What is the Passport America plan
We found a sorta neat, new RV park in the edge of the N Georgia mtns yesterday. Nothing fancy just FHU 50 amp with a bath house. Small place, concrete pads, wide sites - some on a small river and oth...
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A Passport America park tells me the park was either overpriced to begin with or it has a flaw that needs a gimmick to compensate.
From an owner’s point of view there are several problems. The idea it fills spaces during slow periods makes little sense. Those periods are slow for a reason. Saving a few dollars isn’t somehow going to make people travel to places they normally wouldn’t. So at best the park might add a guest or two a night. Then you have to take into account the fact that some of the guests who would otherwise stay at full price are also PPA members so they will be paying less than they would have if the park wasn’t PPA. If it worked out that there was two additional guests due to PPA and two otherwise full priced guests also used PPA the park gets the same revenue but has the added expenses of two more guests. Combine the math with the reputation hit I described in the beginning and you will see why I never considered putting my parks in the PPA network.
From an owner’s point of view there are several problems. The idea it fills spaces during slow periods makes little sense. Those periods are slow for a reason. Saving a few dollars isn’t somehow going to make people travel to places they normally wouldn’t. So at best the park might add a guest or two a night. Then you have to take into account the fact that some of the guests who would otherwise stay at full price are also PPA members so they will be paying less than they would have if the park wasn’t PPA. If it worked out that there was two additional guests due to PPA and two otherwise full priced guests also used PPA the park gets the same revenue but has the added expenses of two more guests. Combine the math with the reputation hit I described in the beginning and you will see why I never considered putting my parks in the PPA network.
