RV Parks w/older RV restrictions

D & M wrote:

KFS wrote:
If you really think of it maybe more inspection should be required at every check in.

I'm paying for the privilege of putting my kids to sleep within spitting distance of someone who may be fixing to be one drunken lighting of a pilot light away from tragedy.

Maybe a Camper Courtesy test at check in? ;)

Whoa, that's a pretty big leap there, Buckeye. Equating a vehicles age with its owners actions is a non starter.

I have a friend that belongs to a club for RV vintage tin. These people have rigs fronm the 90's and 80's that are in pristime condition because their owners respect themselves and their possessions. My friend just had her 1980's Winnebago painted and it looks factory fresh. She doesn't drink and she loves to go RVing.

I think you misunderstood me. I agree with you. I'd rather see an inspection/test for any age rig than arbitrary age requirements that assume your ability to spend makes you a better camper.

We have a 1995 Fifth Wheel - clean and neat but certainly not new. :) I think we're riff raff ;) but we would pass camper courtesy tests.

My opinion aside, private parks have a right to have their standards and it sounds like they are using it as a tool. We camp state and Army Corps parks with a no alcohol rule. Our experience is that no ranger has ever knocked on my door to scan my kitchen for wine. It has been used to chase out the loud "party hearty" crowd before they even got set up - and I'm okay with that.

Jarlaxle wrote:

Oaklevel wrote:
Some of the 30-50 year old Airstreams & others are bring more than the new RVs I really think the 10 year rule is one of the stupid snobbish things that I have ever seen........ at the Beach we often see a 50s era tin can of some sort it is one of the neatest trailers I have ever seen.... I love the old Shastas too...................

Anyway in 30 years of camping I have not yet run into the 10 year old rule on the east coast...........

I would bet not one park employee in fifty could tell you the age of an Airstream without looking at the registration!

QFT (quoted for truth)

Again, it is just another tool in the park hosts arsenal to keep undesirables out of their park.

Why they don't just increase price to accomplish this I don't know. Start charging $79 a night would have the same effect.

Hmm.. Sorta....in some cases I would drag my scruffy butt to an $80 a night place. My stickers are starting to peel!!

Weeds out the rif-raff?

*gulp*

My rig is getting up there in age. Riff-raffdom here I come!!

But seriously, like numerous peeps have said, it is just a tool to prevent bad apples for getting into the bunch. Nobody wants what appears to be a perverts lair right next to them.

KFS wrote:
If you really think of it maybe more inspection should be required at every check in.

I'm paying for the privilege of putting my kids to sleep within spitting distance of someone who may be fixing to be one drunken lighting of a pilot light away from tragedy.

Maybe a Camper Courtesy test at check in? ;)

Whoa, that's a pretty big leap there, Buckeye. Equating a vehicles age with its owners actions is a non starter.

I have a friend that belongs to a club for RV vintage tin. These people have rigs fronm the 90's and 80's that are in pristime condition because their owners respect themselves and their possessions. My friend just had her 1980's Winnebago painted and it looks factory fresh. She doesn't drink and she loves to go RVing.

KFS wrote:
If you really think of it maybe more inspection should be required at every check in.

I'm paying for the privilege of putting my kids to sleep within spitting distance of someone who may be fixing to be one drunken lighting of a pilot light away from tragedy.

Maybe a Camper Courtesy test at check in? ;)

That is exactly what the 10 yr rule does. It is a Camper Courtesy test even before check-in. Restriction to Class A only weeds them out even more. If it has Resort in the name theres a pretty good chance your neighbors will be proud of their MH's and it rules out a bunch of the rif raft, (not all but most). I search out these MH parks to stop at.

BobR wrote:

westernrvparkowner wrote:

BobR wrote:
You need to start asking "How old is the campground" when confronted with the question on the age of your RV. We have our standards too!

Actually no one would ever question you if you chose not to stay in a park because of it's condition, it's unseemly odor, or because there were a bunch of banjo playing hillbillies sitting around looking for someone who can squeal like a pig. Why is it such a crime for a park to also be a little discretionary in what they allow in?

Many people find the question offensive as it did you when the question was reversed. You have every right to deny access to anyone you find my be disruptive to your other guests or personnel.

I don 't find it offensive at all. I encourage people to be as selective and discriminating in their selection of a park as possible. Usually works in my favor. I just found it a bit hypocritical for people to be furious that a park would dare to screen the rigs and set ups they allow, yet every person surely screens the parks they stay in. Just sounds like a double standard to me.

If you really think of it maybe more inspection should be required at every check in.

I'm paying for the privilege of putting my kids to sleep within spitting distance of someone who may be fixing to be one drunken lighting of a pilot light away from tragedy.

Maybe a Camper Courtesy test at check in? ;)

westernrvparkowner wrote:

BobR wrote:
You need to start asking "How old is the campground" when confronted with the question on the age of your RV. We have our standards too!

Actually no one would ever question you if you chose not to stay in a park because of it's condition, it's unseemly odor, or because there were a bunch of banjo playing hillbillies sitting around looking for someone who can squeal like a pig. Why is it such a crime for a park to also be a little discretionary in what they allow in?

Many people find the question offensive as it did you when the question was reversed. You have every right to deny access to anyone you find my be disruptive to your other guests or personnel.

BobR wrote:
You need to start asking "How old is the campground" when confronted with the question on the age of your RV. We have our standards too!

Actually no one would ever question you if you chose not to stay in a park because of it's condition, it's unseemly odor, or because there were a bunch of banjo playing hillbillies sitting around looking for someone who can squeal like a pig. Why is it such a crime for a park to also be a little discretionary in what they allow in?

Gruffy wrote:
Well, I've been there done that. 10 year rule is often in the camp ground "rules" but have stayed in Encore parks in Arizona that have a "Skunk Hollow" where the old and junky stuff end up.

10 years might be a bit fussy, but some of the 20 plus campers were just junk. We found a better class of park.

I really wish posters would give the names of the 10 yr. rule campgrounds. I would be happy to stop at them as I travel. Cost is no problem. :B