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[dennis45]

Originally Posted by Superslif

Fact I just got done doing some research on a certain campground for our Yellowstone trip. Yes, location was good, but review after review said the place was a dump, but charged upwards of $100 a night only because of its location....

And your point is?

[smlranger]

I rely heavily on campgroundreviews.com. I have found their reviews pretty accurate. I submit a review for most every place we stay and have always found my posted reviews just as I submitted them.

I did recently attempt to edit a review and there is no way to easily do that. I contacted their help desk and they agreed to add one sentence for me.

[docj]

Originally Posted by smlranger

I did recently attempt to edit a review and there is no way to easily do that. I contacted their help desk and they agreed to add one sentence for me.

Because our admins actually read all the submitted reviews, we are reluctant to permit easy edits of posted reviews because of the potential for someone to insert something during an edit which might not be consistent with the site's posted review guidelines.

However, as smlranger has noted, you can always contact us via the Help Desk if there is an edit you feel is significant and which needs to be made.

Joel (AKA docj)

[UTTransplant]

I much prefer RVParkReviews. Trip Advisor is littered with reviews of motels and restaurants that you have to pick through to find the RV park reviews. Yelp and Yahoo just have too few reviews of camping sites. My general approach is to look at my AllStays app to see what's in the area and get basic information on alternatives, and then I look up reviews on RVParkReviews. I always look at the most positive and the most negative to see where the reviewers come from. I also try to leave reviews on all the places I stay (reminder to self:finish those I stayed at last week!).

I have had problems with new campgrounds or older, small FS campgrounds being in their database. I have added one, but I was so frustrated with the process that I didn't add a second one. When you are in the middle of nowhere at an established FS campground, I shouldn't have to enter last/Lon, street address (!!!), etc. I just wish they populated their database with public available information instead of asking me to do it!

[docj]

Originally Posted by UTTransplant

I have had problems with new campgrounds or older, small FS campgrounds being in their database. I have added one, but I was so frustrated with the process that I didn't add a second one. When you are in the middle of nowhere at an established FS campground, I shouldn't have to enter last/Lon, street address (!!!), etc. I just wish they populated their database with public available information instead of asking me to do it!

Are you aware that all you have to do it move the map pin for the park you are adding to the appropriate location on the map then all the lat/long info will be populated for you? If it's an established CG that shows up on Google Maps just move the RVPR map pin to it.

[jpm777]

I also used RV park reviews posted reviews but beware to use more than once source to make your decisions. I stayed at a park last year and had another RV'er mess with my trailer. The park owners did nothing and refused to refund my next nights fee as I was not staying there again. RV park reviews have refused to post my negative review. I stopped posting reviews there.

http://www.irv2.com/forums/f38/north...ml#post2945737

[UTTransplant]

Originally Posted by docj

Are you aware that all you have to do it move the map pin for the park you are adding to the appropriate location on the map then all the lat/long info will be populated for you? If it's an established CG that shows up on Google Maps just move the RVPR map pin to it.

I usually use this on my iPad with Safari, but after reading your post I remembered you had released an App. I did download the app, but found your mapping incomplete. For example, Swan Lake campground in Montana does not show up until I zoom very, very close in. I had added this one so I was curious how it showed up (lovely place BTW). Lots of other ones do though but definitely now all. Another example is the large KOA in Waterloo, Iowa. You have a lot of reviews on it, but it is not on your map even if I zoom in almost to street level.

At this point, I will stay with AllStays for identifying campgrounds and go back to reading reviews with Safari. I might look at the app if I need to add a campground, but nothing's else until you get your mapping working.

[docj]

Originally Posted by jpm777

I also used RV park reviews posted reviews but beware to use more than once source to make your decisions. I stayed at a park last year and had another RV'er mess with my trailer. The park owners did nothing and refused to refund my next nights fee as I was not staying there again. RV park reviews have refused to post my negative review. I stopped posting reviews there.

With all due respect, there are lots and lots of negative reviews posted on RVParkReviews. However, if the review you wanted to post contained nothing other than the episode related to someone messing with your trailer and the owner refusing to do anything about it then, yes, it would have been returned to you with a request that you include some OTHER information about the RV park. You had the option of complying with the request to add information; if you chose not to that was your decision.

