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Bald Ridge Park Lake Lanier, GA

kendive
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Staying here now. Gonna leave early because of the rude camp host at the gate. Kinda rude to guest we had last night and overall rude about everything else. There is a private park called twin lakes in Cumming, Ga we will be looking to stay at next time and or finish our trip up here.

Wife and I dont drag our camper 6 hours to be treated like this. Never ever had issues in all the years in RVing.

RVer beware

Overall nice area but not worth putting up with the angry people at the gate. Hopefully the will move on soon.
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kendive
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I understand and again not breaking any rules. She was rude to our guests and she was rude to the couple guests staying in site 34 after I talked to him. So I do believe the lady has an issue with visitors.

Most of the parks we stay in just charge a day use fee for your guests to stay and have no issues. This park they were free but had to get harassed to get in.

I talked to the Park and they will address the issue and yes we will stay away from Georgia's Lake COE Parks in the future.

There are too many parks to stay at to put up with that.

Bird_Freak
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kendive wrote:
Bird Freak wrote:
OP never has said what happened or anything about the problem. I am starting to think their guest was out of line somehow. One person is said to be rude so you won't return to any of the parks?


Man everyone wants to point the finger... Why even post issues in here. One reason I'm not on the forums that often.

Well Talking to the neighbors in site 34. They also had an issues with the troll Ms Strickland and she was also rude to there guests that had to check in. We left today (5 Days Early) and I talked to Mr. Strickland and told him that your Wife needs to chill a little about having guest coming to visit and not act like it's a pain and just killing her to let them in. I told them you do not own the park and you are just getting a free stay to be Park Attendants.

Bird Freak. I don't break laws or rules and never ever had an issue at a park until now and we camp alot and for many years. LOL

I will be calling the Park Ranger Office to file an complaint and I already called Rec.gov and file one and they are issuing a refund.

view2a.thrill wrote:
Kendive:

Rather than repeating that this one host was โ€œrudeโ€ or โ€œkinda rudeโ€, could you give specific examples of the treatment you received?

To let the actions of one person at one COE campground sour you on all COE campgrounds is shortsighted. We have found that COE campgrounds are well-maintained and with the Senior Pass discount are bargains.


Well the rude park atten to our guest was not the reason for coming back to COE parks. It's the fact that they lock you in at 10:30pm until 7am. We wanted to go to the Georgia Aquarium night adventure and the Wife was so scared that we would not make it back by curfew that we did not go and she would not had fun anyway worrying about being locked out. We are too old to be on a curfew. The reason we come up to Atlanta in to visit friends and see the sites with Atlanta traffic there is a big possibly you may not make it back in time.

So yes we will stay away from parks with curfews. Here in Florida they put electronic gates and you can come and go with a code. Maybe these COE Parks can do that???

I also feel sorry for the late comer that needs to setup late after the gate closes... Can't do that. With the Florida Parks you just call ahead and they give you the code to get in. Very Nice.

I guess we are just spoiled with the way we have always been treated in other parks we have stayed at and not had to worry about guests being treated like they should not be here.

We are pretty easy going and things like this really would not get me enough to post it and I normally never post on here, but she just really hit a nerve I guess.

Sorry I even brought it up... I will keep my mouth shut next time and just call the Park.

But I don't think there will never be a next time because 99.9% of the time expect this stay st this park we have a great time and don't ever even talk to the host except when we check in.

Happy Camping.
Not really trying to point fingers at anyone. You would be surprised how many folks would post about rude host just trying to inforce rules as to how many visitors you could have or how long they could stay. Lots of folks call rude if they just hear something they don't like and to be fair you gave us no details as to how they were being rude.
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kendive
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Bird Freak wrote:
OP never has said what happened or anything about the problem. I am starting to think their guest was out of line somehow. One person is said to be rude so you won't return to any of the parks?


Man everyone wants to point the finger... Why even post issues in here. One reason I'm not on the forums that often.

Well Talking to the neighbors in site 34. They also had an issues with the troll Ms Strickland and she was also rude to there guests that had to check in. We left today (5 Days Early) and I talked to Mr. Strickland and told him that your Wife needs to chill a little about having guest coming to visit and not act like it's a pain and just killing her to let them in. I told them you do not own the park and you are just getting a free stay to be Park Attendants.

Bird Freak. I don't break laws or rules and never ever had an issue at a park until now and we camp alot and for many years. LOL

I will be calling the Park Ranger Office to file an complaint and I already called Rec.gov and file one and they are issuing a refund.

view2a.thrill wrote:
Kendive:

Rather than repeating that this one host was โ€œrudeโ€ or โ€œkinda rudeโ€, could you give specific examples of the treatment you received?

To let the actions of one person at one COE campground sour you on all COE campgrounds is shortsighted. We have found that COE campgrounds are well-maintained and with the Senior Pass discount are bargains.


