Half off is only as valuable as what you could buy a similar product or service for elsewhere. If the Passport park lists the regular price as $40, you get it for $20.00. If another park is $35.00 and offers 10 percent discount for KOA, Good Sam, AARP etc. you pay $31.50, so you are saving $11.50, not really $20.00. Then if that Passport park is 5 miles further out, you have spent $3.00 or so additional in fuel. Now you are saving $8.50. If there are less amenities or the park is somewhat substandard compared to the other park, is $8.50 savings worth it? To some, yes. To others, No.
On top of that, you have to take into consideration the restrictions. Other threads on this subject have had posts where people have run into Passport parks only offering their least desirable sites at PPA rates. Some Passport parks charge extra for things like 50 Amp service.
You often do not save a net 50 percent at a Passport America park. It is really no different than going to a car dealer and having them tell you are saving $10,000 because the sticker on the car lists a "convenience group discount" for getting a car with power windows, power locks, power seats, windshield wipers and cruise control. The sticker says that purchased separately, those items would be $7000, but you are "only" paying $2000 by getting this package, therefore you are getting a $5000.00 discount. Then they add in the factory rebate of $3000 and tell you that the 2.9 percent finance rate somehow is a $2000 benefit and Viola, you have that $10,000 discount and you are still paying sticker price.
