We Got KICKED OUT of our RV Park | Fulltime RV Living | The Downside to Fulltime RV Life
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- Think there's NO DRAMA in RV life? Think again! Our video highlights what happens when you choose the wrong campground to spend a week relaxing and unwinding! While we do give some consideration to user reviews, we don't always mark a campground off our list just because of a handful of poor reviews! Unfortunately, we paid the price this time and will now consider ALL reviews that pertain to power shortages and general upkeep! Let our mistake save you the drama of dealing with a park manager that thinks your "big rig is taking all the power out of their park". One highlight that came from this huge inconvenience, is that our next campground, just outside of Glacier National Park, was able to accommodate us four days early! Thanks to getting kicked out, we got to see Glacier three times instead of just once, which we originally had planned! Oh, and our new campground had plenty of electricity for ALL of the rigs in their campground and was well kept!
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Love when places say the pool is closed due to covid but we all know it's just an excuse so they dont have to maintain it.
The owner actually said it was open, but after looking at it we decided it was not going to be ok to get in.
But charge full price when no amenities can be accessed!
Exactly!
why does it matter. if its closed its closed.
@@awack_ Because they are advertsing an amenity and charging a premuim price for something that is not available.
Thank you so much for the heads-up, from all of us full time rv'ers. We will never stop there, and will continue to pass the message.
Thanks for watching! We made the video so no one would go there and have to deal with what we did!
Thank you for your honesty and more importantly, naming this disgusting rv camp site. We all need to start naming names of camp sites and even RV Dealers that are questionable. By bringing thses entities to the forfront they will either change their ways or go out of business. Let us all get together and share the bad stories & experiences so others can avoid!!
This place would have been pretty nice even with no power, if the owner would have just cared a little bit!
Great idea
Oh that stinks. We recently got kicked out of our permanent campground because we used our E-bikes (manager stated it violated their (outdated) motorized vehicle rules, but there were other campers that had real motorcycles, atv's etc and that was ok). We had only been in there a month and suddenly we felt like outsiders. In fact the manager kept referring to us as the 'newbies'. When my fiance' put the e-bike situation on his private FB page, the manager found out, she knocked on our door and very angrily told us to pack our bags and leave immediately. We're glad to be out of there. Bad vibes and their pool was never open.
Because of this experience we now spend so much time vetting places before we stay! If there is any indication of majority fulltime residents, power issues, management issues or things not working we just move on to the next place!
You should list the name and location of the campground so others know and can make informed decisions.
I live full time at an RV park mostly full time folks here since 2020 they had to Allow more monthly permanent residents . Lots of complainers give bad reviews of our place. It is best neighbors and good management really care here , I had serious mental health episode when I was get off of medications. I had few negative reports from neighbors who didn't know me , management really saved my life by not kicking me out in my mental emotional breakdown . Beautiful people . I have to give back and show my appreciation and gratitude to these people. I have lived here ,5 years this year. I will pick up litter and offer my assistance to anybody here . I had a nasty divorce and bad year 2023; they knew I was a good guy and chit happens. In Vancouver BC here it's ridiculous rents for apartments and housing. In 2020 we fled the city. I'm forever grateful for tswassen RV resort and all the staff and maintace folks. In RV parks the management. This place is respectful to those of us who deserve to be and who have proved to be good people. As long as your human , chit will happen. Its what we do after the storms that reveals our true nature and character. There will allways be judgements and label others at all parks I'm grateful this place has a manager with heart and sees the good In people and I am very grateful . We all just gotta chill and mind your own RV site and don't be so weak and offended by others behavior. Society has gone weak and offended vs old school 😢😢😢
We left an rv park once. The red flag should of been the 9.5 speed limit signs. They had rules for rules. The biggest thing I learned was don't stay at rv parks that mainly have permanent residence. It seemed we were always being watched by the full-time residence. The park was a real click. Why they even rented space to travelers just passing through, I don't know. We lost money because they don't give refunds for early departure. Didn't care left early anyways to get out of there. Never pay a month in advance if you've never been to the park beforehand to check it out.
Great advice! I love your comment about the rules have rules, because we got a welcome brochure once that was two full pages of rules! I felt like they were going to give us a pop quiz after we got settled in!
We agree!
I lived in a park like that for 14 years. Changed hands twice, and a pretty steady stream of managers. I was a trucker so I’d be home 2 or 3 days and leave for a couple of months.
The last owners thought that the permanent residents should clean the sites, including the leaves. I told the owner that I don’t do leaves but I do have a chainsaw. That didn’t go over well.
I moved less than three months after retirement, no way was I going to stay.
I agree with your comment. I stayed at a county campground that allows seasonal sites. My friends and I were just sitting there minding our own business and this guy rides up on a golf cart and goes, “just so you know they don’t allow alcohol in state parks” we had beers in our hands. I replied, “good thing this is a county park, cuz state parks don’t allow golf carts either”. Some people just need to mind their damn business.
@@dinospumoni8860 that’s funny 🤣
I take bad reviews very seriously (on anything) Rave and good reviews are too easy to planted by the owner or bought and paid for. Thanks for the warning !
