Membership Parks-Thousand Trails,,,,Escapees etc

Escapees parks are not "membership parks." Escapees is an RV club with many benefits for members other than staying at their parks. (We use Escapees for our legal domicile and mail forwarding service). The club has two kinds of parks: 1) Rainbow parks - normal "come and go" parks where Escapees members stay for extremely low rates; and 2) co-op parks where one buys into a co-op (cost depends on the park location and amenities and ranges from around $10,000 to a little over $30,000). With the co-op parks, you are assigned a "permanent" space but do not own a deeded lot. There are many advantages to this setup. The club also offers discounts at a network of commercial parks across the country that do not belong to the club. The discounts are typically 5 - 10%. As you can see, this is quite different from Thousand Trails. We are also members of Passport America and use it whenever possible. PA stays usually save us 50%, but are sometimes limited to two or three nights or restricted to weekday nights. A good deal, though, considering the low cost of joining. Personally, I would not consider Thousand Trails and it would not work for us.

Rob