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how do you find a decent site to stay in?
George Gaston:
After using Good Sam, Woodall's and any other available sources I go to Google Earth. All you need to do is put in the address of the campground of your choice and Google Earth flies you right to the CG.
This allows you to see the CG lay-out, Closeness of sites and what the landscaping is like. Sometime you can even tell what type of RV's are in the CG. You can also see the access roads and get an idea of what route to the CG is best.
It's a lot better than looking at pictures on the CG's web site that are usually just pictures of people having fun or sugar coated pictures of the best sites.
Hope this helps.
George Gaston
Larry Fisk:
We use a book called Big Rig Best Bets. It usually leads us to RV Parks that are at least acceptable. We have also discovered some really nice parks thru this book.
JimDyer:
We tend to do a one campground/three nights at Walmart or Flying J rotation while travelling, so we have just been lazy and used the KOA book to find a good spot, especially since we tend to be pushing the date envelope for the locations we want. This week we threw the KOA book out and said "never, ever, never no more" after being charged $41.80 and then discovering the blasted place had neither water or sewer, and our promised 50 amp site had only 30 amp connections. That's when we discovered that KOA allows campgrounds without the basic services in their system and their book makes no mention of whether or not it has any services!
Joel Weiss:
[quote author=]We tend to do a one campground/three nights at Walmart or Flying J rotation while travelling, so we have just been lazy and used the KOA book to find a good spot, especially since we tend to be pushing the date envelope for the locations we want. This week we threw the KOA book out and said "never, ever, never no more" after being charged $41.80 and then discovering the blasted place had neither water or sewer, and our promised 50 amp site had only 30 amp connections. That's when we discovered that KOA allows campgrounds without the basic services in their system and their book makes no mention of whether or not it has any services![/quote]
Jim:
When we book KOA's we always do it online and have never had an issue with the site being what was reserved. I would be interested in knowing which KOA you had this problem with since we have never encountered one that didn't have the capability for full hookups, let alone not even having water and sewer. We stayed at a pretty "basic" one in Laramie WY this summer, but even it had full hookups.
Joel
JimDyer:
Delaware Water Gap, East Stroudsberg, PA
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