Passport America
I kept seeing Passport America mentioned here on the forum so I looked it up and it seems too good to be true. I don't understand how they can do half off full hookup sites for only $44 a year. I w...
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LittleRed586 wrote:
I don't understand how they can do half off full hookup sites for only $44 a year.
Passport America is just a listing service that maintains a directory and a membership. None of the PA dues goes back to the RV park. I thing, but am not certain, that the RV park pays a little money to PA to be in their directory.
In 2015 we traveled from Texas to Fort Lauderdale / Key West to Connecticut. We volunteered with the US COE in Connecticut from Apr 15 to Oct 14. Then back at o Texas.
On those travels we stayed 8 nights at 4 Passport America parks in Florida (2), North Carolina and Tennessee. We stayed 48 nights at military base campgrounds in Texas (3 bases), Florida (2 bases), South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.
We stayed at COE and USFS campgrounds for half price in Texas, North Carolina, Vermont Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Arkansas.
We stayed at Escapees parks in Alabama and Florida.
The only place we paid "full price" were state parks in Mississippi and Louisiana, Broward County parks near Fort Lauderdale (the most expensive places we have ever visited) and Good Sam state rally's in Georgia, New Hampshire and Maine.
We did spend a month at a commercial RV park in southwest Arkansas for a monthly rate of $450 which included electric as my dad was dying and to help with his estate after he passed.
There are a lot of ways a person / couple can save money off the posted rates.
Passport America is a very good program, but I doubt you are going to do more than a couple / three dozen nights at PA parks/ rates in a year.
