What's up with CGs?
Made a reservation today and immediately got this email from the CG management, with a "Read Receipt Requested": ----- No abusive, belligerent or loud activity will be allowed. ANY AND ALL ILLEGAL...
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willald wrote:
They are experiencing more and more folks that don't understand common camping etiquette, or just don't care or think the rules apply to them.
Way too many folks are out there with RVs now due to COVID, fresh out of their 5 star hotels they are used to.
Hopefully once COVID is gone, most of those people will dump their RVs (making a great used market for the rest of us), and go back to their 5 star hotels. Then maybe campgrounds won't have to be like this.
I doubt newbies accustomed to 5 star hotels are the primary rule breakers. They might make an innocent mistake but are unlikely to be obnoxious.
More likely with heavy demand, parks can screen out undesirables.
- If a park is running at 25% occupancy and struggling financially, owners may be hesitant to kick people out unless the bad behavior is extreme. Problem is letting marginal behavior stand can create a downward spiral as it scares away good customers and tend to be replaced by bad customers and to draw them, you have to lower rates which draws more bad customers.
- If the park has 120% demand, if someone breaks the rules, it's easy to replace them, so there is little incentive for the owner to put up with bad behavior. As long as the owner doesn't get overzealous about it, it develops a good reputation for the park which draws more good customers and in turn the owner can raise rates.