You're welcome! You are 100% correct! Too many small companies have friends/family write good reviews for them so they can't always be trusted! On the flip side, I don't take every bad review to heart because I understand people have different expectations. We will take electric/general upkeep reviews a bit more seriously in the future though!
Take ALL reviews with a grain of salt. Many people are spiteful and will post bad reviews as quickly as those who post glowing reviews.
@@PavingNewPaths if a place deserves a bad review it's places like that!! They're deceptive from the word go!!! You may save a lot of people some headache & heartache! They should 🚫 NOT be in business!!
Yes but people only write a review when they are mad. Nobody complains when all is well, so you don’t see any good reviews. Only the bad.
@Beardless Guy No, no. Sorry bud, but he's entirely correct. People are much more motivated to leave a negative review than a postive one. Common sense would tell you that.
With that out the way, do you think you could work on yourself a bit and improve how you communicate with others? I appreciate it's your experience in life which has lead you to communicating so poorly, but do try to stop the cycle yourself instead of passing your struggle onto the next guy. You'll feel better, and so will everyone else around you.
You got this buddy. Be a man. Shoulders back!
The most epic horrible experience I had was in my trailer in Virginia at a campsite. I woke at 1am because the trailer next to me was on fire, I hastily reconnected it to my hitch, pulled all cables and just as I got onto the truck cab, fires instantly erupted at 6 trailers!! Apparently lightning was hitting the power line somewhere close by and making it into the trailers ultimately burning them up, for whatever reason even new surge suppressors didn't help these people.
Oh my goodness that sounds terrifying! Glad you got out before yours caught fire!
Surge suppressors are made to protect from surges on the incoming line, not really designed to protect from lighting strikes. Especially if the electrical system/grid in the park is shoddy and lacks a proper grounding system.
Oh thank you. You took me back about 10 years ago when my husband and I were Camp Host's. We were recent empty nesters and it was one of the best experiences of my life. As a rule of thumb people who go camping and or hiking go with nothing but the best of intentions. They usually intend to relax, hike, fish, the whole relaxing ball of wax. We hosted for about 5 years during the summer and worked from Northern Washington to the border of California and Mexico on the Santa Fe trail. Sure we had a couple of hiccups, like no electricity, water, drunk people occasionally, but for the most part the people were nice, friendly and they came for a good time or to relax. Like I said THANX for the memories your video brought back. Hope your travels all go well. Take Care.
We made the video to show that no matter how much you plan and prepare RV life does not always work out the way you expect it to! That being said getting told to leave was the best thing for us as we got four extra days at Glacier National Park!
We had similar issues at other campgrounds. Even if the campground couldn't correct the problem I've never had to wait more than a few minutes for assistance. KOA is our absolute last choice in campgrounds. They're usually poorly maintained and always over priced.
It's unfortunate KOA doesn't have a good reputation these days. We've had pretty good experiences but only stayed in a few.
MY WIFE AND I DID 9000 MILES IN 62 DAYS IN 2016 TO SEE AMERICA. AND WE SAW A LOT OF IT. MOST NIGHTS WAS A KOA. WE'VE FOUND THAT THE KOA LOCATIONS NEAR BIG NAME TOURIST ATTRACTIONS, EG MT. RUSHMORE, SOUTH DAKOTA, WERE NICER AND MORE APPEALING ALL THE WAY AROUND. WHEN WE OVERNIGHTED IN B F E KOA LOCATIONS THE FACILITY WAS UNKEPT, USED UP AND REALLY NOT WORTH THE MONEY THEY CHARGE
@@PeeWeeHenson yall were busy getting to see that much in 62 days! Thanks for the head's up about where the better KOAs are! We appreciate it!
This was almost our story exactly at a Virginia campground!! So sorry this happened to you, and good for you for finding the positive in the situation and getting out of dodge quick!
Sorry to hear you had to go through something similar. It worked out for the best in the end for us! But in the moment it was very frustrating!
In Chesapeake by any chance?
@@baron7024 no, it was on the Blue Ridge Parkway
@@NomadicTrio FYI, if you find yourself in Chesapeake stay away from a campground with Chesapeake in it's name.
Crazy town. Stay safe.
@@baron7024 thanks so much for the heads up!
Y'all are the most sweetest people I can ever see on CZcams and the most nicest people and got the best-looking family anybody could ever have
Thank you!
Thank you for being so honest and sharing your experiences. Someone probably already commented on this but the bocce game is pronounced ‘botch-eee’ and it is Italian lawn bowling. While it can be super competitive, my experience is that it’s a great game while holding a beer 🍺😁, a lot like croquet!! Happy travels!
Yes, some of our viewers told us how to pronounce it and said it's great fun! We may be adding it to our Christmas list!
I was stationed at Griffiss AFB in Rome NY in the late 1970s, Rome was known as a the Bocce capital of America... I believe they held major events there, they had a set of courts under a pavilion, probably like 50-100 courts... I know live near Rutland VT, and I know my former boss used to play in a league at the local Italian/American Club... A lot of folks don't know about it, but I bet nearly every town in America that has an Italian Club or Italian American Club has their own weekly league. As you previously pointed out it's a great excuse to throw down a few cold brews...
