westernrvparkowner wrote:
Executive wrote:
Obviously you would like to save the $30 bucks, judging by your question. So here's what I would do. Talk to the campground manager. Tell him/her you know they cannot rent YOUR site if you've paid for it for all four days. Now you want to stay only three days. Tell them IF they have an opportunity to rent your site for the fourth day, you'd like some sort of refund. If not, you're SOL..so to speak....:B ...Dennis
Renting out "your" site really doesn't make any difference, and it only hurts all the other guests if a park actually does that. Say you leave a day early. Another guest arrives for a night. The park has a few open spots. You had a very nice spot, since you reserved it long in advance. Should the park put that overnighter in a less desirable spot simply because you are a jerk and are going to have your friends monitor and report back if the big bad greedy RV park rents that specific spot you were staying in. What if the new guest was going to take 5 nights and the spot you were in was open for the next 4 days? Should the park make the new guest move from one site to another because you somehow think you have rights to a spot you are no longer in? The only time an argument could be made you are perhaps entitled to some refund would be if the park was otherwise completely full and would have to turn away a guest. Even then, if they had to process refunds and incur the labor cleaning the site to get it ready to rent for the next guest and have the labor renting to the new guest, fees are incurred that otherwise would not have been had you stayed the entire time, so a full refund would still be costing the park money.
While I may agree with you on many of your points, if I rent a space from you for a specified period of time and pay for it in full, I am entitled to that space for the allotted time that I paid for. You have a contractual obligation to me that that space is mine for the duration of my contract whether or not I actually occupy that space. You may NOT rent out that space unless you have IN WRITING something that says you can require a camper to move from their assigned space at your discretion, something I've never seen in any campground.
That said, I was offering the OP some suggestions to mitigate his perceived loss of $30.00. The prudent thing, of course is to just figure it cost him a little more for the nights he was there. Regardless, unless he releases the campground from their obligation, that site is his whether he is there or not......Dennis
