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IAMICHABOD
Sep 29, 2013Explorer II
NanciL wrote:
Hmmmm !
We get two week stays at the various state parks.Then we cancel a day or two here and there and give up a stay,
Jack L
I think that is a big reason that people cant get the reservations that they want. People reserve more than they can use then cancel days before to get their money back and pay a paltry cancelation fee for them, thus denying others.
I was in a park up north from me that was sold out but was only 1/3 occupied. I asked the ranger and he said that it was common thing.
Empty sites and no money for them and they cant rent them because they have not been released from Reserve America. People just pay $10 cancelation fee.
I think that Reserve America could do one of two things. Charge the price of one day for a cancelation, as many private campgrounds do, that may stop some of it.
Or, not let a person that has an account, which you have to have to use the system, reserve more than one campground on the same dates or overlapping dates.
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