Survey-How do you reserve?

Reserveamerica 99.9% of the time.

Online all the time unless the campground doesn't take online reservations, then it's a phone call.

99.9999999999999% on line.

The one and only time we celled the reservation system by telephone, it was messed up.

Don't know if it was them or me but still messed up. Never had an online reservation mistake.

If we make reservations at all, it is usually by phone.
Many of the campgrounds we go to do not have reservations, they are strictly first-come-first-served.

Almost always online.

100% by phone. But we have only done it a few times and we call the CG we would like to stay at an hour or 2 before we expect to be there. Usually we just roll in about 3 pm. We rarely have to find another GC.

On long trips we generally don't have a predefined schedule so we start calling ahead at about 2:00 or 3:00 PM. We use Microsoft Streets & Trip plus Sam's campground directory to find parks 1 to 2 hours ahead of our anticipated evening stop. In 10 years and 52,000 miles we only had one time that it appeared we might not be able to find an RV park to stay in. Then one of the parks we had contacted called back to advised they had a cancelation and now had room for us.

Dave

korbe wrote:
About 100% of our public campground reservations are done online (Reserve America or Recreation.gov) and west of the rockies. About 100% of our reservationa west of the rockies for private parks are made over the phone.

Ditto for us east of the Mississippi.

One danger with on-line reservations is with the CGs that send an e-mail with the information to the CG office account. That works fine when you're working several weekdays ahead, but not always when you're at lunchtime or later on the day of arrival (especially overnight stays). If they don't check their mail frequently, your confirmation usually arrives a day or two after you leave!

On-line 70%, phone 25%, just showing up with fingers crossed 5%.

Only online.