Standard Cancellation Policies

Deposits are a two way street. You are making a commitment to stay and the park is committing a site to you. Just because they are slow, or busy doesn't change the fact the park has made that commitment. And even if they rent that site the day you were scheduled to use it, doesn't mean they didn't lose another customer. Today at one of my parks was a prime example. I had a guest who wanted to stay for 10 days. I had to turn them away because one of the days in the middle of that stay the park is completely full. Several of the people staying on the day we are full are only staying one night. Since I honor my reservations, I didn't cancel one of those one night stays and put in the much more lucrative 10 night stay. I did the ethical thing and turned the 10 night stay away. If the cancellation fees are not painful, there are many people who would make multiple reservations in different parts of the country and make their final decision at the last minute leaving most of the parks high and dry and leave fellow RVers who actually want to stay at a particular park without a site to reserve. The solution is very simple, if you don't want to risk a cancellation fee, don't reserve at a park that has them.