ReserveAmerica Refunds

FL SP refunds were credited in about 3 days plus weekend.

Don't know about Reserve America but I have experienced a delay in receiving a refund on returning an item to numerous retail stores.
In your case it may be the state's delay in refunding the payment to R.A.

Our Georgia State Parks RA refunds took about 3 days as well. I think our Recreation.gov refunds took 4-5 days...

Sixteen days you’ve waited? Gee, maybe they are behind. Maybe their workers are staying at home. Is your fast refund that important?

“PS: how come it takes so long to refund a CC but takes hours to
bill the CC for a reservation?”

Cuzz you’ve been out of the workforce toooooo long to remember.

Reserve America is just a processor.

What did the credit card statement was the vendor making the charge? The last time I used RA, the card was charged by the state park department.

And refunds are made to the credit card charged for the reservation.

Another possibility may be that the number of refunds being processed is stressing the RA system.

As for your last question - a reservation is not booked until the CC company acknowledges the funds are being held for payment to the vendor.

A refund sometimes takes the credit card company longer to process. They are setup to send you money out, not take it in.

My COE cancellations refunds were approved by the Recreation.gov contractor, and did not show up in my Amex account for about three days. Amex wants the money 'in hand' before they will credit me.

State Park in TX cancelled me 2 weeks back and Reserve America refunded my credit card ($250)3 days later.

you need to call, we can't answer the 'why'

We had a problem with Recreation.gov. We had to call them before we received our refund. For some reason they were showing that they had already giving us the refund. A phone call got it straightened out.

Twomed wrote:
FL SP refunds were credited in about 3 days plus weekend.

Yes, I received my Fl State Park refund within a few days