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LEAH DRAPER:
RE: PASSPORT AMERICA
I joined them once several years ago, but after a visit to one of the listed places, I dropped my membership as it was a real scuzzie place in which I didn't feel safe at all. For a 50% discount, I felt I wanted to safe 100%, not 50%.
What have you'all found relative to their member listed campgrounds, are they really worth the savings?? Do they give accurate information regarding "big Rigs"?
Richard And Babs Ames:
We tried a book called "Big Rigs Best Bets" and it reviews nicer campgrounds but too limited as the authors stay at each park so skips a lot of nice ones. Trailer Life and Campground reviews and KOA has some nice parks.
Gil_Johnson:
[quote author=]One thing I like about RVparkrevies is that it is collection of acutal camper based reviews and that as such should have no real agenda other than presenting actual experiences. My thinking is that other sources that accept paid advertising may have a conflict of interest posting negative information about a paid advertiser. [/quote]
Don't bank of the reviews coming from actual campers. It could be friends of the owner input ratings to improve their score. It could be competing local CG trying the slam the competitors. It happens. When I use rvparkreviews I put more creditability in reviews from those that have sumitted several ratings. I somethings look at their other ratings to see how critical they rate. So far, rvparkreviews is the best collection of independent ratings I've been able to find.
Joel Weiss:
--- Quote from: LEAH DRAPER ---RE: PASSPORT AMERICA
I joined them once several years ago, but after a visit to one of the listed places, I dropped my membership as it was a real scuzzie place in which I didn't feel safe at all. For a 50% discount, I felt I wanted to safe 100%, not 50%.
What have you'all found relative to their member listed campgrounds, are they really worth the savings?? Do they give accurate information regarding "big Rigs"?
--- End quote ---
We are members of Passport America and have used it enough times in the year to more than pay back the membership fee. I always use RVParkReviews to check out a Passport America CG before bothering to go there. There have been only a couple of times that I read the review and decided definitely not to go to that CG.
Peter and Connie Bradish:
We are life Passport America members. We bought it when it first came out. It was either $275 or $295, I don't remember which. I kept a list at the beginning and stopped when the membership was paid off. We use the membership during the year but only when the CG is somewhere we are going to be. Yes, we have found some undesirable CGs. So we just mark them off in the book and never go back. However, we have found some very good CGs also. It's like any CG reference book, some CGs are good, some not so good. We have found Passport America very useful in Canada especially the Maritimes.
FYI, we averaged just under $20 per night in 2011 for CGs. This does not include rally nights at BAC, FMCA or Escapees rallies. $20/night is a combination of Passport America, dry camping, Elks, Moose, Good Sam discounts, Escapees discounts, friend's places and paying the regular amount per night which seems to be at the $30/night and up.
We do not have Thousand Trails, or any of the membership parks. We looked into them early on but we found that the places we wanted to go didn't have many or enough CGs to make it worthwhile for us to purchase them. Many of our full timing friends have memberships and use them especially in the winter. We have a sticks and bricks home base in Florida so we use this instead.
Hope this helps. Connie B.
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