I love planning our route and campgrounds. I spend lots of time looking at maps and reading about places. I have folders full of information I have pulled from magazines and I have lots of books about different areas. Good reviews on rvparkreviews is a requirement for any campground. And of course I spend time on the web doing research. I even occasionally ask Lee what he would like to do and see. So far I’ve been happy with our routes and the campgrounds we’ve chosen. We’ve enjoyed all the sights we’ve seen and the people we’ve met.
There has only been one problem…the site within the campground. Getting the RIGHT site seems to be an issue for me. Since we like to stay at least four nights and often longer, the site is important.
Once in Kentucky we were planning on staying just one night and as we were in a hurry, we told them we did not want to unhook, so please give us a level pull-through close to the entrance. (I always explain why and say Please ) Well they put us in the farthest row and the most unlevel site. We tried several sites in the row and none were close to level. We called and asked if they had another possibility. This time someone else talked to me and she happily told us a different site…easy in, easy out, and perfectly level. Why?
We planned on staying for a month in a California campground and so asked to be near other people who would be here for a while as well. So we were put in the back section with a long term camper on one side of us and one behind us. I have nothing against long term, but these were parked there and the people were off site for months at a time. No one to visit with there!
So now here we are in Charleston and again I said that we like people and would like to be near some other campers:
Somehow I am NOT communicating very well!
What do you ask for when you arrive at a campground and how well is it working for you?
ps…after I wrote this a lovely couple moved into a site behind us. It was nice having someone to talk with for a day!
4 comments:
That's a tough one to answer. If only for a night, I ask for a pull-through. Haven't run into terribly uneven sites.
Unlike you, my preference is for as few as possible people around me, so I would just love the site you have now.
Other than my volunteers stints, I've seldom stayed in a campground for more than a night or two, and have found only a few that were not bearable. That's not to say that I haven't on occasion pulled into and place, and pulled right out again. If I don't feel comfortable, I move on down the road.
We really don't care which site we get as long as it's level and hopefully a pull thru. I don't care if we have other people to interact with or not. So I'm no help to you.
Well, sometimes the longest rvs get the biggest sites including the widest. Traveling with a trailer has given us some great sites even though we can disconnect. I guess we're all subject to what the person at the desk wants to give us.
I usually don't make any request as to which site. I'm exhausted after doing all the research just to find the park we want. If they put us in site we hate I usually just go see if there is anything else available.
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