Slide-Outs @ Walmart

Opie431 wrote:
When you ask for permission to spend the night they should tell you if slides are allowed.

you should ask
bumpy

When you ask for permission to spend the night they should tell you if slides are allowed.

Exactly!!!

superrayzor wrote:
I see mixed reviews/thoughts on this.

I am considering my first Walmart overnight stay on this trip, will definitely call ahead.

With 6 people at night, the RV is almost unusable without putting out the slideouts. I can't jackknife the sofa, and the bunks are mostly closed off.

I'm not looking to camp, just park, run in for supplies, eat, sleep, and then head out early in the morning.

We do it all the time - Slides out - jacks down. I've gone into many a Wal*Mart to ask/talk with the Manager and the only thing's I've ever heard is positive - "don't park on the left side , the delivery trucks come in at 4 and will wake you up". Or " Park over by the Stormwater Management Pond - Quiet and out of the way".

The BS about not using the slide out and not using the jacks is just that, BS, Wal*Mart has invited you/us and they have welcomed us with open arms. Don't leave a mess and Do ask for permission.

Enjoy the trip and enjoy your Local Wal*Mart.

JMHO,

On Edit; After reading the other posts, couple things I'd like to mention - First "Most Wal*Mart's have security" so my wife and I feel fine staying in the Parking Lot. All Wal*Marts have Lights and a clear area to drive in - story is about friend in his brand New Essex - wife said NO to Wal*Mart - so he found a CG after dark, after Pulling in he rounded a corner to "Scrape a rock" that had been positioned so as to keep you off the grass - $22,000 DOLLARS LATER he had repaired the side of the Coach - They now meet us in the Wal*Mart parking lot all the time. No we don't Camp at Wal*Mart but we will spend the night when it is the smart thing to do while traveling long days and on many trips from Point "A" to "B", just Makes Sense to ME.

If you don't like it fine then don't do it - but please don't preach to me, I'm not in your church.

;)

Limited experience, but we called ahead for permission to stop overnight at WalMarts from FL to NM. Had our slide out at all three -- but we're a 4 Runner with a 20' Lance 1685 TT, so not exactly big. Several bigger trailers than ours in 2 of the 3 WM lots. We stocked up while we were there - sometimes a chore since we didn't really need anything after 1 day... :)

That's one of reasons we looked for and bought a new RV without slides ... so we wouldn't have as many decisions to make. ;)

We use Walmart parking lots now and then ... along with church parking lots, state Ports of Entry parking lots, Cracker Barrel parking lots, special commercial business parking lots (with permission), folks' back yards, county fairgrounds, state fairgrounds, county parks, state parks, federal parks, commercial campgrounds, and federal lands out in the middle of nowhere. Flexibility is the name of the game for us.

2oldman wrote:

SCVJeff wrote:
Escapees don't suggest, they have a rule book, and that's my issue. If it was simply to check with management that page wouldn't exist, that's the one and only rule

Do you ask management if you can put your slides out?

I tried that one time and the manager had no idea what I was asking about. After explaining that to him, he was fine with it. I don't ask the question anymore. Gary

I stop at WM one time to pick up supplies for the night. Security came right over to us as soon as we stop. He told us we would be fine where we were, but told us that if we parked over in this certain area we could put the slides out over the grass with lots of room. Saying the truck don't park in that area and it would be quite. Told him we were just picking up a few things and would be still trying to make some miles down the road before we stopped for the night. It was only 3:00PM Thank him for the information. I do put my slides out and check in with management. Never had any problems and all got a good night sleep.

SCVJeff wrote:
Escapees don't suggest, they have a rule book, and that's my issue. If it was simply to check with management that page wouldn't exist, that's the one and only rule

Do you ask management if you can put your slides out?

Bumpyroad wrote:

SCVJeff wrote:
It's easy. I could care less what Escapees or anyone else thinks I should or shouldn't do, it's not their call regardless what they think. When I've had to use a Walmart I ALWAYS go in and ask permission and tell them where I am. I also park the slide side over either a planter or someplace where it's zero Impact on the lot. End of story

It sort of seems to me that you are doing as the escapees suggest in your blacktop camping experiences.
bumpy

Escapees don't suggest, they have a rule book, and that's my issue. If it was simply to check with management that page wouldn't exist, that's the one and only rule