Are we having an early snowbird season?
We just returned from Gulfport Miss and the park was crowded but not full of snowbirds. It also seems earlier than normal.
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pawatt wrote:
TomG2 wrote:
pawatt wrote:
Yes, our Canadian numbers are way down here in the Rio Grande Valley.
Pretty big generalization. Our park has a record number of Quebec license plates with a good mix from the other provinces.
Cool weather up north had Route 281 flooded with southbound traffic yesterday and last evening.
But isn't your park accepting Canadian dollars on par with US dollars. Circle T Park is and has attracted a large number of Canadians.
They stopped the exchange thing. We are fully booked for January for the first time in years with many Canadians included. I just question that "Canadian numbers are way down" as a general statement. I have no idea if that is true in all parks or not. It is not the case in this park. You may have more statistics at hand than I do.- The park I'm in just raised their rates for 2018 by $125 so I'm not sure how good my observations are, but. I can count on both hands how many Canadian plates I can see (easily) when I go for a walk.
We took three weeks to come south this year, parks along the way seemed to have the normal amount of campers given the time of year and the route we took.
To the OP, Gulfport MS isn't really a huge long term snowbird area. Many will use that upper Gulf coast area in November/December and then again in March/April/May. What you're seeing could be the end of the "flying flock" for that time of year heading further south for warmer temps. TomG2 wrote:
pawatt wrote:
Yes, our Canadian numbers are way down here in the Rio Grande Valley.
Pretty big generalization. Our park has a record number of Quebec license plates with a good mix from the other provinces.
Cool weather up north had Route 281 flooded with southbound traffic yesterday and last evening.
But isn't your park accepting Canadian dollars on par with US dollars. Circle T Park is and has attracted a large number of Canadians.pawatt wrote:
Yes, our Canadian numbers are way down here in the Rio Grande Valley.
Pretty big generalization. Our park has a record number of Quebec license plates with a good mix from the other provinces.
Cool weather up north had Route 281 flooded with southbound traffic yesterday and last evening.- 360,000 boomers retired this year. Quite a few have purchased RV's and heading South for the first time. Not another winter in the snow and zero temps, it's sunshine and beaches for them.
- Yes, our Canadian numbers are way down here in the Rio Grande Valley.
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many Canadians are missing here in South Texas.. - Maybe over there in the east or midwest, but the last 3 months, as I slowly worked my way south from eastern Oregon to Baja Mexico, I did not see any over crowding of RV parks. In fact, I thought I'd missed some bad news somewhere about RV'ing or that would affect RV'ing.
And here in Mexico, this park was crowded last winter, this year, practically empty. And no flurry of bad news this year that I'm aware of. - As I remember, a year ago there was a massive decline in Canadian Snowbirds because of the exchange rate in currency. Many Canadians opted to remain "North" last season. Maybe this year the currency strength has improved so they are able to travel South again and are doing so earlier too!
I do know, the American perception (real or not, the "perception" is good) of the economy in the USA has improved, so consumer confidence is up. As a result, people are more mobile this year than last too. - The normal is earlier than normal I hear.
