Dumping Tanks in an Empty Full Service Site
Last week I was staying in a full service site in a national park. The park has hundreds of sites, only about a third of which are full service. The rest of the park shares 2 dump stations which are a...
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Tom/Barb wrote:There may actually be a business reason behind having customers stand in line and wait for the dump station. Maybe the next time those same customers will value their time more than the few bucks extra it costs to rent a full hookup site.
In areas that freeze, I can see posting that certain sites can not be used when the possibility of the sewage drain is not going to work.
But just making rules that certain sites can't be used because you didn't pay a few cents, Seems to me to not be very customer friendly. Those cap grounds would rather see their customers stand in line and wait.
We eliminated all outside dumping, water fills and showers for non guests years ago. Mostly because it was a great inconvenience, both to our employees and our guests, but also because we decided it is not in our financial interest to make staying in the primitive state and federal campgrounds near us easy. We get requests from those campers to allow them to pull into a full hookup site to dump and fill water tanks all the time. The answer is always a firm "sorry, but we do not allow it". The added traffic and activity is not fair to the paying guests. If that means those people have to drive 30 miles to empty their waste tanks, fill their water tanks or take a hot shower, so be it. And I bet the next time they plan on visiting the area they will remember that trip to the dump station and consider renting one of our full hookup sites instead.
