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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Even if I had the space to have no hookup sites that I could sell for half the price of the full hookup sites, I wouldn't do it. First, it would probably cost me money. For every person I would get who wouldn't have stayed otherwise, I would probably have two who would have paid the full hookup price opt for the cheap site instead. That means revenues go down not up. There really isn't that many people looking to pay for no hookups. There are too many Walmarts, casinos, city parks, state parks, national parks, boondocking areas etc. where they can stay for free with no amenities, so why would they pay?
Then there is the fact I don't want to be associated with a no hookup park. I don't want to deal with generators. With people wanting to dump, wanting to fill with water. I don't want to police the restrooms, the common areas, the playgrounds, the mini golf courses and the like. I like my parks to be the absolute best they can be and a field for dry camping doesn't fit my image of what I want. I am perfectly fine with someone else offering that service. And if it eventually runs me into bankruptcy, I guess I go bankrupt. But I sure haven't seen an evidence that people really want to park in no hookup fields and only pay my rates because that is all that is available. I see quite the opposite, people praising the facilities and returning time and time again. Maybe the issue isn't that there isn't a market for my kind of park, it is my kind of park doesn't appeal to people who post on RV.net. This year I'll have 40,000 or so camper nights of people who feel what I do does work.
Then there is the fact I don't want to be associated with a no hookup park. I don't want to deal with generators. With people wanting to dump, wanting to fill with water. I don't want to police the restrooms, the common areas, the playgrounds, the mini golf courses and the like. I like my parks to be the absolute best they can be and a field for dry camping doesn't fit my image of what I want. I am perfectly fine with someone else offering that service. And if it eventually runs me into bankruptcy, I guess I go bankrupt. But I sure haven't seen an evidence that people really want to park in no hookup fields and only pay my rates because that is all that is available. I see quite the opposite, people praising the facilities and returning time and time again. Maybe the issue isn't that there isn't a market for my kind of park, it is my kind of park doesn't appeal to people who post on RV.net. This year I'll have 40,000 or so camper nights of people who feel what I do does work.
