Alabama State Park reservation system is awful
I gave up trying to find a period to schedule a visit to Gulf State Park Campground, online.
Being retired, I'm pretty flexible as to when I could go. I was just looking for a week or so in April or May, that would not interfere with families with school children.
After spending about an hour online, I thought I might have better luck by calling an agent on the phone. I was told that I had to give her a specific date of arrival and length of stay. I began spewing out dates but none had that many days available. I then said that I would accept two consecutive periods that would add up to 6 or 7 days by changing sites during my stay. That was even more difficult to search out. You can spend hours online or on the phone with an agent to accomplish something you can do on Reserve America in 5 minutes.
Comparing this to Florida Parks or COE parks, you can look at a park, see the list of vacancies by date and advance week to week until you find what you want.
The Alabama system looks like they paid someone back in the '90s to design the worst possible system they could come up with.
Being retired, I'm pretty flexible as to when I could go. I was just looking for a week or so in April or May, that would not interfere with families with school children.
After spending about an hour online, I thought I might have better luck by calling an agent on the phone. I was told that I had to give her a specific date of arrival and length of stay. I began spewing out dates but none had that many days available. I then said that I would accept two consecutive periods that would add up to 6 or 7 days by changing sites during my stay. That was even more difficult to search out. You can spend hours online or on the phone with an agent to accomplish something you can do on Reserve America in 5 minutes.
Comparing this to Florida Parks or COE parks, you can look at a park, see the list of vacancies by date and advance week to week until you find what you want.
The Alabama system looks like they paid someone back in the '90s to design the worst possible system they could come up with.
