Urgent request to campground owners
Please have pictures of your actual campsites, facilities, scenic views, etc under the "photos" tab on your website! I am so tired of clicking on that tab only to see pictures of kids with face pai...
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It's not just their photos that are an issue. So are the misleading write-ups they do about their CGs. We have membership in Coast-Coast and a few others and have a stack of their booklets.
You read things like "next to the ocean" and find out it's a mile or more away. You read that "the historic downtown is close by" only to find it's a 1/2 hour drive or more to get there. They'll say it's "a lovely treed site" only to find that it's next to railroad tracks, a freeway or industrial plant. There simply can be a whole lot of detracting features that are so bad you'd never go there even if they paid you....
We had a CG booked 2 years ago on a long trip. The write-up said it was a lovely CG and in the heart of a fishing community next to the ocean. Holy crap, it was a terrible dive and just disgusting complete with ramshackle buildings and derelict trailers. We just couldn't bring ourselves to stay there and drove up the road to a really nice Thousand Trails. But the write-up and pics made it seem pretty nice!
We stayed in CG last year for a week that said it was on the ocean. Sounded waaay cool. We imagined sitting on the beach in our recliners for hours. Turns out the beach was around like 1/4 mile away (at high tide too) because the gov't owns a wide strip of land along the coast. The wind was blowing like a gale pretty much non-stop. It was really foggy and cold even in Aug. The non-stop wind was so loud you could barely talk outside. Just another CG that had a nice write-up, pffft. Come to think of it, no pics of the beach itself or description of it. Another disappointing CG for us. Card games in the clubhouse every night were fun though!
Sometimes a CG can be absolutely fabulous and you'd never know by their lame write-up and pics.
Really, the only way to know if a CG is nice is to go online and read reviews of it. To heck with pictures or words. These pics are at a terrific CG (Good Sam) on the west side of Puget Sound in Washington that we stayed at last year. Online reviews said it was one of the best in Wa. and they were right.
You read things like "next to the ocean" and find out it's a mile or more away. You read that "the historic downtown is close by" only to find it's a 1/2 hour drive or more to get there. They'll say it's "a lovely treed site" only to find that it's next to railroad tracks, a freeway or industrial plant. There simply can be a whole lot of detracting features that are so bad you'd never go there even if they paid you....
We had a CG booked 2 years ago on a long trip. The write-up said it was a lovely CG and in the heart of a fishing community next to the ocean. Holy crap, it was a terrible dive and just disgusting complete with ramshackle buildings and derelict trailers. We just couldn't bring ourselves to stay there and drove up the road to a really nice Thousand Trails. But the write-up and pics made it seem pretty nice!
We stayed in CG last year for a week that said it was on the ocean. Sounded waaay cool. We imagined sitting on the beach in our recliners for hours. Turns out the beach was around like 1/4 mile away (at high tide too) because the gov't owns a wide strip of land along the coast. The wind was blowing like a gale pretty much non-stop. It was really foggy and cold even in Aug. The non-stop wind was so loud you could barely talk outside. Just another CG that had a nice write-up, pffft. Come to think of it, no pics of the beach itself or description of it. Another disappointing CG for us. Card games in the clubhouse every night were fun though!
Sometimes a CG can be absolutely fabulous and you'd never know by their lame write-up and pics.
Really, the only way to know if a CG is nice is to go online and read reviews of it. To heck with pictures or words. These pics are at a terrific CG (Good Sam) on the west side of Puget Sound in Washington that we stayed at last year. Online reviews said it was one of the best in Wa. and they were right.
