FULLTIMEWANABE wrote:
Just reading more and more posts and hearing of substantial increase in CG/Resort Prices. Chula Vista San Diego, Gunnison KOA dropping monthly rates so more than doubled based on daily rates and several others gone up substantially. How is this affecting how you travel?
We appreciate, it's all to do with supply and demand, and for sure can appreciate that some of the costs may have gone up exponentially but just curious how end users/RVers have or are planning on changing how they travel, or where they stay. There is no way our incomes have increased the same percentage that the rates to stay have for sure. For example back in the 90's we loved staying at Provincial Parks and various State and Federal CG's, but with privatization and exorbitant increases to the daily rates for basically "somewhere" just to park overnight (we are totally self sufficient with solar etc, so don't need hookups, for the past several years we are avoiding paying these overnight rates for the most part and finding somewhere nearby to boondock/drycamp. Our local PP hubby fishes for walleye and pike at, we go down to the lake/dam at 7am in the morning, I kayak, prep foods in the car park in the RV, and we leave anywhere after dark and find somewhere within a couple of miles to dry camp overnight. Don't get me wrong if it were less than $12/night to stay then fair comment we'd gladly pay and stay, but $39 for too many restrictions and little other than the lake everyone has access to we can't justify $40/night personally. I recall when we paid an exhorbitant $75/night at Newport Dunes to explore LA area as a one off for the experience, but there is no way on earth I'd pay their current $300/night today.
Don't want this to get in to a "justification" thread as to "why" they charge what they do etc, but just curious who else has started to change the way they travel and stay due to the increased charges for a site etc. Like always, we have the choice to stay or not and vote with our dollars :)
No effect on us. We don't need hookups, and we prefer national forest campgrounds, or true boondocking, with state and national parks next. No interest in most commercial camping lots (I don't even see them as being "campgrounds"), so the price they charge is not an issue. national forest camps are typically under $20, and with my senior pass, less than that.
I travel with full fresh water tank, can get on for a long time without electrical hookup, just using solar and/or the generator to keep my one battery charged. We don't use microwave, AC, television... we don't drink coffee and my wife heats water for tea on the stove, we make toast on the stove. We have sleeping bags when it gets too cold, so we don't even use the furnace except to break the chill on a cold morning. Our most consistent LP and power draw is the fridge. I can live with that.
