Is this common?
My wife and I purchased our TT in September. Since then, we've been able to take it out twice in order to work out the bugs and get used to towing and setting up the camper. Both trips have been to Fort Wilderness at Disney World since it is very close to our house. We returned from our most recent trip today.
Disney has both pet and non-pet loops. Yet on both stays, people in our loop had pets. The first time, the two dogs staying in one camper were quiet, and the owners quickly walked them, and cleaned up after them; so it wasn't really noticed. I guess they were trying to save the $5 charge for bringing a pet and for some reason wanted to avoid the pet loops, since there were plenty of open sites.
This trip, we back into our site, and get out of the truck only to be greeted by the very loud barking of a large dog (not friendly) located in the site next to us (both part of a non-pet loop). My wife went to walk by the site to see if perhaps the dog was somewhere else. She was again greeted by the bark of what looked like a large German Sheppard in a tent with the owner sitting right there making no attempt to quiet the dog. Plus, the next site had a truck camper with a smaller dog in that one barking loudly.
Again, as before there were available sites in the pet loops. I drove up to Guest Services and asked them what the rules were for pets in a non-pet loop, thinking perhaps there are exceptions. They told me there are no exceptions, and asked what site numbers had the dogs. I told them, and then they gave us a different site which was away from the dogs and much nicer as well. A few hours later, we walked around the loop and saw that both sites had been vacated.
Is this type of stuff common when RVing? The problem is not dogs (I like dogs, my 16 year old golden lab died in June), but rather the blatant disregard for rules. Between not following pet rules, blaring their golf cart horns loudly late at night, being drunk and disruptive in the campground restaurant, etc., I'm beginning to wonder if camping is really nothing more than an endurance test for putting up with people that are so self centered they really don't care at all about rules or other people. Hopefully my experiences at Fort Wilderness are more a function of the location than camping in general; or perhaps I've just been unlucky in my location and timing.
Thanks for the opportunity to rant. :)
Doug
Disney has both pet and non-pet loops. Yet on both stays, people in our loop had pets. The first time, the two dogs staying in one camper were quiet, and the owners quickly walked them, and cleaned up after them; so it wasn't really noticed. I guess they were trying to save the $5 charge for bringing a pet and for some reason wanted to avoid the pet loops, since there were plenty of open sites.
This trip, we back into our site, and get out of the truck only to be greeted by the very loud barking of a large dog (not friendly) located in the site next to us (both part of a non-pet loop). My wife went to walk by the site to see if perhaps the dog was somewhere else. She was again greeted by the bark of what looked like a large German Sheppard in a tent with the owner sitting right there making no attempt to quiet the dog. Plus, the next site had a truck camper with a smaller dog in that one barking loudly.
Again, as before there were available sites in the pet loops. I drove up to Guest Services and asked them what the rules were for pets in a non-pet loop, thinking perhaps there are exceptions. They told me there are no exceptions, and asked what site numbers had the dogs. I told them, and then they gave us a different site which was away from the dogs and much nicer as well. A few hours later, we walked around the loop and saw that both sites had been vacated.
Is this type of stuff common when RVing? The problem is not dogs (I like dogs, my 16 year old golden lab died in June), but rather the blatant disregard for rules. Between not following pet rules, blaring their golf cart horns loudly late at night, being drunk and disruptive in the campground restaurant, etc., I'm beginning to wonder if camping is really nothing more than an endurance test for putting up with people that are so self centered they really don't care at all about rules or other people. Hopefully my experiences at Fort Wilderness are more a function of the location than camping in general; or perhaps I've just been unlucky in my location and timing.
Thanks for the opportunity to rant. :)
Doug
