Campground Amenities vs lower prices
Spin off from price thread. Which do you prefer? Lower cg rates with just basic FHU and clean bath houses? Or are you willing to pay higher rates for amenities (and the accompanying insurance...
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westernrvparkowner wrote:travelnutz wrote:
westernrvparkowner,
You are so right in most of your post but why charge the RV'er for your added amenities when there's no chance they would ever want, use, or need them? I'm glad your parks are doing well but that's not the norm for most. No way will we or perhaps the majority of RV'ers subsidize the cost of an RV park having unwanted amenities as you can clearly see by reading this thread alone and for us being in our 51st year of RV'ing now. It's merely an income and cost shifting scheme (income re-disposition) and the smart RV'ers see right thru that and so many potential high profit RV guests/owners will stay far away from these backdoor tatics.
I sure wish you would give me an example of an unwanted and unused amenity. Every amenity at my park gets used by some of the guests, and I doubt any amenity gets used by them all. And how are you going to charge for things like using the restrooms and showers (not needed by every guest), the sewer connections, the power, the cable TV, the pool, the dog parks, the playgrounds and everything else parks add to attract customers? Amenities are like park rules, there are always one or two people don't feel they need or use, it is just different for each guest. Personally, I don't like the a la carte method of pricing. Apparently that is the system your parks choose, which is fine. But I see enough KOA = Keep on Adding posts to steer clear. And my pricing structure is exactly what you say it is, an income re-distribution scheme. I am attempting to redistribute some of your income and make it into my income. And I see nothing immoral , unethical or criminal about it.
I think you should admit WRVPO that you have a built in bias in this argument. Additionally so many people saying they just want cheaper prices reflects, I believe, the vast majority of those that RV for more than just a few weekends a year or for that once a year vacation. This does not bode well for your industry...unless some parks get ahead of this curve and find out what people really want.
