Passport America and its ilk

I first discovered PA four years back, when my father was dying in the San Diego VA hospital. We pulled in to town, to respond to a real medical crisis and quickly found that we were, #1, going to need to be there for a long time, weeks at best. #2 were in a lot of trouble, as it was summer, and parks wanted $100+ a night and had no availability on Friday or Saturday nights. We found Santa Fe Park, which was an ideal location. They honored the PA rate for our entire stay, which ended up being nearly a month. We paid less than $40 a night, and saved over $1500, as compared to any other option. Since then, we have been loyal fans of PA, and usually recover our annual dues pretty quickly. We have stayed at parks that vary from pretty rough to beautiful, and never paid more than 1/2 of the going rate in the area, sometimes a heck of a lot less. On one hand it's not for everybody, on the other, the claims by some that they must be jacking rates up, or that it isn't really a half price offer, are incorrect.