Passport America, worth it or not?

westernrvparkowner wrote:
It's fine that you only want a place to stop for the night and don't want any amenities. But many parks provide amenities and market to those RVers that want them. Offering those low prices to attract customers like you often means the customer that would pay the high price for the available amenities will, instead, pay that low price and still use everything. It is no different than the fact that high end restaurants with elegant furniture, fixtures and exceptional service don't offer a ninety nine cent value menu. It isn't about missing out on your $12.00. The fact is the park isn't interested in serving your market segment.

If a park doesn't want to serve that market then I expect they won't sign on with PA. No one is twisting their arm, so obviously those that do sign on see enough value in it to continue accepting it. There is some PA "churn" with parks regularly joining in and others dropping out, so presumably their needs have changed. A new park might sign on to attract new guests for instance, and then a few years later after establishing a regular repeat clientele drop out, and that's fine, PA served their purpose. Other parks have enough of a slow period where PA might attract enough business to help cover the fixed overhead. I suspect most park owners are astute enough business people, or at least have astute accountants, to know whether PA works for them or not. Obviously PA wouldn't work for your parks and that's fine...