Fighting for campsites 6 months in advance!
All- Is it me or is booking campsites getting harder and harder? I have spent the last couple weeks trying to book a week in July at Ludington SP in Michigan and it was darn near impossible. Ther...
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This happened last year to my friend at a Deleware State Park. They booked for 4 nights, then decided they wanted to stay an additional 2 nights. The site they were in was booked after the 4, but there was another site available for the 5th night. They moved to the new site for night 5. Nobody occupied the old site night 5. My friend asked if the campground could contact the people with the reservation to inquire if they were planning on coming for night 6, they refused to do that.
Night 6 was "fully booked" so they had to leave, even though there was a spare camp host site. My friend tried to reserve the camp host site, but was told that it wasn't reservable, it had to be held open in case they accidentally overbooked. My friend asked if they could "accidentally" overbook him for night 6 and he would gladly move to the camp host site. They told him that they had no way to overbook (then why have a policy if they do overbook...?)
So they left after the 5th night and went home. The original spot (which was reserved and not available for him to book) was never occupied and after 2 days of no-show the park cancelled the reservation and allowed someone else to come in.
Very frustrating when people game the system. Its people that are only concerned with themselves. The same people that putter along in the passing lane on the highway because they don't care how they affect others, the same people that leave every outdoor light on because they don't care how they affect others, the same people that take 30 minutes to polish their black tanks at the dump station with a line of campers behind them because they don't care how they affect others. I almost wish that I had that ability. My father raised me to be aware and conscientious of other people. Life would be so much easier if I didn't care about my surroundings...
Night 6 was "fully booked" so they had to leave, even though there was a spare camp host site. My friend tried to reserve the camp host site, but was told that it wasn't reservable, it had to be held open in case they accidentally overbooked. My friend asked if they could "accidentally" overbook him for night 6 and he would gladly move to the camp host site. They told him that they had no way to overbook (then why have a policy if they do overbook...?)
So they left after the 5th night and went home. The original spot (which was reserved and not available for him to book) was never occupied and after 2 days of no-show the park cancelled the reservation and allowed someone else to come in.
Very frustrating when people game the system. Its people that are only concerned with themselves. The same people that putter along in the passing lane on the highway because they don't care how they affect others, the same people that leave every outdoor light on because they don't care how they affect others, the same people that take 30 minutes to polish their black tanks at the dump station with a line of campers behind them because they don't care how they affect others. I almost wish that I had that ability. My father raised me to be aware and conscientious of other people. Life would be so much easier if I didn't care about my surroundings...
