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Borrowed a trailer and getting ready for some fun in the sun (it's cold here now 30's again tonight) I went and bought a 8 inch drop hitch, the 6 inch had the deck at too much of an angle, and ...
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Listen up guys.
I'll save you some grief.
We had a great stay on Pine Island at the KOA. We visited with my parents, went to the Galt Preserve, Bokeelia, Randall Research center, and Matlacha.
Although this KOA is older it was a nice stay, we went from that to...
Shady Acres RV Resort in Ft Myers, the name should have been a warning, to visit some friends.
The web site pictures made it look very nice. and the entrance and office lived up to the web site pictures.
So...let me tell you a story...we called two days in advance of our stay there. We told them about our length. We were told that we would have to drop our trailer and that there would be a storage fee.
All is good. Then we received a call from the park. They had one spot where we would be able to have the trailer with us and there would be not storage fee. Outstanding. We were told that we could arrive anytime before 5:00 PM
We arrived at 10:00 AM Sunday. There was no one in the office, and the phone number which had been promised was not on the office door. There was no after hours site information prepared. We finally found the number posted on the camp bulletin board in front of the fire pit.
The park manager came out of the double wide trailer next to the office and things went down hill from there.
We were treaded very rudely, instructed that we would have to drop the trailer, and that there would be a charge. We were threatened with not getting a site.
The storage area was a water logged area on one side of the camp ground. The camp site was narrow, damp, surrounded by run down permanent converted campers. The power hookup pole was infested with ants. We did not use any of the other hookups and if we were going to stay any longer than 20 hours we would have left.
We later learned from the park maintenance staff that the spot we had been promised had been given away earlier in the day.
Here are two pictures of the site we had, note the difference in the condition of the site and the office location.
So my recommendation is to stay away from Shady Acres RV Resort
I'll save you some grief.
We had a great stay on Pine Island at the KOA. We visited with my parents, went to the Galt Preserve, Bokeelia, Randall Research center, and Matlacha.
Although this KOA is older it was a nice stay, we went from that to...
Shady Acres RV Resort in Ft Myers, the name should have been a warning, to visit some friends.
The web site pictures made it look very nice. and the entrance and office lived up to the web site pictures.
So...let me tell you a story...we called two days in advance of our stay there. We told them about our length. We were told that we would have to drop our trailer and that there would be a storage fee.
All is good. Then we received a call from the park. They had one spot where we would be able to have the trailer with us and there would be not storage fee. Outstanding. We were told that we could arrive anytime before 5:00 PM
We arrived at 10:00 AM Sunday. There was no one in the office, and the phone number which had been promised was not on the office door. There was no after hours site information prepared. We finally found the number posted on the camp bulletin board in front of the fire pit.
The park manager came out of the double wide trailer next to the office and things went down hill from there.
We were treaded very rudely, instructed that we would have to drop the trailer, and that there would be a charge. We were threatened with not getting a site.
The storage area was a water logged area on one side of the camp ground. The camp site was narrow, damp, surrounded by run down permanent converted campers. The power hookup pole was infested with ants. We did not use any of the other hookups and if we were going to stay any longer than 20 hours we would have left.
We later learned from the park maintenance staff that the spot we had been promised had been given away earlier in the day.
Here are two pictures of the site we had, note the difference in the condition of the site and the office location.
So my recommendation is to stay away from Shady Acres RV Resort
