Question re: "RV Camping Resort" time-shares at Lake Havasu?

Never been to those two resorts, but they have/had another in our local mountains that we went to. The place was okay but not great. The things that stood out about the offer was.

If we don't buy now we cannot buy at all for 3 years. Which somehow stretched to can never buy at some point in the sales pitch. So just going for the free weekend and not buying blocks you out for years.


The 20 free days of camping were limited to (if I remember correctly)
no weekends or holidays.
no more than once a month. maybe it was once a four week period I don't really remember. but I do remember that it wasn't anything that a working adult would have any interest in.

Thanks, again... and I hope my comments regarding Big Rigs didn't offend. Gotta remember, it's a big world out there! Y'know... if I were still in my 20s, I'd be right down there with 'em from dawn to dusk, burning gas and churning up the river... but I'm not... so I think we'll follow Brian's (bdpreece) lead and take the freebies and run!

I'll also make a note to check and see if there are any pop-ups in the CG.

We have stayed at both of these "resorts" and they are not that bad. The big problem is if you really like them and want a membership once you have taken them up on the freebies you are not allowed to purchase a used membership for something like 2 or 3 years and new memberships are in the high thousands. Used can be had for pennies on the dollar. If you are a boater the Emerald cove resort is right on the river. When we stayed there the big power boats start running at daybreak and roar around at full speed till dark. Our biggest complaint was that the park was so heavily used that between the smell from the sewers and the exhaust fumes from the boats we could hardly stand to be outside. They did not like it but we took our freebies and ran.

yep same here they said i won all this stuff and we were scheduled to go to cherry lakes in socal. we didn't make it i told them no, but they still call. as someone on this forum said if you have a boat it may be worth it. just didn't seem worth the hassle.

LOL! Thanks, everyone... Suzy & I have no intention whatsoever of buying into the membership... we're just going for the free stuff. The part that I'm most interested in is the 20 days free camping that they give you just for showing up, and you have a year to use them. We live full-time in Strawberry (Central Arizona) and have friends over in SoCal, so the location is perfect for a mid-way overnight on these trips.

Frankly, I doesn't bother me a bit what some guy in a bus that costs more than my house thinks about me or my 16-year old pop-up... if I cared any less, I'd be caring backwards! Anyway, my idea of camping doesn't have anything to do with a leather couch or satellite TV.

I was mostly hoping that someone might have some first-hand knowledge of either of these places, just so we know whether or not they're even worth the trouble. The $100 gas certificate will more than cover the cost of the trip over and back, and we can always use another Android device... it's really the free camping with hook-ups that's got my attention. We've never camped anywhere except at large, in undeveloped areas, and it just seems like it would be kinda neat on these trips out to the coast and back to have a place we could could just wheel into - for FREE - and not have to worry about hauling water or firing up the generator, at least for that one night and the following morning.

I'm guessing that unless someone tells me that the place is on an active earthquake fault line, or that there's been a recent sighting of a wanted axe murderer in the area, we'll probably just go ahead and sit through the presentation, watching the clock and thinking of as many ways as possible to say "No" in one word or less, then grab the freebies and split. I'll come back here to the forum with an update when we're back home, probably around November 8th... or maybe even earlier if that Android device actually works!

I sat through one of these once too. Very High pressure. Put on a track suit
and some good running shoes, and run like you've never run before!

Brian

I hope you run from this and don't even bother going. More than likely, they'll take your membership money and then when you actually go there to camp, they'll turn you away because you have a "tent"..... run! Why let temptation even knock at your door! Spend the time somewhere you know you'll enjoy and have a fantastic week-end, (or whatever).

Look online and you can buy these same memberships from people who sat through that "exciting 90 minute presentation" for a fraction of what they or you would pay. I've looked and sat through one once. We didn't like the buy now pressure and when we said we would like a day to think about the offer, they said we had to buy now. I later saw offers to sell online. If you Google search campground membership reviews you will get a good idea of what others have found. Good luck

They don't know what kind of RV you have, you were just on some call list they bought. I suspect for your 20 free nights you might have to bring something bigger than your PUP, if they are calling themselves a RV resort.

I do know, however, of at least one "RV Resort" in my area that does allow PUPs, although it does not allow camping in tents (or camping without a tent).

They must have gotten tired of fishing in the river an are trying on land.Even if you could park a pop up there after buying your neighbor in his expensive non popup may not be to happy.