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NLOVNIT
Community Administrator
Registered: March 2002
Posts: 40725
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Review Date: Mon August 11, 2008
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Would you recommend the campground? Yes |
Price you paid?: $40.00
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Beautiful setting, spacious sites, ammenities, cleanliness, location to popular area attractions
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High price, children cost extra, 2 night minimum stay, payment in full at time of reservation
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Price paid is for a fhu/pull-thru/gravel patio site.
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Lori (& Dave, my spirit guide) - RV/MH Hall of Fame Lifetime Member | My iRV2 Photo Albums
2016 Phoenix Cruiser 2350S, 2018 Phaeton 40IH,2006 Bounder 36Z, 2004 Cougar 285EFS, 2000 Aerolite 25FBR
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NLOVNIT
Community Administrator
Registered: March 2002
Posts: 40725
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Review Date: Tue July 6, 2010
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Would you recommend the campground? No |
Price you paid?: $56.00
| Rating: 4
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WARNING: THIS CG HAS LOW VOLTAGE ISSUES
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After spending the 4th of July holiday weekend here, I have to submit an update to my prior review.
Although this KOA welcomes "big rigs", its electrical system is woefully inadequate to accomodate even half a dozen RV's needing 50 amp.
I will preface this update with the fact that temperatures were in the low 90's with high humidity & the campground was at capacity this past weekend. This would put a strain on even the beefiest of electrical systems, but it was the downfall of the system at this campground.
We started having issues when our Progressive Industries EMS shut down the power to our coach. A check of the display indicated a low voltage problem (the EMS will shut down when voltage drops below 104). The EMS restored power after its preset time, but when our a/c kicked in again, the EMS shut the power off again. We started our generator & I went to the camp office to report the problem. The staff there proceeded to tell me they never had an issue with this before, no one had previously reported a problem & the issue was either our electrical cord or our converter. In effect, it was not their problem. I requested they send someone down to check the voltage at our site. Kurt came out, had us disconnect our power cord & proceeded to test the outlet with a voltmeter. The meter numbers never completely settled but Kurt declared we had 112 volts (NOT under load) at our outlet & left. A short time later, a coach in the row next to us had it's generator auto start. Now I knew there was a problem. Borrowing a neighbor's voltmeter, we tested 6 surrounding, adjacent sites & the voltages ranged from 99 to 119, depending on when a/c's were cycling on & how far "down the line" from the original feed a site's electrical box was. Armed with this information, I reported the results back to the owners at the campstore. Only then, did another staff member admit a breaker blew on a 50amp row earlier & they have never had "that many big rigs at the campground at once drawing that much current before". 
Luckily, we had very nice neighbors in our 2 rows, & we all worked together putting our HWH's/fridges on propane & running just 1 a/c on low (until temps cooled at night) to help reduce voltage usage allowing those farther down the electrical lines to limp along...until one row, eventually, completely lost power & ended up running their generators.
Now I understand it's a somewhat older campground & when there is high heat & humidity, electrical issues can occur if there's a large demand on the system. But what irked me was the attitude of the staff & owners blaming the problem on my coach when they knew there were electrical troubles that weekend.
Long story short, until the campground addresses their electrical issues, I cannot recommend it for big rigs when the conditions are as they occured in this instance.
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Lori (& Dave, my spirit guide) - RV/MH Hall of Fame Lifetime Member | My iRV2 Photo Albums
2016 Phoenix Cruiser 2350S, 2018 Phaeton 40IH,2006 Bounder 36Z, 2004 Cougar 285EFS, 2000 Aerolite 25FBR
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