A number of British camp sites are not allowing groups of all males or all female campers primarily because the camp site owners are concerned about how these groups will behave. I can understand this; you only have to look at the headlines of last summer of Brits on tour abroad.
Let’s not forget though that we should not all be labelled reckless, aggressive, drunken Brits.
Planning a frustrating British holiday
I am planning a trip with my 13 year old nephew on the Yorkshire coast during the school holidays, and I’ve yet to find a campsite that will allow us to stay. So, as you can imagine it’s quite frustrating when all you want to do is put up a tent for a few days and relax and spend some time on the beach.
Putting up the barriers
This type of ridiculous rule is why British holidaymakers will continue to take their holiday abroad. Surely, we should be opening our doors to holidaymakers who want to spend the summer at home, rather than putting hurdles in the way.
Isn’t tourism going to help boost our economy and help us get out of the recession?
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Nick | 3 July, 2009 at 9:28 am
Darren
Most have a over 18 rule, if your with a child, ring the campsite inform them and they will normally allow you to stay. It is the same with holiday parks.
Unfortunately a great deal of damage cause by a few ruin for the rest
Darren Cronian | 3 July, 2009 at 9:27 pm
@ Nick
I phoned four camp sites, and when I mentioned it was two males (be one 13 and the other 36) they said that the policy is not to allow single sex groups on the site. Seems daft, and I am sure this isn’t the case with all campsites, well I hope not.
Caitlin | 4 July, 2009 at 1:59 pm
That’s shocking! You’re hardly a stag party. I’m sure this is probably illegal discrimination.
Darren Cronian | 4 July, 2009 at 2:05 pm
@ Caitlin
That’s what I thought. My 13-year old nephew is really well behaved, and well, I am a responsible adult! lol This happened to me once before but this time we had not contacted them in advice.
The campsite allowed us to stay on for 1 night and if no complaints were received then they would let us stay.
Stu Bradley | 4 July, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Darren. It IS discrimination. Against single parents if you take time to follow this stupid rule to its logical conclusion? It’s also among many reasons why the tourist industry in the UK loses out every year (even in a so-called recession) to countries abroad that take a far more pragmatic stance on such issues. Right now, we have a group of three young girls on site. No trouble. I’m expecting a group of bikers travelling down through France and into Spain after the weekend. I know they’ll be no trouble either. It’s about time the UK woke up to the facty that not everyone travels in a family group anymore, and not every group actually wants to get wrecked 24hrs a day and insult their camping neighbours!
Darren Cronian | 5 July, 2009 at 7:18 pm
@ Stu
Thanks for commenting. Yes, I completely agree. At worst you could give people some ‘ground rules’ and they sign them, if they misbehave you throw them off the camping site. Most people when camping act like normal humans.
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Mark H | 23 July, 2009 at 11:20 pm
A single Mum not being allowed to stay with her daughter? Are camp-sites trying to go broke with absurd policies? Any campsite with that policy I would avoid irrespective of the nature of who I was travelling with on principle.
Mark | 30 August, 2009 at 6:50 pm
This isn’t a new ruling. About 20 years ago a friend and I went to Bournemouth for a week camping. We must have tried at least 8 campsites and finally ended up just outside Poole.
Lucy | 16 March, 2010 at 1:18 pm
Did you find a camp site to take you. Im looking for a place on the yorkshire coast to camp fo my self and a couple of old friends. We are 25 year old, responsible adults looking for somewhere quite to stay by the beack, but being all female cant find anywhere. It ridiculous!
Darren Cronian | 16 March, 2010 at 1:47 pm
Lucy, yes we did, I can’t remember the name of the campsite now, but, let me have a look, and I will come back and leave a comment. It was about a 10/15 minute walk from the beach, but near to other amenities.
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