Reserve America transaction fee?

kgragert wrote:
"At least we get the old f#@t residence rate"

That's always a Plus. When I first started looking at State parks that was a great surprise.

I've been looking forward to using that 50% discount ever since we decided to move to Florida. I think it will really encourage us to sample lots of the parks, especially in the spring and fall when kids are in school.

NCWriter wrote:

kgragert wrote:
"At least we get the old f#@t residence rate"

That's always a Plus. When I first started looking at State parks that was a great surprise.

I've been looking forward to using that 50% discount ever since we decided to move to Florida. I think it will really encourage us to sample lots of the parks, especially in the spring and fall when kids are in school.

I can hardly wait to become a Aulde Pheart - just to use the discount. What's the age of attainment? 60? 65?

65. I'm 62 and counting the days.
Federal parks are half off at 62 but few Fed parks in Fl.

Maybe I'm a minority of one here, but I find it highly amusing that throughout the world people seem to be perfectly fine with taxes, fees, surcharges, tolls and even the prices of commercial products as long as they're being applied to someone else. But as soon as those costs hit our back pocket we start to complain. Maybe the time to complain was when they were first proposed on others?

I understand there have to be taxes and fees. I don't mind paying for services rendered.
We owned a small beachfront motel for ten years. I had a cancellation fee I charged for last minute cancellation WHEN I COULD NOT RENT THE ROOM.

I never charged anyone if I rented the room.

What irks me about RA is that if I reserve 11 months in advance at a park that is perpetually full, then cancel two months before the reserved date, they charge me $17 and the site will be rented out. Not fair and the rate is too high.

It certainly doesn't cost them $17 to rerent the site.

Big Katuna wrote:
I understand there have to be taxes and fees. I don't mind paying for services rendered.
We owned a small beachfront motel for ten years. I had a cancellation fee I charged for last minute cancellation WHEN I COULD NOT RENT THE ROOM.

I never charged anyone if I rented the room.

What irks me about RA is that if I reserve 11 months in advance at a park that is perpetually full, then cancel two months before the reserved date, they charge me $17 and the site will be rented out. Not fair and the rate is too high.

It certainly doesn't cost them $17 to rerent the site.

Reserve America isn't renting the site; the campground is. Reserve America is just providing the campground with the service of processing reservations. They're more or less the ticketmaster of campgrounds. I note that Ticketmaster and other similar concerns also charge a per-ticket fee for selling you tickets. (I've even seen some venues which charged a shipping and handling fee for tickets that were sent via email and printed at my house on my printer.)

Aren't the Reserve America fees (that you see as a consumer) set by the campground? They do vary from state to state. Presumably a state could simply charge more for a camp site and have no cancelation or reservation fees if they wanted to; maybe some here would prefer that. I suspect part of the goal is to discourage speculative reservations.

Big Katuna wrote:
65. I'm 62 and counting the days.
Federal parks are half off at 62 but few Fed parks in Fl.

Whoo-hoo "only" thirty-six-hundred-and-some-odd days to go 'til G-half qualifies!
(I hope that makes your wait somehow seem more tolerable) ;)

Thanks for the info. Was hoping it was, like, 55 or 60.

1095.