โAug-07-2018 06:06 PM
โAug-11-2018 06:17 AM
run100 wrote:The only answer that has ever worked is high cancellation fees and cancelling the entire reservation if they do not show on the first night. What you are seeing is the result of people being able to make reservations at a number of different locations and numerous different dates and then choosing when and where and if to go at the last minute.
My biggest gripe with the reservation systems are the high number of no-shows. Many of the sites we visit hang the "Reserved" tag showing the arrival and departure date. I regularly see no show rates between 20-30%! It's irritating when there's other campers looking for a site, but being turned away because they're "sold out." It's a waste of recreational resources.
โAug-10-2018 10:08 PM
โAug-10-2018 01:41 PM
bucky wrote:
Sleepy little SC has turned their camping into a huge ripoff. Prices thru the roof and cancelation fees are now ridiculous. We cancelled a 4 night stay 13 days out and paid $67 to cancel June 2018.
โAug-10-2018 12:45 PM
โAug-10-2018 08:59 AM
bucky wrote:Cancellation fees arenโt just for profit. They are there to prevent people from booking spots โjust in caseโ they want to go and cancelling, which keeps others from booking the spot.
Sleepy little SC has turned their camping into a huge ripoff. Prices thru the roof and cancelation fees are now ridiculous. We cancelled a 4 night stay 13 days out and paid $67 to cancel June 2018.
โAug-10-2018 04:55 AM
โAug-09-2018 05:02 AM
โAug-08-2018 07:06 PM
dhull wrote:
Ohio's new moneymaker for this year is to charge an $8 online reservation fee. If you reserve at the office upon arrival no charge but then you are pretty much limited to walk up sites.
โAug-08-2018 03:56 PM
dhull wrote:
Ohio's new moneymaker for this year is to charge an $8 online reservation fee. If you reserve at the office upon arrival no charge but then you are pretty much limited to walk up sites.
โAug-08-2018 03:55 PM
2gypsies wrote:westernrvparkowner wrote:
Article doesn't address the biggest problem, booking multiple sites and locations when reservations first open and then picking one at the last minute. Unless that is solved, what is actually changing, except maybe it will be even easier for those types to tie up even more sites for their future culling?
Another posting somewhere recently suggested that those that try to book multiple sites at different places for the same date should be red-flagged by the reservation system and blocked.
Some folks just think about themselves. :((
โAug-08-2018 03:32 PM
westernrvparkowner wrote:
Article doesn't address the biggest problem, booking multiple sites and locations when reservations first open and then picking one at the last minute. Unless that is solved, what is actually changing, except maybe it will be even easier for those types to tie up even more sites for their future culling?
โAug-08-2018 02:14 PM
Dutch_12078 wrote:
RA is a reservation management service. They can only be as good as the information provided to them by the parks. The fees charged to the guests are set by the park systems, not by RA. RA charges the parks a flat fee for the various services they provide, and how much of that is passed on to the guests is up to the parks. The cancellation fee for FL state parks is $17.75 for instance, while it's $9 for NY state parks. A few years ago FL charged guests no reservation fee, and then they changed it to the current $6.70 instead of raising the site fees. The park systems that contract with RA have a lot more control over guest fees and information than RA does.
โAug-08-2018 11:55 AM
โAug-08-2018 09:05 AM