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Camping for under 18's and same sex parties

Hi there! :biggrin:

So here's my situation. Me and two friends, who are all 15 year olds, and male want to go camping for a few nights to have a laugh after our GCSE's.

Most campsites in Cornwall have a problem with under 18's and/or all male parties. Can anyone help me out here?

Thanks in advance

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Reply 1
I think your options might be; invite some girls, invite an older brother, go camping 'wild' i.e off campsite, or finally, do something else and wait three years to live out this dream. P:
Reply 2
Original post by awe
I think your options might be; invite some girls, invite an older brother, go camping 'wild' i.e off campsite, or finally, do something else and wait three years to live out this dream. P:


Haha, thank's for your suggestion.
Inviting some girls is off the list - probably couldn't get any girls to come with us! (I'm sure someone knows how it is)
An older brother would be kinda awkward for me!

Camping offsite sounds great!

Thanks again.
Reply 3
Original post by UrAverage
Haha, thank's for your suggestion.
Inviting some girls is off the list - probably couldn't get any girls to come with us! (I'm sure someone knows how it is)
An older brother would be kinda awkward for me!

Camping offsite sounds great!

Thanks again.


Sure. Just check up camping laws in the areas you'll be going, a few Googles will do it. Normally, so long as you're not being a nuisance, people won't mind if you're in open air and away from civ. But you could well be asked to move on if you don't pick your spot properly.
Reply 4
What an awesome idea!

You could do what me and a few friends did last year, I was 18 at the time and we headed down south on a couple of mopeds, then we camped anywhere we see fit that was remote enough for us to 'be a bit of a nuisance'. We were respectfully asked to get off a farmers field, but ended up having dinner with him and his family!

So my advise is to go super-tramp for a week and go where the wind takes you, who knows what and who you will meet and you will not regret it!
Don't plan it, just get up and go :biggrin:

either way have fun on your travel.
Reply 5
Thanks everyone!

Wish I could get a bike or something! I'd love to travel but I find traveling hundreds of miles by foot is very painful and takes a lot of time :P
It would be great to travel and camp, but will have to wait that out!

Organizing this camping trip with my friends right now :biggrin:
Reply 6
I think you can stay in YHA's at 15 and some of the large rural ones will let you camp at 16.

YHA's aren't dosshouses full of smelly tramps btw.

http://www.yha.org.uk/
Reply 7
What a great idea, MPCFM!
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Reply 8
Original post by Joinedup
I think you can stay in YHA's at 15 and some of the large rural ones will let you camp at 16.

YHA's aren't dosshouses full of smelly tramps btw.

http://www.yha.org.uk/


YHA sounds nice - do you know what it's like there?
Yeah, just don't pitch up in some random farmer's field, especially if it has livestock in it. It's pretty rude and annoying. No one wants to go to their field and see a pile of random half drunk teenagers in it with some small fire and rubbish lying everywhere. Even if you don't plan on causing a mess, it is their own private land so take that into consideration. I'd go to a forest and camp there/ask around and see if there are any farmers who wouldn't mind :smile:
Reply 10
Original post by UrAverage
Hi there! :biggrin:

So here's my situation. Me and two friends, who are all 15 year olds, and male want to go camping for a few nights to have a laugh after our GCSE's.

Most campsites in Cornwall have a problem with under 18's and/or all male parties. Can anyone help me out here?

Thanks in advance


Your not even at the legal age to do this stuff. Ah **** it. Just do what you want I don't care
Reply 11
Original post by Ryan202
Your not even at the legal age to do this stuff. Ah **** it. Just do what you want I don't care


I think you'll find, if you read the UK laws, you're allowed to travel if you have parental consent at my age. Calm down a bit buddy, it will all be alright.
Reply 12
Original post by UrAverage
I think you'll find, if you read the UK laws, you're allowed to travel if you have parental consent at my age. Calm down a bit buddy, it will all be alright.


Are you blind as a bat? Read the title dip****
Reply 13
Original post by Ryan202
Are you blind as a bat? Read the title dip****


"same sex parties" means "same gender groups". Such as an all male group of people camping, or all female.
Reply 14
Original post by UrAverage
"same sex parties" means "same gender groups". Such as an all male group of people camping, or all female.


why Da*** did you have to mention that in the title?
Reply 15
Original post by Ryan202
why Da*** did you have to mention that in the title?


Because for some reason some campsites have issues with rowdy groups of teenage boys so don't allow all-boy groups?
Original post by Ryan202
why Da*** did you have to mention that in the title?


Because as he said in his post some campsites don't like same sex parties. Go find somewhere else to troll

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Reply 17
Original post by mjohnson29
Because as he said in his post some campsites don't like same sex parties. Go find somewhere else to troll

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Well since when the **** did girls go camping? Camping is a guys thing not some porno movie
Reply 18
Original post by Ryan202
Well since when the **** did girls go camping? Camping is a guys thing not some porno movie


A lot of the time in family holidays. It's unfortunate to see there's people like this wasting their life commenting on a 15 year old's thread.
Reply 19
Original post by UrAverage
A lot of the time in family holidays. It's unfortunate to see there's people like this wasting their life commenting on a 15 year old's thread.


Your in the wrong country for camping, that's your problem.

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