Campsite mixup - new one for us
Has this ever happened to anyone else? We've been in western Colorado for about a month, staying cool in the mountains, camping in forest campgrounds or boondocking.
We crossed over the Continental Divide yesterday and we knew it would be busier. Our plan was to stay at Halfmoon Creek Campground or boondock in the forest but we took a wrong turn and ended up at Turquoise Lake so we decided to see if there were any opened sites. Most had reserved signs even though no one had shown up yet but we got lucky and found a beautiful site with a lake view and no reservations until July 8th. Most likely someone had canceled. So we paid for a few days at the self pay station and put the tag on the post. A little while later the hosts came around, gave us a hang tag for our RV and marked it in their book.
We went into town today for about four hours and when we came back there was a popup in our site and our tag had been replaced. We went to the host and they told us they thought that we had left so they gave the site to new people. We don't know is if the new people removed our tag but even so we had paid for the site and never told the hosts that we weren't planning on coming back.
The new people have gone back to their house to get their boat. The hosts are going to tell them that they have to leave.
We're flabbergasted. The hosts told us that we should have left something to mark the site as occupied. Isn't that what the post tag does? They also said that one time somebody left two chairs and when they came back to their site the chairs where gone and another person was camping in their site.
We crossed over the Continental Divide yesterday and we knew it would be busier. Our plan was to stay at Halfmoon Creek Campground or boondock in the forest but we took a wrong turn and ended up at Turquoise Lake so we decided to see if there were any opened sites. Most had reserved signs even though no one had shown up yet but we got lucky and found a beautiful site with a lake view and no reservations until July 8th. Most likely someone had canceled. So we paid for a few days at the self pay station and put the tag on the post. A little while later the hosts came around, gave us a hang tag for our RV and marked it in their book.
We went into town today for about four hours and when we came back there was a popup in our site and our tag had been replaced. We went to the host and they told us they thought that we had left so they gave the site to new people. We don't know is if the new people removed our tag but even so we had paid for the site and never told the hosts that we weren't planning on coming back.
The new people have gone back to their house to get their boat. The hosts are going to tell them that they have to leave.
We're flabbergasted. The hosts told us that we should have left something to mark the site as occupied. Isn't that what the post tag does? They also said that one time somebody left two chairs and when they came back to their site the chairs where gone and another person was camping in their site.
