How do you guys look for RV Parks?

CrystalRVTX wrote:
Wow, thanks for the overwhelming amount of responses!

We've been advertising on google but the different sites are a good way to branch out! Park next door is pretty full even though our rates are half of theirs and not to mention we have pretty fast wifi.

I guess, what is really important when you are staying at an RV park? what are your definite "YES I WANT TO STAY HERE vs NO WAY JOSE!" criteria?

Well Crystal, We are sure the odd man out here, but I am sure that we also can help.

Most RVers are not looking at billboards. If you have a modest ones 15~30 minutes out, that will get you all the incidental business that might happen.

Advertising on google has got to be rough, it might do some good. My BIL and I are the only people we know that travel as spur of the moment as we do. We used to travel with Woodalls open on the navigator's lap. Now it is internet and we work the sites that have already been listed. We like RV Park reviews most and find it most often correct. There are so many internet sites, you really would not be wasting you time to make sure that you are listed on all you can find.

Another place to work would be organisations. Any of the type specific is a good start. Think you can't manage an Airstream gathering? Then contact the nearest Tin Can Tourist chapter. Most will want a club house to have a meal or meeting, but a pool, not so much. We are a GMCers, and they rarely stop at campgrounds at all, but we do frequently return to those where there was a rally. As said, "Because then we know what to expect."

Do you have a friend that owns and RV? Find out if he knows about and reads one of the mentioned sites. Offer him a free week and make sure he has a good time.

Well, I wish you good fortune. Being any kind of a business owner is a lot more work than most people know. You can't make everybody happy, but if someone is not, listen to them.