The Compton Ridge Campground in Branson, MO was acquired by new owners, Ocean Canyon Properties, and reopened earlier this year. Last month they called us and offered us three free nights of camping if we would agree to a tour of their property and a 90 minute sales presentation. Hey, I’m good with that. It’s been a couple of years since we’ve been to Branson so yeah, I’ll sit through your presentation. We have stayed at this campground before so I guess that’s how they had our name and phone number.I figured the sales pitch would be hard sell, but I didn’t think it would be so easy to say NO. The sales pitch was for Premier Membership in Coast to Coast. The “discounted” price was $13,575.00 with annual dues of $495.00. I’m turning 69 years old next month and the longevity gene isn’t in the male side of our family. I’d have to do a heck of a lot of camping before I die just to break even on that deal. No thank you, but I did enjoy the three free nights.BTW, the Compton Ridge Campground was in worse shape than the last time we stayed there. While in Branson we bought tickets for Le Grand Cirque at the Kings Castle Theater. The show was very good and worth seeing if you visit Branson.

OMG! I haven't spent $495 yet for this year for ALL the camping I've done so far this year at State Parks and Private Camp Grounds all over Indiana ...

Just for a little clarification.......C2C is an 'affiliate' camping program. The annual dues to maintain the 'affiliate' camping program are $89/yr (Classic) to $149/yr (Premier)You have to have membership in a private campground '(home resort) in order to get C2C (AOR, RPI, ROD programs)That “discounted” price of $13,575.00 with annual dues of $495.00 was to become a member of The Compton Ridge Campground in Branson, MO. It was the price of your 'home park' NOT the cost of C2C.Buying a campground membership only is beneficial if:1) You are a FT'r2) You buy CHEAP---------RESALE3) You use it a LOT!Our 'home park' with C2C & RPI via resale was $950 Total.Then after 1st year our home park dues are $59/yr---frozen and the C2C was $129/yr and we used it frequently while traveling FT.RESALE/CHEAP/USE IT.........otherwise FORGET IT!

Compton Ridge Campground is not a membership park for Ocean Canyon Properties. We left Branson in May and looked into Ocean Canyon Properties purchase of Compton Ridge when they claimed ownership on the sign out front. They informed us at that time they would not be a membership park format there. We have been members of OCP for over 7 years. We went to their sales presentation and it sounded like something we could use. It was sold to us as an investment in the local park where we affiliated. After a couple of years we saw no improvements to our local park, in fact we saw reduced services there but OCP keep buying more parks and selling memberships for them. Since we were locked into our contract we paid our contract off in full and they keep billing us for that yearly maintenance fee, ours is $365 per year. When we informed them we didn't intend to use their parks at all they said okay and keep right on sending the yearly maintenance fee bill. It's there view that the maintenance fee is forever and you can not opt out.Keep in mind as well that once you purchase your membership you can not sell or transfer it with out OCP approval. They maintain complete control over who their members are.

According to their website....it is one of seven of their propertiesAbita Springs RV Park/Louisiana Compton Ridge RV Park/MissouriMillwood Landing RV Park/Arkansas Mountain Lakes RV Park/AlabamaStyx River RV Park/AlabamaTexoma Shores RV Park/OklahomaTres Rios RV Park/TexasWebsite.....LINK

Ocean Canyon Properties was only mentioned at the beginning of the sales presentation. The sales staff stressed this was membership in Coast to Coast. They also stressed that when we joined C2C we would also get a 10% discount at the many Good Sam parks. When I told them I was already a member of Good Sams they took a $1000.00 off the price. BTW, the starting price was $21,000.00 before they started adding on discounts.Near the end presentation when I mentioned that camping only costs me $8.00 to $12.00 a night at COE parks with my America the Beautiful card they told me that due to government budget problems all the COE parks and state parks would be sold to private interests over the next few years. Wow!I found the tour of the park and the sales presentation very entertaining.

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kakampers
Explorer
Jul 02, 2014
Oakman wrote:
Ocean Canyon Properties was only mentioned at the beginning of the sales presentation. The sales staff stressed this was membership in Coast to Coast. They also stressed that when we joined C2C we would also get a 10% discount at the many Good Sam parks. When I told them I was already a member of Good Sams they took a $1000.00 off the price. BTW, the starting price was $21,000.00 before they started adding on discounts.

Near the end presentation when I mentioned that camping only costs me $8.00 to $12.00 a night at COE parks with my America the Beautiful card they told me that due to government budget problems all the COE parks and state parks would be sold to private interests over the next few years. Wow!

I found the tour of the park and the sales presentation very entertaining.

Then their sales staff needs better training....Old Biscuit was correct. The $13k and $495 annual dues was to purchase a membership at the park. You MUST have a membership in an affiliated park to join CtoC....which has separate dues of $89...

Most do not understand that there are two parts to "campground membership"...you have the property owners (the park) and the affiliate (CtoC, AOR, ROD, etc.) that connects the parks in their "system"...you pay upfront cost in both and annual dues to both...
ReadyToGo
Explorer
Jul 02, 2014
We went to a different kind of one. This was where you buy a week at their park. Price was about $20,000 with about $500 yearly fee. Since there are 52 weeks, you can see what profit there would be.
Also, the pitch was that this was a premium place so we could get 2 or 3 weeks at other places in their HUGE book. I wonder why they were pushing the 2/3 weeks other places instead of pushing the week here.
Didn't buy of course.

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