Resort Fees

mileshuff wrote:
State parks in AZ often do have a fee as you say but its included in the camp fee for those staying the night. The fee is only paid for day users to the park which makes sense.

Well, tell that to Texas, where the per-person per-day fee is in addition to the camping fee.

W4RLR wrote:

magnusfide wrote:
Hmmmm: resort fees.
Nope, never paid any and won't pay any. Another reason we like state parks. :w

Then don't go to an Alabama State Park. They just recently started charging "resort fees" for many of their campgrounds, especially those in places that are heavily used and popular with RVers. Here is an example Three percent daily resort fee and $4 per site fee at Lake Guntersville State Park. It's a backdoor way of raising revenue that I think will soon be the norm nationwide as states cut funding for parks and campgrounds.

The resort fee being a percentage of the site fee means that monthly campers will pay less for resort "privileges" per day than daily campers, and weekly campers will pay less per day than daily campers. And people in full hookup sites will pay more for the resort fee than people in electric-and-water sites, even though presumably the people in full hookup sites will not be using the bathroom facilities as much.

Are they prohibited from just raising the price? Because on a $25 site, the 3% is 75 cents. They could raise the site fee to $26, making an extra 25 cents per night over the "resort fee" AND people would think, "Gosh, that's nice--they raised the site fee by only $1 instead of jumping from $25 to $30." Instead, they're giving people something to complain about.

But look what you get at this campground/resort--the big, private sites that are so prevalent in state parks: