Price increase at our KOA
Every year at the end of our season we make our reservations for the following year. In that reservation is a listed price. Well, this off season the KOA was sold to new owners and I was notified th...
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Super_Dave wrote:agesilaus wrote:
There must be some corporate standards, possibly not about contracts and customer relations, but I see a number of ex-KOAs around the country and they got the boot for something. Customer complaints may start their slide on the way out.
If they are still a campground, what might be happening is after a few years the owner is tired of KOA corporate dipping into their pocket and dictating how things are run. They can use the KOA advertising and eventually separate themselves from the corporate chain.
From reading reviews online in almost every case when a campground was formerly a jellystone or KOA it was not the franchisee choosing to end the relationship, it was the campground being run into the ground and not meeting standards and getting too many complaints. Then generally a few years later they sell the place and a new owner takes over, the place has such a poor reputation that they have to rename again to start clean with things like online reviews. I've seen that pattern probably 20 times when researching places to stay.
