Fort Widerness

suprz wrote:

soren wrote:

suprz wrote:
Hated it. Too expensive. Sites electrical in the far back corner, never saw one employee that looked happy. Only time we did see an employee was on our last morning, asking us if we would be out by 10:00 am. Its overpriced and over hyped. I lived in california for 28 years went to disneyland at least 2 times a year, is disneyworld bigger and better, YES, but i would never waste my money camping at fort wilderness again

Spent at least 100+ nights there, and I have yet to meet an unpleasant employee, and never got asked about when we were pulling out. This trip, (two weeks ago) was the first time I got a site that had the power WAY too far to the rear of the pad, but it isn't typical. To each his own, but when you are running an operation that has 100% occupancy for months on end, demand pricing that results in $150+ a night prices in some time slots, and folks obsessively surfing your website in hopes of hitting a rarely available cancellation, and a chance to get into the place for a few days, I'm pretty sure they aren't losing much sleep over the statistically tiny number of haters out there. When it comes to the North American RV resort market, I doubt that there is a better run, more profitable operation, with a higher customer satisfaction rating.

"More profitable operation" --- MAYBE, But, You doubt that there is a better run resort, with a higher customer satisfaction rating??? Come on.... :R

I spent weeks try to find a few available days in the first three months of this year, and eventually turned the task over to a travel agent that specializes in the task. She was only partially successful, but I took whatever she could get. When I book for Christmas weeks I book 15 months ahead. Any later than that, and they are full. As I mentioned previously, I NEVER met a single employee with anything less that a friendly professional attitude. The place is operated to such excessive standards that you can drive around after a night of heavy frost, and see landscape crews quickly replacing flowering perennials that died overnight. This is as the sun is coming up. I don't know what irrational standard you would use for customer satisfaction, but mine is pretty simple. If you have 100% occupancy, while charging a multiple of average rates in the business, and you are turning customers away, I'm guessing that most of them are pretty satisfied. I've talked to hundreds of neighbors at our FW campsites over the last two decades, and one striking observation is that unhappy campers are pretty rare. If you didn't like it, that's fine, move on. There are plenty of folks waiting to take your spot. Attempting to dis one of the highest rated, most successful resorts in the industry for things like the fact that you were asked if you were leaving by ten (oh, the horror of that) or that the power outlet was a bit further away than you like.....................seriously? Sounds like that's not the only place that was happy to see your tail lights.