resorts

Bruce Hoster wrote:
Sorry for the misunderstanding. To clarify what I was trying to say, Coast to Coast (not our affiliated resorts) pays the independent Good Sam rating teams to rate our membership resorts every year. Membership resorts would not otherwise be rated by the Good Sam teams, as they are not open to the public. Coast spends the extra money as a way to insure that we're sending our members to quality parks & resorts. We also monitor member feedback on our parks & resorts as another way to make sure we're delivering a quality network. If you check any of the directories of our competitors, you will see that they do not have ratings for their resorts. The point is, Coast goes the extra mile to try our best to deliver a quality resort network for our members. Hope this helps clarify my earlier comments.

So the ratings for the membership parks are bought and paid for. At least we know why all those reviews on RV park reviews say things like "I don't know how this C2C park got the high Good Sam ratings...?" I now wonder what other parsing of the English language is done by the Good Sam Directory. For example, it would be true to say that individual parks cannot buy ratings, but if a major franchisor like KOA or Leisure Resorts (Yogi Parks) paid corporately to have their franchise parks rated, that would amount to the same thing. Or as a president once said, "What is "is"" This information makes Good Sam Travel Directory, supposedly independent rating source, yet another one to cross off the list.