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Rice
Explorer III
Jun 09, 2018

Beware sign for $10 RV full hookups on I-10

On I-10 between Palm Springs and San Bernardino (a/k/a the middle of nowhere), there's an RV park right on the interstate with a sign advertising $10 RV full hookups.

I went and said I saw the sign and asked if they had a space for my motorhome for one night, and the woman said it's a membership campground and not open to the public, and I tried to hand me a sheet with a number to call. I said, "So you have a sign on the highway that says full hookup RV sites for $10 but you don't actually offer full hookup RV sites for $10?" She said that's how it is.

So if you're traveling along that stretch and think you're willing to stay in a skanky RV park right on the highway if you can have air conditioning for $10, don't be fooled.
  • Rice's avatar
    Rice
    Explorer III
    Apparently that sign has been there for a long time, so my only goal is to keep people from falling for it. To get to the campground from the freeway you have to take a circuitous route, and I'm trying to save people the trouble.
  • There is a campground between Havasu and Parker with a similar set up. I don't think you would get anywhere notifying BBB or anyone else, the one we saw also had a sign just on the entry drive saying private campground.

    No worth my time complaining.
  • Dutch is correct. Minor modification would make it legal but not moral.
  • Dutch_12078 wrote:
    If they have a higher non-members rate, they might get away with just adding "Start at..." or "...and up." to the sign.


    People sometimes don't "see" everything that is there.

    IF.....the sign really doesn't have any "qualifiers" like that on it, I certainly would at least take a picture of it and report them to the BBB in the area.....if there is one.
  • If they have a higher non-members rate, they might get away with just adding "Start at..." or "...and up." to the sign.
  • Rice wrote:
    On I-10 between Palm Springs and San Bernardino (a/k/a the middle of nowhere), there's an RV park right on the interstate with a sign advertising $10 RV full hookups.

    I went and said I saw the sign and asked if they had a space for my motorhome for one night, and the woman said it's a membership campground and not open to the public, and I tried to hand me a sheet with a number to call. I said, "So you have a sign on the highway that says full hookup RV sites for $10 but you don't actually offer full hookup RV sites for $10?" She said that's how it is.

    So if you're traveling along that stretch and think you're willing to stay in a skanky RV park right on the highway if you can have air conditioning for $10, don't be fooled.


    Report the CG to local news. They love to run FRAUD stories, which have the habit of attracting the attention of the state's Attorney General.

    Misleading is bad. Blatant fraud is a crime. They'll sort out which it is.

    Thanks for the heads up!

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