For the first time the other day I got the feeling I was given an inferior site using PA. It was at Lakeside Casino, Pahrump NV. The person in front of me was back at the office saying they didn't want the assigned site. He was in large class A. They gave me the site he didn't want, it was a diagonal pull thru but the diagonal was backwards to the traffic flow. With my small C I had no problems with it. He was relocated on that row of sites-a row which was completely full at dusk, while much more desirable sites near the lake were empty. I was fine with the whole thing at $16. per night. I do wonder if they would have given PA rate if I had requested a lakefront site.
At Pechanga, they have always given me a choice of sites under PA. I've had what I thought were some of the most desirable-such as backing up to the creek on the south side of the park.
Most of the time, the parks I've used PA were so empty due to off season midweek that it looked like they were happy to just have a live one in there.