How do I rate campgrounds?

juice0000 wrote:
Does Good Sam use rvparks reviews for their ratings?

No, their ratings are compiled by reviewers who are employed by Good Sam. The rating criteria is very steeply slanted to objective items, meaning they give points for having certain things, not how good those things are. For example, a pool gets you a point. It can be a pool not much bigger than a small child's wading pool or it could be an Olympic sized water park, same score. No pool, your first score of the three will be one point lower than an identical park with a pool. The scoring worksheet is in the Good Sam guidebook and also can be found online. Like any review system it has it's strengths and weaknesses. Since it is objective, personal preferences of the reviewers don't effect the scores very much. On the other hand a park with a crappy swingset, a tiny pool, in a sketchy neighborhood and a utilities that barely function might have a much higher score than a pristine park with brand new utilities in a resort setting that chose not to have a swingset and pool. There is no system that would work for everyone.