Passport America
Seems like a no-brainer. Would save me 50% off a $130 reservation and costs $44 per year. Do I understand this correctly?
Forum Discussion
westernrvparkowner wrote:
Finally, there is no law saying their regular price has to be a fair market. If the Passport park is $40 and a better located park with superior amenities that accepts the normal 10% discounts has a published price of $35 you aren't really saving the $20.00 discount the Passport park offers. There are more than one Passport Park that has inflated it's rack price in order to offer that 50% discount.
mockturtle wrote:
Just to name one really excellent RV park you can use your PA membership for: New Frontier RV Park in Winnemucca, NV.
New Frontier is actually a good example of what can go on with PA parks. (And it does look really nice for a desert RV park.)
Their PA page says the normal rate is $35, and the PA rate is $17.50. It's not good on pull-thrus, and the PA discount can't be combined with any other discount, including the discounted winter rate.
If you go to the park's own site, it says the normal rate is $35-$40 and it looks like the higher rate is for pull-thrus. Kudos to them for basing their PA discount on that instead of the $40.
However, their discounted winter rate is $20-$25. But the PA rate is off the "normal" $35 rate even in the winter, so if you're there from mid-October to mid-April, then you'd be paying $17.50 for a site that would cost $20 without the PA discount. Better than nothing, but you're having to pay for the PA membership to get a $2.50 discount.
It might still be advisable to join PA, depending on if you're likely to use PA elsewhere. But the devil can be in the details, so don't approach it as a blanket 50% discount off what you'd otherwise be paying if you walked in off the street.
