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Re: RV PARK DEPOSITS ON RESERVATIONS

Reply #25 –
Yahoo Message Number: 63892

Nah, not even close George. But good point.
Let's start a thread on the morality of staying in WalMarts and other freebie places and stealing the bread from the CG owners' mouths.

Bob (rthandren@...)
'05 Inspire 51178

Re: RV PARK DEPOSITS ON RESERVATIONS

Reply #26 –
Yahoo Message Number: 63902
George...........At least the PTO issue was relevant to owning a CC. But this??!!............

Dave Trotter

01 Intrigue 11215

Methods to circumvent RESERVATION DEPOSIT problems

Reply #27 –
Yahoo Message Number: 63978
I agree Lee. As an old truck driver, I rarely use enroute RV parks, preferring to stop in rest stops, or the back corner of truck stops, out of traffic. It is unnerving to have multi-ton trucks maneuvering around you all night, if you have not been there, done that. And there was that one snowy night in New Mexico when a newbie backed his trailer about eight feet into my cab......... Luckily not in my coach, but a company tractor. Pick where you park carefully.
I think the deposit question could be easily cleared up if the word "nonrefundable" was up front and not in question. That way you could agree or not up front, no hard feelings.
In addition to Lee's book, Escapees has a "Day's End" group on Yahoo that has a LOT of free or nearly free places to stop. First subscription is (was?) $5.00 a year, then you get $5.00 subscription credit for each location you add to the list. My subscription is good for many years free now. They even have a neat overlay for a GPS program that will put the locations on your GPS map. I did mine on my computer where I do route planning with Delorme. I think other GPS devices are supported also.

Jack Nichols, 2003 Intrigue 11527
 

Re: RV PARK DEPOSITS ON RESERVATIONS

Reply #28 –
Yahoo Message Number: 64036

From: Lee Zaborowski

To: Country-Coach-Owners@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sun, September 26, 2010 3:07:13 PM Subject: Re: [Country-Coach-Owners] Re:RV PARK DEPOSITS ON RESERVATIONS

This is an interesting thread. While it would be nice to influence in a significant way, the business practices of those many thousands of RV park small businesses, we can't. My DW and I have had similar problems and have taken some practical steps.
We rarely reserve and only reserve ahead when intuition tells us RV sites will be dear, like on a Friday/Weekend, near a town of some size, or close to a popular tourist destination. Otherwise, around midday, when we are beginning to get an idea of where we might stop for the evening/night, Jeanne will call likely camps. As you all must know, there is an RV park in about every town in the country, and a few in between each town. If the first camp called is full, there will be another a few miles down the road. We have never been skunked. This approach has worked well for us for years.
We soon started trying more and more public campgrounds, run by local, state and federal governments. We have found these park employees to be honest, helpful, and customer service oriented. Since these are government employees I think they are comfortable in what they do and want to keep their jobs. And yes, this has worked so well for us, I wrote a book about some of these campgrounds, there are over 11,000 of them across the US.
My intent here is to share another way to minimize experiences with neferious RV camp personnel, though I suspect some of you will consider this post an ad. I don't, I'm just trying to share another way to deal with the threat topic. My other point is that we have never gotten screwed on a reservation at a public campground. Finally, in my experiences the reservation rules for public campgrounds are always stated clearly up front.

Lee Zaborowski

07 Intrigue 12153, Cat C-13

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