All camps receive guests at night?
Can I assume that all camps have some kind of night procedure? What do you do when it's past 10pm and you need to stop?
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I don't believe a late arrival necessarily indicates poor planning. For retired folks, they can come and go as they please, so their schedules are likely much easier to manage.
However, for those of us still working and raising families, the luxury of heading out for a weekend getaway is not always as easy. Often times, I need to work a half-day, or even full-day, the day of departure, but do the best we can to make a nice weekend for everyone by maximizing our time at the campground -- and that may mean arriving after 6pm (oh heaven forbid we do such an awful thing). With a truck camper, our arrival and set-up at camp is easily under 5-minutes. If it's late, any tinkering around is saved until the next day.
Personally, I could care less when my fellow campers arrive or depart. It's their behavior while they are there that's more of a concern, because that lasts 24-hours a day while on-site.
The other issue is the crazy way some campgrounds are managing their arrival and departure times. Some won't let campers arrive prior to 2pm, yet you can't arrive after 6 or 7pm. That compresses the flurry of activity into a 4 or 5 hour window. If the campsite is ready, why restrict access? It just makes everybody's life more difficult. I worked in the hotel industry for 10 years and can imagine the outrage if we carried out the same practice. Shoot, if the room was ready, we got the guest in asap. Now the guest could get on with their day and we were available to help others.
However, for those of us still working and raising families, the luxury of heading out for a weekend getaway is not always as easy. Often times, I need to work a half-day, or even full-day, the day of departure, but do the best we can to make a nice weekend for everyone by maximizing our time at the campground -- and that may mean arriving after 6pm (oh heaven forbid we do such an awful thing). With a truck camper, our arrival and set-up at camp is easily under 5-minutes. If it's late, any tinkering around is saved until the next day.
Personally, I could care less when my fellow campers arrive or depart. It's their behavior while they are there that's more of a concern, because that lasts 24-hours a day while on-site.
The other issue is the crazy way some campgrounds are managing their arrival and departure times. Some won't let campers arrive prior to 2pm, yet you can't arrive after 6 or 7pm. That compresses the flurry of activity into a 4 or 5 hour window. If the campsite is ready, why restrict access? It just makes everybody's life more difficult. I worked in the hotel industry for 10 years and can imagine the outrage if we carried out the same practice. Shoot, if the room was ready, we got the guest in asap. Now the guest could get on with their day and we were available to help others.
