michigansandzilla wrote:
2gypsies wrote:
APT: Overbooking to get a site is in very poor taste and then saying they weren't 'nice' because they hadn't contacted you before giving the site away because you overbooked and didn't show. Doesn't it bother you that you're keeping others from getting a site by overbooking? :(
You've obviously never booked a site in Michigan before at a national or state park. If you don't overbook, you won't get in at all. Not if it's a summer weekend and you want to be remotely close to the water. It is what it is.
We have stayed at many Michigan campgrounds as we lived there for 30 years. We have never overbooked.
We volunteered at Sleeping Bear, Platte River for 9 seasons and I do know how hard it is to get into that park. We've seen kids leaving in tears because they couldn't get a site.
The exact day you overbook someone else is being refused because that site is now 'supposedly' filled. Also, some folks don't even bother to cancel the duplicate reservation and that site sits there until the occupancy period closes then it can be re-sold. In the meantime, someone else would have been happy to have that site.
