How do you pick the RV Parks you stay in ...

Dutch_12078 wrote:
My first stop when looking for a park in any area is always RV Park Reviews.

Ditto

Dutch_12078 wrote:
My first stop when looking for a park in any area is always RV Park Reviews.

Same here

Do they have a hot tub, wifi, and cost

I use RVparkreviews.com. I'm a little OCD when it comes to picking my RV parks so I put them in a spreadsheet on my computer and then insert the last 10 customer reviews and average them. I then input the nightly rate from the last 10 visitors and average that. I sort them by average rating picking the top 3 or 4. Then I look at the nightly rate of those top 3 or 4 and see what I am willing to pay. Once I settle on 1 or 2 based on reviews and rate I then read between 5-10 reviews. If I like what I read then that's the one I pick. If I don't like what I read then I move on to a different one. One thing I have found is that you have to take some reviews with a grain of salt. Some reviews are just sour grapes from people that are naturally grumpy. Use you own judgement. This method has served me well and helped me to pick four amazing camp site and/or RV parks on a trip from Kansas to California.

I prefer CG's that aren't just "parking lots". As such, I'll research a site on the 'web, and look at on Google earth. Website photos are sometimes helpful, but you need to realize they are usually taken of the best parts of the CG only. Reading reviews on Google is also helpful, but again you must take these with a grain of salt! Price plays a lesser role in my choice, although I'll always avoid KOA's due to their exorbitant rates. Here in Western Canada, I will most often choose a Provincial Park campground, as they are uncrowded, have lots of trees and space between rigs, have reservable sites and reasonable prices.

Google Earth, here. I like big sites with lots of trees and privacy on loops that aren't likely to have a lot of car traffic so that the kids can bike safely. I don't need any hookups.

We almost never, given the choice, stay at private campgrounds because they rarely allow one to reserve a specific site in advance and tend to have much smaller, less private, sites.

Since we fulltime and most of our travel is between volunteer positions and our preference even for overnites is minimal we just look at a map and what state parks are on route and within our daily driving range 200-250. Then check the SP's website for site size, amps and whether they have pull throughs then check rvparksreviews for unbiased info. We usually travel S-F so never worry about reservations.

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On the road, on familiar routes we plan our trips to stop at the places we already know and like.

In a new area, we'll look at places a couple hours forward in the Trailer Life directory, but often just stop at someplace we spot along the way. My experience is maybe a third of the RV parks out there are not in anybody's directory, but that's not the whole country, just the middle. So the criterion is essentially "it's here, I'm here, and I'm ready to stop for the day." It is just a few hours, to hook up power and sleep, I'm not fussy.

For destination camping, several days stay, might refer to RV Park Reviews, but much of my destination camping is not in RV parks, rather at public campgrounds on lakes and reservoirs, or state parks at historical sites. Ambience is usually quite different from RV parks.

I determine where I want to go and then use RV Park Reviews.com to narrow down the campground options. Sometimes you're boxed in by dates or towns for camping due to the reasons your going there, but I always read or look at any available photos, including Google Maps.com, as much as I can before settling on a campground.