This place was a TOTAL nightmare. Families BEWARE. We plan an annual family camping trip each year…read moreto see different parts of Ontario with my 6 yr old son. This year we had chosen Sandbanks Beach. In early Spring 2013, since we could not book in the Provincial Park, we took a chance on this private campsite that promised to be a quiet, family oriented park with a list of zero tolerance policies. We arrived Friday August 22nd to set-up our tent trailer and enjoyed a fantastic day in a very clean, scenic park. Beside us were a young, seemingly quiet couple enjoying some tenting. (so it seemed) Around 10 PM that first night a group of approx. 8 other twenty something couples with tents joined the group next to us. As they unpacked i noticed 2 large bottles of liquor. i have no issue with people having a few drinks while they enjoying camping if they abide by park rules and respect others around them. So from about 10 PM until 2-3 AM in the morning we were subjected to loud laughing, talking, clinking of glasses, car doors slamming continuously, and banging from them splitting wood. Two people from our group, at separate times in the middle of the night got up and went over to ask the campers to keep the noise down because it was making it impossible for us to sleep. This just resulted in more noise and more car door slamming. Since the parks quiet time rules were 10PM to 8AM, we reported the incident to the "NEW HOSTS" and asked them to speak to the group about the noise so we didn't have another sleepless night on Saturday. The male host returned to us after speaking with the group and told us he had asked them to leave and would refund our first night for the inconvenience. It was not our intention for him to evict them just to make sure they understood the park rules. We got about 4 hours of broken sleep after a long day of travelling to this campground the 1st night. After this discussion between the host and the campers, they began taunting us. About 1 hour later the female host drove up to our site and told me she was very sorry for the trouble the night before. I asked her if the group would be leaving because at this point we were afraid to leave our stuff to start touring around Picton. She said they were expected to leave within 10 minutes and she was going to get the male host to ensure they were gone. We decided to go ahead with our plans while they sorted it out. We returned later that day, around 4:30 to find that they group was still there and now there was an additional 30 + people with them. We were surrounded by these people taunting and tormenting us, setting off there car alarms and making comments about how they were going to party all night. Two females from the group walked by our camp, double fisted with drinks and looked right at me and made reference to how they were "going to party". I was passed the point of annoyed at this point and said it's clear where your kids got there respect for others. At this point we had given up any hope that the "HOSTS" were actually planning to do anything about it. We decided to tough it out so we could go to Sandbanks the next day, then leave a day early. Since this campsite is wide open with no privacy. I moved my vehicle to provide some shelter and my mother put up towels along the back of our dining tent to shield us from the tormenters. Shortly after this altercation between myself and the older female in this group, the "hosts" arrived at our site and said they wanted to speak to the females in our group because she received a complaint that we were being abusive. We tried to explain what had been going on with the taunting, the car horns, etc. then all of a sudden the male host exploded and began screaming in our face for us and the tenters beside us to pack our stuff and get out in 15 minutes or he was calling the police??? This man terrified my son, who jumped in my car in tears. He also stated he would give us a full refund. At this point we did not care to fight back with someone who was obviously not reasonable and had lied to us all day which contributed to this nightmare. We were a powerless group of 5 against 40+, mostly intoxicated, disrespectful people whose only purpose that day was making our lives miserable for complaining about the noise the night before. Our only crime was asking the "New Hosts" to enforce their quiet policy so we could get some sleep that night. Needless to say, we packed our tent trailer, dining tent, and were forced to drive for 4 hours in the late evening back home after failing to find anywhere to stay enroute. As we left, I took my 6 year old son to the toilet. As we were heading back to my car the male host gave us the middle finger which he later denied. Sadly, this will be the last time we ever stay in a private campground. It's just too risky. We have never had an issues when staying at a Provincial campground. So if you like to party this appears to be the spot regardless that there are rules!
