Campgrounds with Seasonals. Yes/No?
What's the general consensus. We try to avoid CG with seasonals (other than work campers/hosts). We've not had good experience when the parks have seasonals. It always seems they feel its "their" park...
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I don't know of any campgrounds not located in a "destination" area that does not have seasonals. I do appreciate the transitional be in a separate area.
Many times I have seen that management has abdicated part of their responsibilities and allow the seasonals to run a vigilante like ad hoc neighborhood watch.
Worst experience I ever had was in Pa. about ten years ago. I do understand the trepidation that some seasonals had,but the reaction was way over the top.
We were a very large party,5 sites,5 trailers and a tent 2 boats and 8 vehicles. The harassment started while we were setting up. Golf cart pulls up and just sits down the road watching us, eventually the fat guy gets out and starts rehashing the camp rules, then goes on to inform us that we had to many vehicles on site. We were setting up! None of the vehicles were excess (we were allowed 2 at each site) but we did move some to the parking lot for our sake.
After we did get settled in the rest of the 4 days we had a watch dog, one of 3 patrol by our site every half hour or forty five minutes. Sometimes they even went so far as to sit just down the road like they were on some kind of stake out surveiling us.
My Bil spoke to managment about it and was told that,"That is just old so and so,they have been coming here forever,and just like to keep an eye on things."
We were a family group, ranging in age from newborn to 70 plus, we were not and had no intention of hard partying or rule breaking. Between the dockage fees for the boats, the payment for the sites the amount of money that was spent in the camp store,the owners made a good buck that weekend.
We never returned and never will.
Many times I have seen that management has abdicated part of their responsibilities and allow the seasonals to run a vigilante like ad hoc neighborhood watch.
Worst experience I ever had was in Pa. about ten years ago. I do understand the trepidation that some seasonals had,but the reaction was way over the top.
We were a very large party,5 sites,5 trailers and a tent 2 boats and 8 vehicles. The harassment started while we were setting up. Golf cart pulls up and just sits down the road watching us, eventually the fat guy gets out and starts rehashing the camp rules, then goes on to inform us that we had to many vehicles on site. We were setting up! None of the vehicles were excess (we were allowed 2 at each site) but we did move some to the parking lot for our sake.
After we did get settled in the rest of the 4 days we had a watch dog, one of 3 patrol by our site every half hour or forty five minutes. Sometimes they even went so far as to sit just down the road like they were on some kind of stake out surveiling us.
My Bil spoke to managment about it and was told that,"That is just old so and so,they have been coming here forever,and just like to keep an eye on things."
We were a family group, ranging in age from newborn to 70 plus, we were not and had no intention of hard partying or rule breaking. Between the dockage fees for the boats, the payment for the sites the amount of money that was spent in the camp store,the owners made a good buck that weekend.
We never returned and never will.
