RV Parks w/older RV restrictions

Old RVs and the Campground search on Good Sam.

I have emailed the Good Sam Club about adding a RV age restriction option to the campground search function on the club website. Would be useful to exclude the parks with age restrictions. I have had suggestions to call and verify with the park. With that kind of thinking, might as well tell all the campgrounds to delete their online website reservation systems since people would have to call anyway. The whole purpose of a search listing is to find campgrounds one can stay in. Seems the people with new RVs that do not want a old one next to them would benefit as well. There are several nice search options, but not one for RV age restrictions. I would appreciate anyone else who would find such a option useful letting the Good Sam Club know. They will not work on it for just a couple of people. Thanks

portscanner wrote:
I have never been refused service before.

But, I have been served refuse.

:C I'll have to remember that one. :D

D & M wrote:

msmith1199 wrote:
Ellie Mae (Donna Douglas) is going to turn 80 years old in September. Good luck with that no swim suit requirement. :)

Man, you sure do know how to kill a party

That's the most depressing thing I've ever learned.

I saw a resort type campground in Colorado that had a rule that only motorhomes were allowed in. I don't recall seeing an age restriction but I didn't consider that discrimination. His business, his rules.

I fully agree that it is mostly the "resorts" that have these rules. We are 11 this year and so far have never been refused. In fact we've never been to a park that had an age restriction. I know they are out there. The best advice is to call ahead. But if your rig is in great shape even if it is older than 10 most parks won't turn you away.

peaches&cream wrote:

msmith1199 wrote:
Turtle have you ever refused to do business at any business at all based on any reason whatsoever? What if their prices were too high or what if you don't like their products? What if you walked into a restaurant and saw cockroaches all over the place? Are you going to discriminate against that poor restaurant owner and not eat at his place just because of a few bugs and a pungent smell? Is that good discrimination or bad discrimination? We can come up with what-ifs all day long. There is a reason for this 10 year limit on RV's and I think the RV parks are well within their rights to have it of that's what they want to do.

And you did notice my RV is a 2004? That means I only have a little over a year left until I'm excluded and I'm not going to buy a new RV. Oh my gosh, maybe I'll need to get a lawyer and sue for discrimination! Or maybe I'll just need to keep my RV clean and in good shape and if I have a need to stay at one of these parks I'll talk to the manager and explain that to him and see if they'll still let me in. If not, I'll take my business down the road!

All you have to do is make a copy of the title to your MH. Each yr. (white out) the model yr. and move it up 1 yr. You will keep a 9 yr. old unit and you will "show those discriminators". :S

Or have an Airstream. Tell them it's a 1972, a 1982, a 1992, a 2002, or a 2012...could most of them tell without looking at the paperwork?

No Shoes, No Shirt, Over Ten Years Old, No Service.

As long as they apply the rule equally, a business owner has the right to reuse service to anyone.

What's not to understand?

Turtle n Peeps wrote:
I think you're confused msmith1199. In your scenario I'm not soliciting for business, they are. Big difference.

And when I was in business for myself and soliciting for business I never turned anybody down; ever. If they could pay the bill and I felt I could do the job well, I did it.

You never did say how it was good logic and business sense or why there is a reason for this 10 year limit????

On a side note, there was a man that built a business model on never turning anybody down and giving a cheap price to everybody. I heard he drove around in some POC Ford truck for years. Here is his truck.



I heard he was pretty successful or so I was told? You might have heard of him? I heard he has quite a few stores or something like that? Someone even told me he was a billionaire!!! Ya right, a guy that has quite a few stores is a billionaire and and drives a truck like that? Ha, ha, ha, ha, sure, I think it's just a story. :W

Last I heard he is "DEAD". So I'm sure he is enjoying his "Billions".

RV "campgrounds" are not alone with min/max age requirements:
Retirement communities

I can't get too worried about it one way or another. A number of times I have checked in, parked in my site and then sat down and read the list of rules that I was handed at the check in counter. Down aways on the list a number of times I have seen the "10 year rule".

I am reading this while I am sitting in a 1976 RV. That window that looks out of the office makes all the difference in the world.