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Chainwright
Sep 24, 2017Explorer
westernrvparkowner wrote:jplante4 wrote:How is taking your business elsewhere and "voting with your wallet" accomplished when the business specifically doesn't want your business in the first place? I have been "taking my business elsewhere" from the Augusta National Golf Club for years, yet they still won't consider me for membership or even sell me a ticket to the Masters. It's a fact of life that numerous businesses have a business model that does not want me as a customer. The fancy French restaurant won't budge on their dress code to serve me in my cutoff jeans, Chuck E Cheese doesn't have a quiet room where I can enjoy a Pizza in peace, and the MGM Grand isn't going to change the table limits because I want to low roll and make fifty cent bets at the dice table.
This topic comes up every once in a while (search "age restriction" and 15 posts in the past 12 months, "10 year" yields 467 posts).
The typical advise is to go elsewhere. Voting with your wallet is always effective. The one place we stayed where they asked for pix before completing the reservation was unpleasant.
I don't need people or businesses in my life like that.
Age limits and other rules are in place at parks because they are looking for a specific type of customer or have had problems that those limits and policies address. They didn't just dream them up to be a pain in the arse to some people. They make those policies known so you don't drive halfway across the country only to find out you cannot stay there. Isn't knowing a park has a 10 year age rule and may possibly exclude your RV better than arriving at the gate and being told that your rig doesn't meet their minimum standards? That could be the case if the park had the vague "we only accept rigs kept in good condition" criteria.
Beautiful logic. It does make sense. But that's why I threw in there if that also happens to 12-15 yr old Prevosts, Newells, Foretravels et al. in that category.
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