Some people don’t like when others give bad reviews but I love when others give the good, bad and the ugly. Last thing I want is to waste time. Thanks for the vid I’ve been always wanting to go out to Montana with my trailer and thank you again.
We hope you make it to Montana! We loved our time there!
Loved yalls video and the review on a bad RV park. One thing that always bothers me is when a person uses me and mine when there is a family involved. Using "we" an "ours" makes a family situation video so much more enjoyable to listen too. Thanks again for the input.
Thanks for watching!
I live near that campground. Before I took residence here, I came for a wedding and was going to stay for a week. I was going to car camp in someone's driveway, but became sick, and thought I better go to the campground for better facilities. They wanted $55/night, no electricity, tent-site (5yrs ago), but no tent, no grass either. But with no tent, my car was now an rv in their mind and so, would cost more, and I had not told them yet I had a child and dog with me. So I gave up, went into town and found a cheaper place: a hotel room with air-conditioning, fridge, stove, bathroom, TV, privacy for a whole week. Only negative was, dog had to stay in my car.
Yikes! We've heard quite a few campers who say our experience at this rv park isn't uncommon! It's really sad because it could be such a great park if they cared just a little bit! Glad you found a more suitable place to stay!
Super informative! I don't do RV Parks. I prefer national parks. Visited a few just to check and realized there are sites in the USA that are taking advantage of the RV Community.
We would love to stay in the National Park's, but we are way too big for almost all of them!
Nowadays you need to bring protection with you at the National parks. Not for the four legged kind, but the two legged kind. Dangerous without a gun.
@@deliveryguy7402 Minorities?
@@SalsaSippin_ Wow...🙄
Yup. Traved the entire US in an Aliner. Getting older and need more creature comforts so I'm looking for a class B+ or C under 30ft.
Thanks for the heads up about the campground and I’m glad that things worked out for you in the long run❤
You're welcome! We are glad it all worked out, too!
Most everything that happens to us, can be a learning experience, and good for all of you for recognizing this. I spent most of my working life in customer service, (Aviation, Travel, and Tourism) I am also a traveler and consumer, and have learned to have a plan B, C, and D, if necessary. Most travel industry employees don't wake up in the morning and think, "I can't wait to see how many people I can inconvenience and piss off, because nobody wants to work that hard. It's just that some employees handle it much better than others. I wish you all dry roads, blue sky, and safe travels! Thanks for sharing your adventures with us! 🌅
I, too, came from a customer service background, as my degree is Hotel and Restaurant Management. It's so true what you say that most employees are not trying ruin your experience! When I worked front desk at hotels, I actually tried to make everyone's stay better than they expected and when I moved into sales, I tried to make my client's experience positive and memorable! There are absolutely some employees that editors not be in the customer service industry!
@@PavingNewPaths 👍✌️
All I got to say is thank you, I'm sorry about your camping experience, but when I see campgrounds that are like this.it gives me hope when I open mine in a few years in Ga.
Thanks for watching! You will be just fine as long as you give people what they pay for! We travel fulltime so we see a wide range of the campground across this country. Some charge based on amenities they offer, and some charge based on location. As long as we feel the the price meets our requirements we don't mind paying.
Wow, that’s insane!! Although I know it was very frustrating for you guys, getting kicked out was a blessing in disguise. 🙏🏽 God knows what else may have went wrong there in the upcoming days. The place just looks & seems sketchy like the Camp Redwood on American Horror Story 🤦🏽♀️🤣 On another note, you guys have a beautiful family! Enjoy the rest of your trip! ☺️🏕🔥
You are so right! Thank you for taking time to watch and comment! We appreciate your kind words!
I agree, definitely a blessing. And although these rvs are set up with so much surge protection and safety, all of that power surging and issues at that place couldn't be good in the long run. Probably best to high-tail! God bless stay safe
You were super kind with all your disappointments thanks for the warning and the post! It can only get better from here!
Thanks for watching! It was a blessing as our next park was right outside Glacier National Park!
They depend on the fact that you're arriving tired and don't have time to find another place. They figure you'll "settle." God, I hate people like that.
I think you're right!
I'm sorry you guys had to go through that. Love how you focused on the good as well!
Thank you! It all turned out great in the end!
Wife and I planning RV trips all over America before we sail, thank you for the video.
Thank you for watching! Safe travels to you and your wife!
You sure see all kinds on the road. Thank you for your review. Very informative.
Thanks for watching! And yes, you do!
That sucks but seems like it was a good thing y’all left. Stay safe and keep the videos coming
Thanks Jose! We ended up so thankful that our first campground didn't work out!
Thanks for the review! Looks like a little background search might be useful before booking.
For a long time we gave every place a chance. After this experience we now remove the campground from our search that have to many of these type of bad reviews!
One of your vids talked me out of rving full time but it actually made me aware is all. Thanks for these vids
Don't let anything we do talk you out of it! Just take what you see and adjust your expectations! We love this life but we came into it thinking it was going to be vacation 24/7! Guess what it's not, it takes work just like living in a home somewhere!
Wow! That's crazy. I'm binge watching your videos. Love this little family! Thank you for all the updates and where not to camp.
