badsix wrote:
The wife and I drove down to a couple of our local campgrounds one Saturday during the summer last year. both have signs that they are full. as we are driving through we see several sites vacant 8- 10, as we are exiting I see the camp host and ask if your full how come you have many open sites. he says they are reserved, but he also says the people may or probably wont show up. most were reserved for three nights the soonest we could have one would be monday afternoon. even though they sat vacant Friday Saturday and Sunday. what gives!
Jay D.
I’ve hosted at a campground that takes reservations for some sites. When people reserve sites, they pay for them, too. At ours, they pay for the entire reservation up front. Other CGs they may only pay for day one. In doing so, they are guaranteed the site no matter when they arrive. Sometimes they get a latter start on the trip than they planned or encounter delays on the road. Then there are those who just decide not to go camping after all and instead of doing the right thing and canceling so we can let somebody else have the site, they just never show up.
Many reservable campgrounds do have a policy that if the site isn’t occupied by the end of the first day, the rest of the reservation is automatically cancelled. This, IMHO, is the best compromise but not all campgrounds do it.
Many of those reservation cancelled sites become available if you are willing to show up early in the morning and hang around waiting, which some are willing to do and some are not.
