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happy_trails325's avatar
Jun 16, 2017

Musical RV's

Hello,
Wondering if anyone has encountered something such as this:
We have been staying at Lake Pleasant RV Park in Bothell, WA for over a month. We have been shuffled and moved around the park to different spots 14 times!
We were told this used to be a well-run and managed park, but new management has taken over and it is a nightmare. The management in the park does not know how to operate the reservation's software and so, just "wings it". As a result, double-bookings, overbookings, lost reservations and the "musical rv" game ensues.
We must be here due to medical treatment in the area. Can anyone advise? Can anything be done? The owner is on site and knows of the problems in the front office. Yesterday, there was a fight between two RVer's over one spot. I can't believe it and have never encountered anything like this. The entire park is frequently shuffled around to make room for incoming RVer's because someone in the office double booked. Crazy!! We won't be returning to this park.
  • profdant139 wrote:
    We had a similar thing happen at Difficult Campground (no kidding) near Aspen -- the operators could not figure out how to run their software. But that was a forest service campground, with volunteer hosts in their late 70s. (Delightful folks, but not tech savvy.)

    In a private RV park, there is no excuse for this.
    Unless they are going in every couple of days and adding a few days. It is not fair to move around people who already have reservations to accommodate those who travel by the seat of their pants, medical issues or not. How would you feel if the site you reserved was given to someone else and now you are not next to your family, or not near some amenity you requested to be near because someone wanted to add a day to their stay? It is much more complicated then you and the OP make it out to be. Pleasing dozens of people, all with different needs is difficult at best and sometimes impossible.

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