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Where do you and your family take your camping holidays? Luckily there are masses of campsites here at home in the UK as well as in France, Spain, Italy etc, etc. We are spoilt for choice really but at the same time we have to try and second guess what the weather will be like. Of course this is impossible as we found in 2007 (the year of the floods here in UK) when we went to France in the middle of June and it rained every day. No idea how we achieved it but we came home as brown as ever.

Family camping as most of us know it means getting along with each other in a somewhat restricted area. It's great fun for most people and they often repeat the experience when they have a family of their own.

However, it is a sad but true fact that not every family rubs along too well when they spend all their time together as they should on a camping holiday. We've had the dubious "pleasure" of being sited next to a family from Hell once or twice over the years and believe me when I say you that in those circumstances you seriously wish you had stayed at home and boiled your head instead of driving to the port and spending xxx hours on a ferry, driving through France for instance and ending up next door to a family of morons. You believe that the only thing they haven't brought with them is the family Rotweiler which unbeknown to them is most probably just as out of control as their kids and is chewing up the neighbours as you read this.

Of course if you have carted all your own camping gear from the UK you can simply pack up the next morning and move on somewhere else, leaving the moron family and the rest of us mortals to get on with life.

Seriously though, all the above does happen, and when you have booked and paid for a family camping holiday and it is the only one you can afford at the time then you certainly don't want it spoiled by others running amok. If it happens then tell the company Rep who should be able to handle things, but if he or she cannot then go direct to the campsite office and tell them all about it. They have a vested interest in making sure that things run smoothly on their site and they will give your problem family one or maybe two more chances, after which they will be uncerimoniously slung out of the camp if they continue to cause trouble.