We love you, too! We know your time is precious, so to spend it watching our channel means the world to us! This was the video that took us from making videos for friends and family to making videos for everyone to enjoy! We are forever grateful for this negative experience, as it gave us a new job that we absolutely love!
@@PavingNewPaths there is always a bright side.
video is awesome guys! Yall have some serious patience where i didn't learn that! i know you been called worse than a MISFIT before. love the videos stay warm and safe travels.
Thanks for watching!
Added that park to my “Never in a million years” list. Thanks for the heads up!
You're welcome! We've got one of those lists too!
You guys are funny as heck! I'm glad I found your channel thanks for sharing the tips
Thanks so much for watching! We hope you enjoy the channel!
Thanks for the heads up on that place. We we’re possibly thinking hitting that area in the fall. I am so sorry you had to deal with that. Going to save a lot of people from wasting their money/time from this place!
You welcome! It operates as Beaverhead River RV park now in Dillon Montana!
I loved your video. Sorry y’all had a bad time. I look forward to your new travels. I had no idea that Montana was so beautiful.
We didn't know what to expect from Montana either, but ended up liking it so much! We've got a few videos out from our time in Montana! We'd love for you to check those out!
A bunch of us used to camp out at a state park for deer season. Every year around midnight without fail everyone's power would go out. Which made the 25 degree weather in the middle of the night in the tent that much more enjoyable. And then they added more campsites.
How convenient! This place we were on the circuit that just went dead all together! Us and about 1/3 of the campground! Funny thing thought because you would think it would be an entire row of campsites! But it was 1/3 of the park randomly spaced out everywhere!
I'm glad that you ended up at an excellent campground.
We were too! Thanks so much for watching!
“Kevin started speaking truth” 😂👍🏼 sometimes it must be done when ignorance reaches that height, very childish on the park owners behalf, safe travels to you & your family brother ✌🏼
I waited on the truth until I was absolutely sure she was kicking us out! She looked me dead in the eyes and said your stealing all the power! my response was if I'm stealing all the power why am I here at your office telling you I don't have power! It escalated from there but we both left the conversation knowing where the other person stood!
"bocca" ball, I think you mean Bocce (Boch-eee). It is an Italian yard game popular in New England. Very similar to horseshoes. You throw the tiny ball, called a ballinni, and then the red and green balls are the teams. Whichever team color rolls the balls and gets the closest to the ballinni scores a point.
Yes we had never heard of it until we posted this video! Sounds fun!
Thank you for the information. We are headed to Montana in July!
Will you get a chance to go to Glacier National Park? We ended up living Montana!
Thank you for reporting them to KOA. We always camped with KOA bc of the comfort you get knowing you will be at a place with standards- good ones. Apparently something this place hasn't had in a very long time!
We've had good luck at the few KOAs we have stayed at! This was a former KOA that wasn't keeping up any standards of their campground, but still using their KOA pictures in online advertisements!
Thank you so much for reviewing this place. I just came across this post of your. We actually stayed here about 2 weeks ago. Pool was empty park was almost full. workers were there at 8 in the morning. We're were only in one night. We have a 30amp.. We got in way later than planned and couldn't fit in the spot they gave us so we just moved the next empty one. They lady came out in the morning around 845 and apologize for not responding to our email at 1030 pm. She seemed very nice. I know most of the trailers were smaller so maybe that's why you had so much problems with a bigger trailer. I'm sorry that happened to you. Safe travels. God bless
When we had our issues no employee came to work for 2 days! We had surging power for a day then the pedestal had no power the last day! The owner who lives next door would not answer a phone or email so we found our own solution by sharing the neighbors pedestal! Our campers size does not matter we can only run on what power we are provided! If they give us 30amp we run on 30amp! We actually were not mad because in those two days we survived on a 15amp supply from the neighbor and we learned what our camper was capable of! Our next stop was outside Glacier National Park and if you don't have reservations good luck finding a spot, so we figured we were ok for a few more days here! It was how the owner handled the situation when they came to work where this went bad!
Sorry for your experience, but so glad you share these experiences so others won't have to deal with that campground again.
It's unfortunate because the campground could be really nice. It worked out for the best we got to to Glacier National Park early! If you haven't seen those videos go check them out on our channel.
Thank you for an honest review. Stay honest and safe.
Thanks for watching!
I'm glad you posted this video. We actually stayed there in 2005 and it was much nicer then. We had a great time but thankfully you posted this. When we make a trip back up that way we will definitely not be staying there. It has changed for the worse.
We wish we could have had a great stay too! Glad you didn't rebook! Maybe with a management change and new funding, it can be restored to it's former glory!
It is a bad RV Park. We've wondered how they got a KOA contract.
Next time stay on the south end of town at Southside RV Park. Great Park, really good owners, and close to Sparky's Garage Restaraunt for dinner. Great food & service.
We had the same electrical pedestal problems at the The Lazy K Rv Park in Lovelock Nevada. Only our TT was a 30-amp unit. It was 106 outside. Running the ac & watching tv, we blew the entire camper row when we turned on the microwave. Evidently they had doubled the amount of sites without upgrading their electrical system. 1-night, adios.
