Expectations at RV Parks - Do you adapt?
I was reading the bad reviews on rvparkreviews.com today and was struck by how some people apparently are unwilling or unable to adjust their expectations based on special circumstances. On person ...
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Pogoil wrote:
We have been traveling by RV for almost 25 years. We have stayed in many parks but do not understand the need to post reviews. We do however check the area we are in and read reviews as entertainment. Mostly the parks rated as a 1 because it rained. Also use the Good Sam book as we choose not to have a smart phone glued to our hands.
If you are using the Good Sam book then you are reading reviews, just not the ones posted on review sites. If the Good Sam rating system works for you as a way of finding a place to stay, that's great.
However, many of us are interested in more narrative detail than is available in the Good Sam guide so we rely on the reviews of others. Yes, there are stupid reviews (a "1" because it rained) but out of >200k reviews on RVParkReviews I think there are many good ones. Furthermore, I am far less interested in a park's numerical score than in the descriptive aspects of the review.
As for posting reviews for others to read, I think an important aspect of social media is being a full participant and not someone who just lurks and takes information provided by others. We rely on TripAdvisor, Yelp and RVParkReviews heavily in our travels and are active participants on all of them. JMO and I'm not in any way asking you to change the way you travel, just explaining why others choose to do something you don't feel is important.
