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alnal326
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Apr 16, 2014

RV Park Review deferred

So I posted a review of my recent experience to RV park review about the park I didn't receive my assigned site in and they deferred it saying that it was too much personal information included about my experience and I needed to rewrite it and sum down my bad experience. The good part I wrote about the park they liked. Now how do you sum down an experience and still get across what you are saying? Is it even worth it? Why write it if you can't tell the whole truth.

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  • sounds to me like the OPs review could be in one or two short sentences. assuming that the park's web site, etc., doesn't have the statement that they will try to accommodate as to the type of site reserved but can't guarantee a specific site. If it sez that, you have no reason to fuss.

    RV CONUS quoted the original post and it is way too wordy, just MHO.
    bumpy
  • I would try one more time to reduce that part to it's base issues and see if they will accept it. While the site is a useful tool I do not take every review posted there as reliable. I have certainly seen reviews I felt were frivolous that were allowed to be posted.
  • "Personal Information" does not necessarily have to be about people in the park, but information that can be used to trace back who YOU are.

    For example, if you said you reserved site XXX and yadda, yadda, yadda, since you've giving the month/year of your stay, the park can track back who you are using those specifics. They don't want their site used for fingerpointing at anybody, just for reviews of the park. Like said previously, copy and paste the problem review for accurate replies.
  • Without seeing your unedited post it's tough to suggest how to modify. Why not paste your problem post on this thread so we can see it?
  • alnal326 wrote:
    I named no names I pretty much said what I said on the forum I started on here about not getting my reserved site.


    Since 2006, I have only had one posting problem with RVParkReviews, I inadvertantly posted to the wrong park. Similar name, similar location. Fixed it and they posted it to the correct park.

    OP Previous Thread Quote: If this is the same version posted on RV Park Reviews:
    "This is the first time we have visited this particular campground but 2 weeks before our visit we drove through and stopped at the office and made reservations and paid for 1 night. We reserved a nice looking site with the creek running behind us and were looking forward to camping on it. Upon arrival they had us moved to another site that was not as nice and no where near the creek. It was explained to me that a group of campers had come in and they gave the site to one of them. I was wondering if this had ever happened to anyone else and how they handled it? We will be back here since our daughter is in college near this campground so we don't want to upset the owners."

    Edited Version:
    This is the first time we have visited this particular campground. Two weeks before our visit we drove through and stopped at the office and made reservations, and paid for 1 night for a specific site. Upon arrival, they did not honor the specific site that I reserved. I was informed they gave my site to a another camper that was with a group.
    We will be back to visit family near this campground.

    Although, I'm not an English major, brief and concise usually wins the day. However, I did raise an English Major.:B

    It's a slow day here at the Ranch. :W:Z

    RVParkReviews is a private site, I think they provide a great service which I have benefited from over the years, where they accumulate reviews from those that choose to make them.

    Like here; I don't care if they edit, remove, etc. I don't pay them to use the site.

    It's only Wednesday, and going to warm up nice today. Time for a walk.

    Have fun and safe travels.
  • So re write it and let us know if they take it. I am just learning of reviews and it is hard to understand. I have read some really bad product reviews at the site of the retailer. I know good reviews can also be bought. I am learning to read between the lines and usually believe the majority. It's interesting
  • alnal326 wrote:
    I named no names I pretty much said what I said on the forum I started on here about not getting my reserved site.
    You mean your specific "reserved site" that they specifically say they do not guarantee on the their website? If your review was heavily weighted to the fact that the park's reservation policy didn't meet your needs, I can see where they might want you to revise your review. They are looking for reviews that help all the other RVers, things like do the utilities work, are the sites roomy, is what they advertise actually available and in good repair, is the park next to a busy train yard, is the park clean etc. When what you are upset about is clearly explained on the park's website, it really isn't fair to either the public or the park to make the review a diatribe about it. Note it yes, write a paragraph about how a policy upset your apple cart, probably not.
  • "The park was nicly landscaped with a creek...the bathrooms seemed ok, but never really used them. Wifi was spotty. Might would stay here again, but they had given away the site we reserved in person 2 weeks earlier to someone else and put us in a site that we barely fit in and was not as nice, thus the reason I am giving them a 2.".....

    :)
  • I named no names I pretty much said what I said on the forum I started on here about not getting my reserved site.
  • alnal326 wrote:
    So I posted a review of my recent experience to RV park review about the park I didn't receive my assigned site in and they deferred it saying that it was too much personal information included about my experience and I needed to rewrite it and sum down my bad experience. The good part I wrote about the park they liked. Now how do you sum down an experience and still get across what you are saying? Is it even worth it? Why write it if you can't tell the whole truth.


    Could the key word be "too much personal information"? Where you naming names in your review?

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