Candy Hill Winchester Va

It sounds like typical Virginia to me. You have no idea of the relief I feel when I go camping out of state.

Bruce

nomad297 wrote:
It sounds like typical Virginia to me. You have no idea of the relief I feel when I go camping out of state.

Bruce

I won't blame it on the entire state of VA. Va has many nice CG's and state parks. However Candy Hill is not one of them.
Their real problem is they have too many rules. There are other CG's with this mentality. Morris Meadows in MD comes to mind.
They have too many rules and attempt to enforce the all.
Common sense never supersedes their rules.
The idea that you can't pick up people in a rainstorm without paying is silly.

We go to several of the same Virginia Camp grounds and State Parks within a couple hundreds miles around here. They all have their rules but have really never run into any major problems. Maybe it is because we are return visitors???

When we have family visitors coming out to see us we usually leave their names at the gate and they come on in without any problems.

Same thing with all the gated communities around here.

Roy Ken

In our 51 years of RV'ing, Candy Hill in Winchester VA was the worst experience by far we had ever encountered. Beyond rude and simply vulgar language and actions by the manager every time he came around with his golf cart. Smelled strong of alcohol stench and cussed a blue streak. 4 of us who are retired in 2 rigs sitting by the fire after dinner with NO alcohol at all and talking quietly when planning our next day's travel on our way back from Maine after visiting Washington DC for 2 days.

We were in the upper part of the CG all alone with not one other RV within 4 sites on either side and he comes up on his golf cart and starts screaming and cussing that we were to put out the fire out and get in our RV's or packup and get out. Asking why and he said we were talking and it's beyond their quiet time rules. Yes, we'd reported it to RV Review and have told many others who many said thay also had bad experiences there.

The real way to correct the issue is to never stay there and tell everyone and other RV'ers what it's actually like in print and by voice and starve the place until it closes. We've done our part and will continue to do so!

I had a good experience when I stayed at Candy Hill. As for charging for visitors a number of campgrounds do that. The good reason is for security but I suspect the real reason is for revenue. Anyway I'm sorry that you had issues there.

mikebreeze wrote:
I had a good experience when I stayed at Candy Hill. As for charging for visitors a number of campgrounds do that. The good reason is for security but I suspect the real reason is for revenue. Anyway I'm sorry that you had issues there.

I have no issue with charging for visitors. But charging to pull up and pick them up in a heavy downpour is irrational and defies common sense.
Maybe if it were a nice day the group could just meet at the gate.
But in a downpour it should be OK to use common sense.

Exactly! The best way to eliminate and eradicate a "blood sucker" and eliminating them from having offsprings popping up all around is to deprive them of your "blood". In this case your money! They'll simply vanish and it doesn't take decades to happen either as so many have seen it happen!

They had a line of campers on their tiny road, so it was three. Ido not have an issue paying if I am staying but picking people up is just wrong.

travelnutz wrote:
In our 51 years of RV'ing, Candy Hill in Winchester VA was the worst experience by far we had ever encountered. Beyond rude and simply vulgar language and actions by the manager every time he came around with his golf cart. Smelled strong of alcohol stench and cussed a blue streak. 4 of us who are retired in 2 rigs sitting by the fire after dinner with NO alcohol at all and talking quietly when planning our next day's travel on our way back from Maine after visiting Washington DC for 2 days.

We were in the upper part of the CG all alone with not one other RV within 4 sites on either side and he comes up on his golf cart and starts screaming and cussing that we were to put out the fire out and get in our RV's or packup and get out. Asking why and he said we were talking and it's beyond their quiet time rules. Yes, we'd reported it to RV Review and have told many others who many said thay also had bad experiences there.

The real way to correct the issue is to never stay there and tell everyone and other RV'ers what it's actually like in print and by voice and starve the place until it closes. We've done our part and will continue to do so!

RVers also like to look for reviews at TripAdvisor. You can help speed the starvation process by posting a review over there as Trip Advisor has a huge following. Here's Candy Hill's page link at TripAdvisor and it looks like you're not alone in your assessment.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g58318-d3295982-Reviews-Candy_Hill_Campground-Winchester_Virginia.html

nomad297 wrote:
It sounds like typical Virginia to me. You have no idea of the relief I feel when I go camping out of state.

We've had very pleasant experiences with folks in SW Virginia.