Survey-How do you reserve?

On-line

Wow Great response!!!!

I'm like most 90% on line, the 10% is when I have questions.

Online.

Of course, i'm kind of a late march early april camper which is prior to the season, then i just show up.

Mostly online. Probably 10% over the phone if there are questions, like finding a spot in Yellowstone to fit our rig. My OCD means I plan out a trip in advance with lots of details, so just showing up and finding a campground is out of the question. But God bless those with that sense of adventure - but I can't do it!

Popular or destination public parks: online. On the road, mom-and-pop parks: phone.

On the road, I don't normally have data service, and I often don't know how far I will get in a day. So I call in the afternoon and ask about that night. Also, because my RV is unconventional, I want to give them a chance to say no, although that has only happened once.

The mom-and-pop parks also rarely have functional online reservtion systems.

Was about 95% online. Only used phone if there was no online option.

Online.

the_vfox wrote:
On the road, we starting looking for a place to park, we call camps along our route and give them our eta. Haven't missed yet. Our planned base camps we call ahead a time and reserve them for the time we will be parking there.

That's pretty much the way we do it. We only plan ahead if we figure that getting a spot will be an issue. It rarely is because we travel mostly in the spring before school gets out, and in the fall after school starts.

We are planning a trip to North Carolina beach this fall so we will reserve a spot well ahead of time because of the popularity of vacationing in the area. We will call so we have a few questions, one of the things you have trouble doing online. We have reserved online a few times, but mostly it's better to talk to a live person so we know we can get a spot for our 40' toyhauler.

30% on the phone and 65% on-line and 5% walk up.

If we full timed it would be 95% walk up and 5% phone.

Online when we can, but many private CGs still do not do online reservations. Sometimes calling is a good thing because, as said above, you can ask questions. Many CG websites are very lacking in information.