Well the rude park atten to our guest was not the reason for coming back to COE parks. It's the fact that they lock you in at 10:30pm until 7am. We wanted to go to the Georgia Aquarium night adventure and the Wife was so scared that we would not make it back by curfew that we did not go and she would not had fun anyway worrying about being locked out. We are too old to be on a curfew. The reason we come up to Atlanta in to visit friends and see the sites with Atlanta traffic there is a big possibly you may not make it back in time.

So yes we will stay away from parks with curfews. Here in Florida they put electronic gates and you can come and go with a code. Maybe these COE Parks can do that???

I also feel sorry for the late comer that needs to setup late after the gate closes... Can't do that. With the Florida Parks you just call ahead and they give you the code to get in. Very Nice.

I guess we are just spoiled with the way we have always been treated in other parks we have stayed at and not had to worry about guests being treated like they should not be here.

We are pretty easy going and things like this really would not get me enough to post it and I normally never post on here, but she just really hit a nerve I guess.

Sorry I even brought it up... I will keep my mouth shut next time and just call the Park.

But I don't think there will never be a next time because 99.9% of the time expect this stay st this park we have a great time and don't ever even talk to the host except when we check in.

Happy Camping.

Bird_Freak
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OP never has said what happened or anything about the problem. I am starting to think their guest was out of line somehow. One person is said to be rude so you won't return to any of the parks?
Eddie
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JGRVING
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To let the actions of one person at one COE campground sour you on all COE campgrounds is shortsighted. We have found that COE campgrounds are well-maintained and with the Senior Pass discount are bargains.



I agree.....We just camped last weekend at Duckett Mill COE on Lake Lanier and the camp hosts were as friendly as could be....we had the same experience at Old Federal in May...very friendly hosts...we have never had an unfriendly host at any COE park. Haven't been to Bald Ridge in a few years though. Jennifer
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view2a_thrill
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Kendive:

Rather than repeating that this one host was โ€œrudeโ€ or โ€œkinda rudeโ€, could you give specific examples of the treatment you received?

To let the actions of one person at one COE campground sour you on all COE campgrounds is shortsighted. We have found that COE campgrounds are well-maintained and with the Senior Pass discount are bargains.

kendive
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Rocky Top wrote:
kendive-

Give the Lake Lanier Corps office a call at 770-945-9531 to let them know about your visit. I think they would be glad to discuss the issue with you. If they don't know about the problem, they can't help you with it.

RT


Will do... We are leaving tmr cutting our 8 day stay down to 4 days. Never to come back again. We called Rec.gov already and t8ld them to refund the days and why we were leaving early.

Rocky_Top
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kendive-

Give the Lake Lanier Corps office a call at 770-945-9531 to let them know about your visit. I think they would be glad to discuss the issue with you. If they don't know about the problem, they can't help you with it.

RT

kendive
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Bird Freak wrote:
I have to wonder why you even have to deal with her after you checked in. Are you doing something against the rules or is she a power hungry troll?


I think you hit the nail on the head with power hungry troll.

Were just camping in a small travel trailer and no not breaking any rules. No reason for that. We're too old to cause trouble anyway... You can tell she is just mad at life and was rude when we checked in some visitors from the area. I use to live up here and moved back to Pensacola FL. We will stay away from Cor of Engineers parks from now on. Florida and state parks are muck better to us. I have a bad vib on cor parks now.

Bird_Freak
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I have to wonder why you even have to deal with her after you checked in. Are you doing something against the rules or is she a power hungry troll?
Eddie
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kendive
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fla-gypsy wrote:
sdianel wrote:
I would call the Corps of Engineers office and complain. Recreation
404-562-5134.


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I think we will do that. Thanks for the tip. It is just this certain lady with the initials BJS when we first checked in there was the sweetest older couple and we're very nice and helpful but this lady up there now all I can say is just wow. We feel like we at a concentration camp or something with her in charge of who goes in and out.

magnusfide
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kendive wrote:
Staying here now. Gonna leave early because of the rude camp host at the gate....

RVer beware

Overall nice area but not worth putting up with the angry people at the gate. Hopefully the will move on soon.

Definitely post your assessment at TripAdvisor.com under accommodations. As mentioned in other threads, there's been a problem with RV Park Reviews censoring negative reviews. So TripAdvisor.com has become popular with RVers. You might want to consider staying at Don Carter Georgia State Park. They have some full hook ups on Lake Lanier in a quiet area north of Gainesville. Arrive early to get the nicer sites. Very polite staff and easy access from I-985. http://www.gastateparks.org/DonCarter
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fla-gypsy
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sdianel wrote:
I would call the Corps of Engineers office and complain. Recreation
404-562-5134.


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sdianel_-acct_c
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I would call the Corps of Engineers office and complain. Recreation
404-562-5134.
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