RV'ing Discount Member Ships and Affiliations
New to RVing and I'm seeing tons of Discount Memberships like KOA, Good Sams, Passport America, etc.... I can't join them all, so can I get some input on those y'all have joined, would never join, ...
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Won't name names , but like others have posted travel a year and see how much and what/where you really do camping.
We walked into a particular store and was hit up for a sit and just for listening to the sales pitch we would get a free $10-$20. in store coupon to use.
First it started out as somewhere in the neighborhood of $8000.00 dollars for a membership we laughed and thought do people really by this stuff..
As we were getting up to leave the salesguy went into well we do have a certain one that you only have to $99.00 a year and use the CG's in their booklet and its only $10.00 a night to stay (unless they were having some kind of event etc going on at the particular CG ,oh and it was certain sites in said CG's too )
So since we knew we were doing a cross country trip from Ca to DC went for the $99. and joined up for the year. We knew we were going to stay at College Park CG for 8 days and figured that alone would cover the $99 and then some
Small print and how he conveniently kinda rushed through the part where you buy points then call ahead to the CG where you want to stay and use the points.
Another small print and how he slick talked right passed was you can't call the day of where you want to stay that night and or you can't arrive at the CG and get a spot.
We don't know if we are going to drive 100 miles in one day or 600 miles in one day , so the above type of membership is was pretty much useless !
Not to mention a good 40%-60% of the CG's were not right off the road , you had to drive aways off the beaten path to get to them.
So if you do buy into any of them read over everything and ask ask ask questions...
We walked into a particular store and was hit up for a sit and just for listening to the sales pitch we would get a free $10-$20. in store coupon to use.
First it started out as somewhere in the neighborhood of $8000.00 dollars for a membership we laughed and thought do people really by this stuff..
As we were getting up to leave the salesguy went into well we do have a certain one that you only have to $99.00 a year and use the CG's in their booklet and its only $10.00 a night to stay (unless they were having some kind of event etc going on at the particular CG ,oh and it was certain sites in said CG's too )
So since we knew we were doing a cross country trip from Ca to DC went for the $99. and joined up for the year. We knew we were going to stay at College Park CG for 8 days and figured that alone would cover the $99 and then some
Small print and how he conveniently kinda rushed through the part where you buy points then call ahead to the CG where you want to stay and use the points.
Another small print and how he slick talked right passed was you can't call the day of where you want to stay that night and or you can't arrive at the CG and get a spot.
We don't know if we are going to drive 100 miles in one day or 600 miles in one day , so the above type of membership is was pretty much useless !
Not to mention a good 40%-60% of the CG's were not right off the road , you had to drive aways off the beaten path to get to them.
So if you do buy into any of them read over everything and ask ask ask questions...