Thanks for the recommendation on where to stay and eat! We have it noted for next time! I can't imagine being in 106 degree weather without adequate power! These rv parks are crazy to not keep their electrical in tip top condition! I'd hate to know I had to deal with angry customers every day at work over something that could be easily fixed!
I'm glad you continued on with your visit to Montana. I love living here and I am glad you got to see its beauty.
Montana is amazing, in our 3 years of traveling this has been our only incident involving a campground!
Welcome to Montana !!! I don't even want to have my oil changed..and I live here. Hope the rest of the trip went better 👍🐾☮️
This place could be really awesome if they just cared a little! The rest of our trip was amazing in Montana!
You inadvertently alerted bunches of potential investors to a place that needs a bit of 'Sweat Equity' to make it competitive. Way to go! Hope you are turning coin on listing derogatories for potential investors. Your insight has a VALUE to it.
Agreed! We said this place needs an influx of cash to upgrade the park and bring it back to it's former glory. And maybe management or staff that works with customers to solve problems instead of blaming customers for problems.
I don't know how reservations are required to be paid but if you use a credit card like Visa or M.C. you can call up the card company to dispute the charges and tell them why and the card company can make determination that you are either owed a full or partial refund and they take care of the rest for you.
We considered disputing the charges, but decided paying the rate for those three nights may help them monetarily so they could update the electric. I doubt it was used for any upgrades, but one can hope!
Am l wrong ....Did you not get a full refund?
@@jefferyhutchison9775 They did not give full refund. We were charged full price for all the days we were there without power. They only refunded the money for the days after they kicked us out!
Montana is BEAUTIFUL !
Now that I no longer drive tractor trailer. I have dreamed of living like y'all are doing so I could stop and spend time at all the places I wasn't able to while driving. Enjoy your time this country has some awesome sights to see and some amazing people to meet. You are Blessed.
Thank you! We sold everything to travel fulltime in the RV with our kids! This country of ours is beautuful and worth seeing!
Wow thank you for sharing about that dump I wish y’all would come to Georgia because I will show you some beautiful camp grounds
Georgia is on our list! Wife really wants to see Savannah!
Thanks for the heads up on this!!
No problem, thanks for watching!
We are actually planning a trip to Montana right now. Thank you for the warning!
Montana is Awesome we loved our time there! If you make it to Glacier National Park I would plan to give it 2-3 full days one of the best parks we've ever seen! We just put out two videos of our time in Glacier, Go check them out you won't be disappointed!
Very interesting, thank you so much for the honest and frank review of this campground. We love Montana and travel there in our 5W quite often. I didn’t happen to see the name of this RV park in your review, so I looked it up in our Good Sam campground guide and astonishingly it got pretty high ratings by Good Sam. Maybe the Good Sam ratings are very subjective. In eIther case we put this campground in our notes to NOT stay there. Love your videos and have learned a lot.
The campground was a former KOA but was using its KOA pictures under the new name to advertise! Unless they've done some major electrical upgrades, I would avoid it! It could be such a nice place but we would never stay there again!
I think what you're doing is great sharing your adventures with the general public has a general public not everyone has the concept of the idea what it's like to do RV life you're doing that you're sharing your experiences when you're at a passing your experiences along I think it's great that support you
Thanks for watching! We started this to show our family our life on the road we never expected it to reach this far!
Thanks for the honest review! I do the same thing - ignore some of the bad reviews because that's not always the best truth tester. I've seen reviews by people who I WITNESSED either scamming or abusing the staff where they bash the place on Yelp because they didn't get meals comped or whatever - so I always hold judgement. But in this case - you provided examples and pictures of WHY you were unhappy with your experience.
Thanks for watching! We now wish we would have filmed more so we could have shown how it truly was leading up to us being told to leave!
What an awesome family. So wholesome and warm. God bless your family. Will sub and enjoy your videos. P.S. Nice rig. Bet you hardly know you are towing that behemoth on the highways.
Thanks for watching! The truck does a great job towing, but you don't forget it's back there!
We stayed at a camp ground in the middle of Dillon ( Not KOA ) and it was great. A small stream running through it. We stayed there on our way up to Wallace Idaho from Arizona and 5 nights on the way home. We have a 40' motorhome with 50 amp and had no problems and the sites are well spaced apart.
We heard (after leaving) that there is a really nice campground in Dillon! Glad you didn't have the experience we did while there!
OMG, TRAGEDY! Amazing you got out ALIVE! Your perseverence is an inspiration to ALL OF US!
Happy to be an inspiration! 😂🤣😂
Had a friend many years ago ( 80's) who wanted to install a pool heater in his inground 20X40. I told him that mine usually ran about 2.00 a day in propane to keep it 76 degrees. Small pool, 18X36 mostly for my family and neighboring kids. He went ahead an installed one costing him 4.00 a day, accusing me of lying to him. He removed the heater after one season and sold it for a loss. Some people just don't listen.
Goodness!
That's totally unfortunate, thanks for sharing the truth!!!
Thanks for watching! It was unfortunate but if you see from our next video, it got us to beautiful Glacier National Park sooner! So it turned out to be a positive!
Thank you for the heads up. Thank you for posting & sharing. Safe trip. Stay blessed ✝️ 🇺🇸
Thank you for watching!
