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DesertDogs
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Dec 22, 2017

Tucson/KOA/Lazy Days now $52/night! Alternatives you like?

We have enjoyed the LazyDays/KOA/Tucson park for years, but now, they are priced so outrageously ($52/night, with no weekly rate either) that we are seriously open to considering alternatives. This is a wonderful park with nice, wide spaces, but sheesh... $52 a night???

Do you have a favorite RV park in the greater Tucson area, other than KOA/LazyDays?
  • In all respect to 2gypsies I can't disagree with the numbers. But being center located makes it best to go to EITHER the east or west side...both of which have desirable things to see. I like Voyager; have stayed there. DeAnza is south of where we live in Sahuarita and is a nice park but you are about 40-55 miles south of Tucson (depending on where you are going in the city). You do have Madera Canyon down there which we love and spend a lot of time at.

    He might have missed the point on the rv and park costs though.
  • Our personal wealth/rolling stock, and the value of our property in Scottsdale, has nothing to do with this discussion. I didn't become wealthy by ignoring the costs and valuation of things. So, save it.

    I wanted to learn of other parks in the area which might be less costly than Lazydays KOA.

    I made it perfectly clear that we have stayed here at Lazydays many times and enjoy it here, and will certainly stay here again when we are so motivated.. But since they have raised their rates and eliminated the weekly rate, I wanted to know if there might be other good options in the area to stay for a week, or two, or a month... PERIOD.

    As for on-site restaurants, laundry facilities, pools, rec rooms, organized activities, proximity to shopping, etc., those are not of much, if any, interest to me. The size of the sites, quality of the hook ups, and relative quality of the surroundings are meaningful to me. We're not looking to be entertained, nor for social activities.

    I don't care what the going rate of sites may be in other parts of the country, nor how attractive $52/night may be to those who pay much more elsewhere. Rght now, I'm interested in Tucson.

    To those who want to tell me to go elsewhere if I don't like the rate, that someone else will come along to take my place when I vacate (this park is about 1/2 full right now!), or want to attempt a lecture on capitalism - save it. You're wasting your time, effort, and our bandwidth. I pay attention to the cost of things, even when I can easily afford them. I am a big spender and splurge on the things I would like to have, but I'm always looking for good pricing and value, even with relatively inexpensive things.
  • Go the the KOA when in Tucson. Simple as that - in Tucson, like most park areas anyplace (in general) you get what you pay for (sites very important to us to as we are not interested in all the hoopla). There are not many good private parks in Tucson. And it is centrally located....location has advantages.
  • Good info, 2gypsies. Thanks.

    I'm wondering how somebody here got their post removed? Somebody named WesternRVParkOwner, or something like that?

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