our very first camping trip with our TT and also first time to St. Augustine fl. We had reservations to KOA on pope rd. We had planned to try the ghost tours but ended up see'ing only one due to the concert which closed the entire town down during the night.
The CG review was 3.5 from what we read (after), and seemed the majority of low scores was for CS.
We got there during weekday, hectic with thunderstorms/lightning and rain which made visibility so bad, I dropped down to 5 - 10 mph as I couldn't see in front of me and but the traffic was still moving so I didn't want to stop and get hit from behind.
But we got to the KOA on pope rd. The person checking us in, gave us a very very fast and brief info on the park; internet, camp site, etc., then passing us some papers/brochures and have a nice day.
Go back to truck and wife and I look at the camp layout and where she said to go and see how we can get there. We do find it and setup, its different than our CG where we stay (we just started fulltime), so after un-hitch and set up leveling, we have to undo it as our water pipe is diff place than where it is in our CG, and our hose doesn't reach. Remove blocks, lift up levelers, Re-hitch truck, adjust some, park, and do it all over again but we have water hooked up.
After we found out that the town will shut down trf due to concert, and no tours are being held, we went to KOA office and see if we can get any info or recommendations on things to do. the conversation went sort of like:
Q on things to do/see outside of the town
A don't know
Q any place close by to see
A don't know
and so on.../
We made do though, we drove around, found some great food places to eat, brought some clothes and good time at beach.
weekend, the sewer side where we were parked backed up, and everyone parked on the sites on that line got backed up big time. omg the smell, it was so bad, some people walked to office and we followed and told them our site as flooding and it was smelling bad.
I guess they fixed it as the flooding seemed to stop but the pool of brown water and the smell is still there. it took a while before the flood drained back to ground but the smell still lingered, and my sewer hose was laying in that pool of water!! omg. I spent a while using whatever cleaner I had to sanitize my hose wheww. I threw away the shoes I wore while cleaning up that area too as I had to step in that place (after flood gone), to clean up my things which got wet from that pool.
I said guessed they fixed it, as they did not come around to say it was okay to drain our black/grey tanks. I walked around and knocked on the door of other campers in that area to see if it was good to go. They didn't know either, but said looks like it and they will try but go slow in case.
The rubbish pickup was timely and the CG is close by to lots of things, but if the person working there is not helpful, have your map/gps onhand, and just drive : )
I would give this CG a 3, and our CG where we fulltime at definitely
beats this koa in all area's hands down.
that's our take from our first camping trip with our TT and hope to visit other CG soon.
bill & jodi
