No refund from Terry Bison Ranch

happybooker1 wrote:
Did the OP indeed cancel his spot? If so he should try calling and booking a spot NOW for that exact same time. Upon being told "we're all booked up" he should inquire about the site he cancelled which SHOULD be vacant.

Upon finding out that they have, indeed, rebooked that site he should then politely argue that a refund is due to HIM since they are getting paid TWICE for the same site.

I don't camp at private CG's much for that very reason. State Parks are 'always' willing to refund your money, minus a small fee (in Texas anyway)!

Once you cancel, the site is available to the next person. He made his decision, he has to live with it. Do you think that when you cancel a non-refundable reservation on an airplane that the plane travels with your seat open? It is really easy to avoid any and all cancellation fees. Don't make a reservation. Of course, during Frontier Days the nearest available RV site will probably be 100+ miles away, but hey, no cancel fees if you decide not to attend.
Cancel fees exist for several reasons, some even help the average RVer. If there were no fees and no time restrictions, people who plan in advance would be shut out of reservations by people who game the system and book several places at the same time and then make their travel decisions much later. When that happens, both the park and the people who were shut out lose. Making a reservation GUARANTEES that you will have a site. The park can't cancel your three day reservation to make room for someone who wants to stay 14 days. There is no telling how many reservations that park has turned away because it was holding those three days for those people and many of those unbookable reservations may have been for longer periods of time.