Reservations - 5 to 7 day minimum??
We are starting to make reservations for our end of July first of August trip in New England. This year we are encountering many campgrounds responding that they are now only accepting 5 to 7 day (...
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looking at it from a business point of view,,,, if you can,,, do it
alot of parks around here can be less than 50% capacity during the week, all the weekend warriors fill the park for 2 days via reservations, and then as the people who want a 5 6 7 or more day stay (that goes over a weekend) can't get in because the park is swamped for 2 nights of the week, so ya I can see why some parks would focus on catering to longer stay clients.
I have even written to our provincial park system in their suggestion thing email, about reforming the reservation system to take 3 night or less reservations and make them a "guaranteed reservation" not a "site specific", to allow them to shuffle people on sites (before they arrive) to maximize the possibilities of long stay campers of getting a site.
I have in the past tried to reserve for a week and had to go through allot of effort and extra expense (reservation fee) coupled with an in park move midway through my stay just to get a spot in a park
alot of parks around here can be less than 50% capacity during the week, all the weekend warriors fill the park for 2 days via reservations, and then as the people who want a 5 6 7 or more day stay (that goes over a weekend) can't get in because the park is swamped for 2 nights of the week, so ya I can see why some parks would focus on catering to longer stay clients.
I have even written to our provincial park system in their suggestion thing email, about reforming the reservation system to take 3 night or less reservations and make them a "guaranteed reservation" not a "site specific", to allow them to shuffle people on sites (before they arrive) to maximize the possibilities of long stay campers of getting a site.
I have in the past tried to reserve for a week and had to go through allot of effort and extra expense (reservation fee) coupled with an in park move midway through my stay just to get a spot in a park
