Reservations at federal parks
While making reservations at Army Corps of Engineer and Forest Service sites,I came across a few things. One is that the COE parks will only take credit cards from now on. Since credit card companies ...
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Yosemite Sam1 wrote:
The fees for use of credit card is still cheaper than hiring a full time employee just to process and deposit checks and cash that call for a trip to the bank for the latter.
That's it. I stayed at a first come first served national monument campground that went to credit card payment only. They had a kiosk where you picked a site, and then went to swipe your card in the machine every day to pay for it. I talked to one of the rangers about it, and told them it was a lot more convenient for me than having $22.50 exact cash, or have to carry and write checks for every night, etc.
The ranger said the credit card system worked out much better for them too rather than accepting cash/checks. The park had to have 2 rangers sit in a locked room together and both count all the cash every day to verify it, take it to the bank, etc. The cost of their time was a huge savings for them as well.
