Showing up late

ksg5000 wrote:
As long as you make an effort to be quiet and save all the non essential hookups until tomorrow I don't think you will have a problem. Most of us have had to pull into campgrounds late and tired at some point in time - you probably will have sympathetic neighbors. However - if your uncomfortable backing in at night then that's another matter.

Your neighbors may be sympathetic to your face, but the park office often hears a different song. For the past several years, we have not allowed late check ins. We get much less pushback from that policy than we got from other guests when a late arrival woke them in the middle of the night. We have a redundant system to inform all potential guests of that policy. Furthermore, we contact each incoming guest on the date of their arrival to check on their travel progress. If it is apparent they cannot make the arrival deadline, we cancel that night without charge to the customer and direct them to alternative accommodations. Very rarely does the customer object, but when they do we remind ourselves our business is to please the 99 guests already on site who were able to arrive on time and not to try and please the outlier at the expense of those 99. I believe you will find this is a small, but growing trend in the industry.