What is it with campgrounds nowadays?
Well we've been on the road now for about 2 months. It's been a few years since we've rv'd and boy have things changed with the campgrounds. Not only are they more expensive (like everything else in t...
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While some jobs require lots of training, such as being a doctor or a jet aircraft technician, owning a campground on seems to be tied to the size of a person check book account. I would like to see as I said before, all campground reviews allow for comments about poorly managed campgrounds. When we get away from the franchise operations, the amount of training and experience of the owner, is anyone's guess. In this day of computers, I still run into some campgrounds where the reservations, etc. are kept on post it notes stuck on a calendar.
I even ran into one a couple of summers back where I had called for a reservation about a week ahead but when I got there and gave the owner my name. He just stared at me and told me he was trying to remember my reservation. Said he had a photographic memory and kept all reservations in his head, was a fairly new owner/operator. Several others came in to check in and it was chaos. If the guy had a photographic memory, his camera either didn't have any film in it or his computer chip was full and needed changed..
There are a number of good software programs to help manage a campground and since I enjoy software, I have downloaded a free trial or two, just to check them out. I liked one where you could even blackball some campers. Put in their name and it would pop up that the campground was full the nights they wanted to stay.
Most of the franchise places, maybe all of them, use that companies software and usually very few snafus when checking in.
I even ran into one a couple of summers back where I had called for a reservation about a week ahead but when I got there and gave the owner my name. He just stared at me and told me he was trying to remember my reservation. Said he had a photographic memory and kept all reservations in his head, was a fairly new owner/operator. Several others came in to check in and it was chaos. If the guy had a photographic memory, his camera either didn't have any film in it or his computer chip was full and needed changed..
There are a number of good software programs to help manage a campground and since I enjoy software, I have downloaded a free trial or two, just to check them out. I liked one where you could even blackball some campers. Put in their name and it would pop up that the campground was full the nights they wanted to stay.
Most of the franchise places, maybe all of them, use that companies software and usually very few snafus when checking in.
