RV park or resort?

What is the difference between a cafe, a restaurant, and a diner?

Nothing, it is only what the owner chose to name it.

IMHO, the only difference between a campground and a resort is about $20. I usually avoid any place that calls itself a resort.

Personally to me a campground is more rustic and may have a few nice amenities. A resort should offer level cement pads and a lot of high end ammenities such as a clubhouse, pools and spas and so on! I've been to many "resorts" that would barely pass for a state park dry camping spot. Like wise i've been to many "campgrounds" that would rival a 5star hotel!

And website pictures are very misleading.

One would like to think that a resort has amenities such as a pool, a playground, putt putt golf etc. but these days it seems that if there is a bit of grass between the sites some of them like to call themselves resorts.

For us, since we have no interest in the pool etc. if we see resort in the name, we look elsewhere. If nothing else it will be more than what is simply named a CG.

They are all campgrounds in my book. :)

Just what the owner named the place, means nothing.

Old-Biscuit wrote:

RV Resort......Pools/spas, BBQs at site, fire places, concrete parking, grassy manicured sites, fancy landscaping, hooty-tooty, etc.

The rv resort not to far from my stick house doesn't have any of that stuff. Doesn't even have free breakfast. Guess it isn't what it claims to be. But ran by nice folks!! And it has everything it claims to have, except the resort part. But it is a RV Resort, because that is what it says on the internet. Has to be, cause I read it on the internet.

What I like is when they call themselves an "RV Resort & Campground".... lmao

We learned pretty quickly that no matter what they name the place, or even how it appears on their site map, take a look online using Google Maps or something before placing a reservation. We have found information supplied by the venue to be misleading, to say the least, in some cases. That "large shaded site" turns out to be rather average / small with campers packed in pretty close with a scattering of trees near by when you see it from a satellite view of reality.

Many resorts have lots of extras. of course you pay for them. Free breakfast. Special programs and entertainment. Free trash pickup. Some free some not. Cost is $60 upwards a night. Most have better weekly and monthly rates. They cater to longer time snow birds for the winter months. Many actually have small cottages (stick type) you can rent or buy and pay rent on the space mingled with the RVs that come in.