Listings in Good Sam campground guide
We are finishing up a 12,000 mile trip and used the GS book a lot. We found a lot of campgrounds that were not in the book. The latest campground had been in business since the 70's. It was a nice ...
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rockhillmanor wrote:rk911 wrote:
.....many CG's listed in the Good Sam book that are not affiliated with GS.
That's because so many of the CG's have DROPPED their GS affiliation. I am running into more and more of them the past few years.
I got real ticked off with that issue. Pull in to a CG sporting the big GS logo on their sign and expect to get the GS discount...not.
They say they dropped GS. Well take down the dang sign. And after a year when the new CG books are published take them out of the darn GS book.
By the 2nd year out full timing I stopped searching out CG's that have discount cards, don't use CG books, no reviews. All those methods netted me some real crappy CG's.
I now am finding REAL nice pleasurable CG's to stay at. CG's all now have there own websites and one quick and easy google search will show you all of them where you are at.
In my traveling experience on the road, I found over 50% of CG's are NOT listed in RV books. As like I did when I first started out, you all are missing out on some real nice CG's to stay at if you live and die RV'ing by the so called golden book of CG's!!:W
we've been using the GS directory since we started this RV thing back in 1986 and there have always been unaffiliated campgrounds in the book. I doubt that the book was ever intended to show just the GS campgrounds. heck, the GS website will display both GS and unaffiliated CG's when doing a CG search. we've run into former or never-affiliated GS parks that will honor the card but never the other way.
