Paying for electricity

We have been snow birds for 15 years here in Florida and have paid for metered electricity since day one. This year we are lucky enough to start paying for our water! According to the Manager all Sun Community Parks are installing water meters.

I stayed for a couple days at a small independent campground in Pennsylvania a couple years ago. At Chek Inn, they told us it was an extra two dollars per night if we wanted to use our air conditioning. It was hot, so I said OK and paid up the extra six dollars for the three nights. As soon as we got our site set up, I switched on the air conditioning and immediately noticed it did not sound right. I took out my digital multimeter from my truck and found 98 Volts At the 20 amp outlet in the pedestal while my trailer was running off of the 30 amp plug. Pretty full campground... One of the young man that worked for the campground saw me, came over and apologized, explaining it’s a very old campground with a very old electric service. We made it Through that weekend without using the air-conditioner, but it wasn’t pleasant.

We will be staying long term next winter and just booked our stay. For the first time for us, Electricity will be an extra charge and metered. The woman on the phone said something interesting when explaining things to me. She said "most people instead of writing down the reading, take a picture with their phone of the meter each month and bring it in". I thought that was an awesome idea. That way you have a visual record and what we plan on doing.

A couple campgrounds we've been to had an extra charge if you were going to use your air conditioner. That seems to have faded away a bit - the last time we were at campground that used to do that, the manager said they had upgraded their electric grid and just raised rates a bit.

Otherwise, at most campgrounds we've been to the seasonal sites have individual electric meters.

More common than not just about everywhere for monthly/seasonal sites.

Short term, you typically pay much more per night and they typically include it as it's a lot of hassle to check the usage before & after a stay.

you are paying for the electricity whether they meter it or prorate in to your daily or weekly bill.just seems to sting a little more when they hand you a bill for it

It seems its usually metered when staying monthly. I was boondocking out in the sticks and got water at an RV park that runs on an 85kw diesel generator. Monthly spot $250 plus .33 kw!!! Never cheap to run on generator.

Metered.

None and never done long term or storage.

When charged, is it flat fee or metered?