Cool video !! We really looked forward to staying at Koa's back in the 70's when our family pulled a camper, they were the best !! It's a shame what that campground has become.
This was a former KOA that was still advertising with their KOA pictures but not being held to the KOA standard!
I think it goes a long way if they try to make it right or if there’s a decent park underneath.
We lost power for 3 days at our current campground but it was city side and not campground side. The park did everything they could to make up for it and comped 4 nights. We already had a generator too. Yea i was pissy but they tried and it wasn’t their fault. Complete opposite of what happened to y’all.
Yes, just offering empathy would have been a nice gesture. All we wanted was to hook up to the site beside us since our neighbor left, but then she "couldn't sell that spot" as she said! Yes, we were upset about not having adequate power for two days and having no contact with the staff since they were never there, but it could have been resolved in that instant if she would have said sure hook up to the site beside you and I'm sorry for your troubles! Sounds like your management was better trained then what we were dealing with!
Grrrr I had a bad experience in Dillon I'm sorry you did as well 😔 Safe travels.👍🙏
It's unfortunate because the surrounding area is very nice!
You kept your cool, and kept it professional. You let there business speak for itself. I would’ve not been that patient lol good on you.
Thanks for Watching! I would have liked to film more of our problems, but we never expected to be asked to leave over them! In the end it worked out as we got to spend four more days in Glacier National Park!
Thanks! I literally just added them to our stop. I will definitely change our stop for that night.
It could be such a great place, but the owners don't seem to care!
1st time watching your video's, and I completely sympathize with you. I owned a Class A for 17 years until last summer (sold it) and it seemed like the KOA's I stayed at were my problem RV places, and a few that used to be but had been purchased by others who didn't know how to run a campground/park (they just see the $ in it). I have many stories and too bad I didn't video my experiences. Glad you are doing so like many others to let people know where NOT to go and spend your money and your time. It's a lot of work RV'ing and should always be a rewarding experience, not a hassle nor a bad one. These type of places need to be shut down period.
Sorry you had some of the same bad experiences! Of all the campgrounds we've stayed at, this was our only negative experience. Not to say there haven't been issues in other campgrounds, but at least the other places had management that cared and worked to make things right!
@@PavingNewPaths All you can do is share info with others, and not ever patronize the bad places, report to higher management/ownerships if needed and possibly file complaints with BBB/City or County municipalities. Read reviews and make wise choices at all costs. Thankfully, there are great places with great management to be had out there! Don't ever let it get in your way if it happens, and keep on RV'ing, living your life!
Great episode, beautiful family and a new subscriber. :)
Thank you so much! We appreciate your support!
We've stayed at a couple of 'mom & pop' campgrounds where the pedestal had issues with the 30 amp socket, usually burned up a little from loose RV plugs, but we could usually just grab the 50 to 30 amp adapter 'dogbone' and no problems. Once we did have to move to another site (in the same park) because there was only an inoperative single 30 amp plug in the box. But so far we've not had your experience, but have run across one or two "KOA" that were not up to specs, but the prices were still up!
In over 40 campgrounds last year this was the only bad experience we have had! We actually were not mad because we learned what our RV could actually do with out power! We made the video to show things don't always go as planned!
Dillon, MT. Noted. Thank you for your review! Most definitely don't want to deal with that, what a shame
So sad, because it could be a really great park! Some of our viewers said there is another rv park in Dillon that is much better to stay at!
Thanks for the honest review! I'm gonna be entering full timing after this winter in the southwest :) You should looked into any of the new style solar generators? I brought a elite Natures Generator and with a add power pod now and 4 panels it fully powers my motorhome, in fact it has a 30amp RV plug on the back side and can even run my roof AC unit, it puts out 2800 watts continuous w/ 3500 amp surge limit :) Pure sin wave inverter will keep your electronics safe 👌
Thanks for watching! Our camper has an onboard generator, and we use it quite often on travel days but this is the first time I have had to use it while at a park that I was paying for full hook ups! We really looked hard at doing the full solar set up before we set off on our full time journey. However the cost for what we needed to be fully self sufficient was pretty steep, and based on the price of gas at the time, I think I could run my generator 24/7 for almost 2 years before I would come out ahead! That being said it is still an option but it did not make sense for the way we travel and camp at this time.
Ya I do have about $2000 invested in the system, my on board Cummings does the trick but since I plan on a lot of dispensed camping in retirement I wanted something powering the motorhome without having any generator noise. Thanks again for the KOA review, some are better then others that’s for sure. I’ll keep an eye out for ur new postings, just found ur channel. I’ll be posting others to mine as well for sharing my adventures in the future 🍁
We may revisit solar once our girls are a little older but for now, we need hookups 90% of the time! Thanks for taking time to check out our adventures! We look forward to checking your channel out, too! What's your channel name, if you've started it already?
@@PavingNewPaths click on my profile photo and that should link u to it? Happy camping ur children are lucky to have RVing parents, sure wish mine were when I was young, at least a
little? :)
You can just type my name in the search bar if u want? I have two channels, the puppy profile photo is an old gaming channel of mine that I recently regained control of, my travel channel adventures has a profile photo of my Ruby on a San Diego beach looking out to the surf ;)
We have had issues at various "RV Resorts/campgrounds and in various states. Checked into one and our site was under water. There was about 5 inches of standing water over the whole site. Went back to office and asked to move to another site and was told NO. Plenty of sites open. I said we were not staying and was refused a refund. I always read the reviews. Definitely looks like the place you ended up was much better.
