Paid for but vacant sites
Most state parks in Iowa consider a site occupied if it's payed for. I find out from co-workers that some public parks they have been to require a payed site to be occupied with a camper or someone ...
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pappcam wrote:Javi1 wrote:BluStem wrote:rv2go wrote:BluStem wrote:
I maintain if a site is payed for then it should be yours regardless if you have a unit on it or not. Why wouldn't it?
Using this principle, you are saying someone with the financial means could reserve the whole CG for weeks and weeks without occupying a site.
You bet. If it's payed for, it's taken. Very simple.
X2 If not then don't call it renting, when I rent a car for the week it don't matter to the rental company if the car sits in the parking lot or I drive it every day.
Campgrounds have limited space and a person that actually wants to camp should be able to use a vacant site. What kind of bad planning does it take to rent a site for days you aren't even there? What's so hard about actually planning and figuring out when you actually need a campsite. State and provincial parks are meant to be used by the taxpayers and they're funded by the taxpayers and having empty sites around everywhere because of lazy and selfish people wouldn't be right, hence the existing rules.
First of all I think there are 2 instances:
One: were you reserve the site with OUT paying
Two: PAYING for a site in advance
Reserving without paying, most CG's have a check in time and if there is a no show it is rented out because it has NOT been paid for.
PAYING in advance for a site and for whatever reason you don't make it???? You paid for it which insures you the site no matter what time you pull in.
And lastly I take offense of your comment in reference to "lazy and selfish people", and "bad planning".
FYI news flash for you, not everyone RV's on a "specified, given, known a year in advance date". You are not the only type of RV'er on the road. There are many more of us that ARE ON THE ROAD more than a 7 day vacation planned in a year in advance.
We pay for sites for the convenience of pulling in when ever and if ever any damn time we want. Don't rightly care if you didn't like that the site was empty all day....I PAID in full for the convenience and insurance of that site being empty and ready for me to pull in when and if I got there.