Yikes! You have to wonder why some management are such sticklers and want their paying customers to be unhappy. We definitely ended up in a better place!
Sorry to hear this mate. It is a bad day when you end up in a scruffy campsite. We like to ask around regarding campsites. Here in South Africa we have plenty campsites all over the country and we love camping, winter or summer. We also have a couple of coffey table books that show photos on all the best parks to go to....but then again we sometimes just load up and go....enjoy your camping!
Yes it was unfortunate the campground wasn't up to par like advertised! We definitely pay more attention to reviews now! And South Africa is on my list of places I want to visit! We have a few viewers from there and it sounds beautiful when they speak about it!
Thank you for your review!!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
We stayed there a few years ago and it was awful. There are great campgrounds in the Dillon area! There was a wedding at the KOA when we were there and that was interesting. A camper drove his truck into a tree next to us….it was wild.
Now i would have stayed with no electricity for that!
Wow! Thanks for the review
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for the warnings bless you all i hope the next park do you guys right
Our next park was excellent! Thanks for watching!
Absolutely, read the reviews. I have had only one RV park that I was totally upset with. Outside of El Paso, TX back in 2014. I had a class-c at the time and only 30amp. OK, I set up, plugged in, and all was fine until the next day. Yes, ran the A/C all day and night. The shore cord plug started to meld. I unplugged and used my generator. The site manager allowed ME to pick a site best suited for us. Most of the sites were unlevel, but that is manageable. The office had CAMCO RV parts and I was able to get a replacement 30amp plug for my RV. No charge, but I had to do the replacement. That was our only real bad experience. I have been to numerous RV parks with hot tubs, but when we got there, many were under maintenance or totally shut down. No big deal. Live with an RV. Unless you buy into RV resort time shares and that costs money.
We've had pretty good luck too, until thos park. Now we make sure yo take reviews regarding electric problems and general upkeep seriously!
Get a surge protector for the power cord
FYI...pulling that heavy camper in Washington state (if you ever visit), I do believe you would have to pull over to let the line of people behind to to pass you. That's when there are five or more vehicles.
Most states have a similar rule, and we do when there is a place for us to allow them to pass!
If you find yourself going through Idaho (since you’re up in those parts anyhow) swing through Salmon and stay at Elk Bend RV park and you will forget all about that place. It’s everything an RV park should be. Safe travels.
Thanks for the suggestion, we will add it to the list.
It's good to see you enjoying yourself I seen it already it's a beautiful place let's keep it our own
We loved glacier!
We have a Park model in a RV Park. We pay extra for our outside freezer, electric water heater and air conditioner.
Our landlord has it set to 30 amps. He tried to tell us it was our water heater was short circuting our power supply. It was during a storm. Everyone's electricity went out. Then he had done some wiring on our box and it again went out during a storm. The Maintenance man said it was faulty wiring on the box. He asked my husband if he tried to rewire it. No it was the owner. So our maintenance man did another rewiring of our circuit box. Everything is fine except when everyone loses power because of the storms. Again our landlord was trying to get us to buy his on demand water supply junk. See him and this other guy puts in a on demand box onto your RV trailer that cost $120 and charge you $500 with no guarantee. We looked up on Home Depot and found they are $179 but with a military discount and workers discount it only $129. The rest of the $500 they pocket it. It takes them about 20 minutes to hook it up on most RV's. But they are only supposed to be used for 2-3 weeks at a time. People were having to replace them within a year. On a Park model you are supposed to have spacers for heat escape.
Now its sold to Lake Shore Management/Parakeet Communities. BBB has them at 🌟. Not 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟.
People are complaining about these people and we are finding out why.
In almost 2 years and over 60 campgrounds this was our only bad experience! In the end it was a blessing as we got to spend extra days at Glacier National Park!
Everything happens for a reason, you were meant to find that new place, looked WAY nicer! God bless
Thanks for watching! We agree! Things worked out for the best!
Man! Sorry you had to deal with all the issues. We generally love KOA, so I was glad to see they really are not a KOA. I wonder how they can advertise as KOA if they are no longer affiliated with them. Seems illegal to me. Glad you got to a better campground. And enjoy Glacier. That place is incredible!!!
We almost didn't post the video, but it shows everything is not always smooth sailing in the rv world. Plus it had a happy ending we got to spend more time in glacier national park!
@@PavingNewPaths loo0p
I googled it...says permanently closed for Koa. So perhaps you fixed this issue.
The KOA in Billings, MT is the very first KOA that started. I'm really surprised they never updated.
KOA is not what they use to for sure never will I stay in one again
Awesome video.
Love the content.
Love the family vibe.
Happy you experience was not worse.
Safe travels.
New subscriber.
Thanki you glad you like the channel! We hope you enjoy the other adventures we go on!
Sorry for your bad luck, lol. I guess it is important to pay attention to the reviews. Thanks sir and happy trails.
We used to give every place a chance and it worked out until this place! Now if I see the same bad review 3 times about power, management or anything to do with the park, it is off the list!
My family did a lot of RV camping and even tent camping when I growing up. Maybe we were spoiled by the incredible state parks in Utah and the surrounding states, but we always considered KOA the bottom of the barrel and avoided them whenever possible. We preferred actually having scenery and trees to the usual mowed field that most KOA places seemed to be.
This was a former KOA, but used pictures from when it was a KOA to advertise! We loved Utah and think it would be great to stay inside the state and national parks. Unfortunately, our rv size doesn't allow for staying in them in most cases!
@@PavingNewPaths Ah ok. That makes sense. Ours was a fairly small one.
🤌🤌🤌 we never stayed at a Koa either. We stayed at real campgrounds so we were actually in forests and the surroundings. We grew up living in them. Silent Valley in So Cal is beautiful. Half way up the mountain to Idlewild starting down in Banning CA
Good thing you had a surge protector the faulty electrical service could have caused very expensive damage to your rig. We use the watch dog surge protector because there are so many rv parks out there who aren’t maintained well yet have a great website with beautiful pictures. I now use a cross reference of with reviews and RVers photos.
Yes we are very glad we had the surge protector! We now double check reviews with other apps and websites before booking!
Thanks for taking one for the team, and thanks for info
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
I live in Dillon, and I'm so sorry you had such trouble. I don't blame you for being upset. Hope you enjoy the rest of our beautiful state .
We hope that the campground has made a turn for the better! It ended up being a blessing getting kicked out because we got to spend more time exploring Glacier NP! Montana is one of our top states we've visited because everything is absolutely stunning!
I'm glad 😊😊😊 that everything worked out for you folks 👍👍👍... If you're ever in Northwest AR do NOT use Monte Ne RV park.. travel the extra 2 miles on down Hwy.94 and stay at the Horseshoe Bend resort there on Beaver lake... it's good advice 👍👍👍
Thanks for sharing we will keep that in mind when we travel through that area!
When I used to travel cross country I lucked out with some pretty decent KOA'S. I liked to find the ones with the cabins. I think things have gone down hill these days.
We actually have never had a problem with KOA! They were a former KOA, operating under a new name, but still using KOA branded pictures on the website! We thought oh this will just fine! We were wrong!
I had a friend who plugged in and went to town and didn't have a surge protector with a low voltage shut-off. The voltage dropped while she was gone and when she returned both of her A/C compressors were fried. The park said "not our problem, your rig was faulty!"
Yeah this is why we refuse to bypass our surge protector! If we have to we will fire up our generator until they can fix the problem or we can find a new RV park!
Great video. Thanks for posting this. Have a nice day.
Thank you!
I just had goosebumps when you showed a view of the mountains 😄😄. So glad it worked out for your family in the end. We have little ones too and I know how this kind of treatment/getting kicked out could be for them.
The mountains were beautiful and we miss that view a lot! Having kids definitely changes your travel style, but they rolled with this unexpected, long travel day, thank goodness!
Wow, it’s a real shame they’re like that! Has a lot more of a potential. Most likely some bought it that has no clue what to do and is in over their head!
Either that or they just stopped caring! It could be such a great place, too!
I'm a RV maintenance mechanic-I tell RV folks, have a small elect tester ($25.00) if you own an RV. You can quickly diagnose electric problems with a meter. Very easy to check. Guess what happens at RV parks? You have electrical components exposed to the elements, and they fail! You also have people "hot plugging" outlets, not turning off breakers when plugging and unplugging. My guess, with your problem was a faulty breaker, or the outlet was damaged. Breaker soft and not working? Outlet burned or damaged? Smart RV folks make friends with the maintenance guys when they arrive! Also: your rig is fairly new, you should have told the park manager that.
Take my advice, I've been at this for 8 years, and I've helped hundreds of campers!
Thanks for watching! This is why I installed my surge protector to save my rig from places like this. The 30 amp at the pedestal worked for one day, after that it was completely dead no power at all but breaker was not tripped at the pedestal I assume the breaker at the main panel tripped as it seemed multiple spots were with out power. We still had 15 amp but it was surging so bad that my surge protector would never let power into the rig. Funny thing is when I was measuring the voltage on the 15 am the surge in power also matched the surge in water pressure I was seeing on my gauge. Needless to say they are due for some electrical maintenance and repair.
@@PavingNewPathsMy guess is that your surge protector was indicating a fault with the circuit breaker at the pedestal.(You want to check with the campers to the right and left of you, and see if they are having any problems.) If you own a RV you are NUTS not to have a surge protector! Also: I think the park in question did not have any maintenance workers.
To be fair, if everyone is using their maximum allotment at the same time you can get blackouts. Also, those breakers are usually overestimated. If you are tripping a 30 amp breaker it may be because of using way more than 30 amps, not just a little.
Thanks for watching! We never tripped a breaker! We have a hardwired surge protector that was cutting power to the camper due to low voltage! When we were hooked to 30amp we never had an amp draw more than 15 amps. When the 30 amp plug died we started running the camper off the 15 amp and never saw an amp draw over 7amps.