The RVPR site guidelines clearly state that reviews should have some information useful by others for determining if a park is suitable for them. Most people won't have the unfortunate experience you did and, if that's all your review contains, then it will be of little interest to them unless you add information as requested.

[Jeffcarp]

Bravo RVPR. Seems too often the customer thinks the Internet is the place to rant about a bad experience.

[twogypsies]

I totally agree that the review should contain aspects on the whole park not just one unfortunate experience. That's why we like RV Park Reviews much better than Yelp or Trip Advisor.

[ArmandV]

Originally Posted by TonyDi

We use RVparkreviews, exclusively. We have never been disappointed with their reviews. They seem pretty factual. Will also use the CG rating in the IRV site.

Same here.

I also post campground reviews at RV Park Reviews. I've reviewed 28, so far.

[jpm777]

Originally Posted by docj

With all due respect, there are lots and lots of negative reviews posted on RVParkReviews. However, if the review you wanted to post contained nothing other than the episode related to someone messing with your trailer and the owner refusing to do anything about it then, yes, it would have been returned to you with a request that you include some OTHER information about the RV park. You had the option of complying with the request to add information; if you chose not to that was your decision.

The RVPR site guidelines clearly state that reviews should have some information useful by others for determining if a park is suitable for them. Most people won't have the unfortunate experience you did and, if that's all your review contains, then it will be of little interest to them unless you add information as requested.

A water hose break, a bad electric pole, these are what I consider a "bad experience". But criminal activity and the management refusal to do anything about it is important information to me to determine if the park is suitable.
As for information about the park, I included a lot of relevant information. I know you have a personal stake being a moderator for the website. I don't and my original post didn't say RV Park Reviews was a bad site or not to use it, I just said to use a number of sources to get the full picture.

Below is the review I submitted. Plenty of information regarding roadway conditions, loud train noise, trailer space conditions.


DO NOT STAY HERE! RUN RUN AWAY! I stopped here because it is close to camping world and I had scheduled service there at 8 am the next morning. The office is on the top of the park and it has an electric gate so you can't see the park until you have already checked in and paid. It was the off season so all spots were $20 so I paid for 2 nights. Once past the gate in the park you will see there is a steep and narrow road leading down to the park. The roads are mostly dirt and the few that are paved are falling apart. The spaces along the river are dirt or some have a little gravel and are way too small for anything over 25 feet. There are train tracks that run right next to the park and train comes through about every 3-4 hours and are very loud. The roads are very narrow, steep and are falling apart. At 1am I heard a vehicle pull up right behind my RV and shut off its motor. I looked out and a white van was parked right behind my motorhome and my motorhome was shaking, when I got outside the van was at a motorhome 2 spaces away but no one would answer the door. I wasn't able to get a hold of staff until the next morning and they didn't care, said he is a regular and maybe he was just drunk. They refused to refund the second night. Once they have the money that's all they care about. Again, RUN AWAY FROM THIS PLACE AS FAST AS YOU CAN!

[PanJH]

Originally Posted by jpm777

I also used RV park reviews posted reviews but beware to use more than once source to make your decisions. I stayed at a park last year and had another RV'er mess with my trailer. The park owners did nothing and refused to refund my next nights fee as I was not staying there again. RV park reviews have refused to post my negative review. I stopped posting reviews there.

http://www.irv2.com/forums/f38/north...ml#post2945737

That's similar to a situation we had that caused me to stop posting reviews on that site. We called ahead for reservations for a park, told them we were about 65' long and they said no problem. The put us and our neighbor that was also 65' long in side by side sites where we pulled in and each took up 2 smaller front to back sites to accommodate our rigs. That was great. Because the roads in the park were very narrow and there were large trees, they told us they would leave the site across from us empty so we'd be able to maneuver out of the park in the morning. Super. A few hours later, they placed someone in that site that was supposed to be left empty, even thought e park was at most, 1/4 full. This would have prevented our exit in the morning. Before the new people got set up , I went to the manager and she just said "too bad" , you'll have to wait to leave in the morning until the pother people decide to leave. Despite continued discussions, she refused to budge on her position and actually got very angry.. By now, the people were getting set up and found out that the manager had placed them in a site where they couldn't plug due to the distance to the power post, so they just went back and told the manager they were moving to a better laid out site. Problem solved, now we'd be able to leave in the morning.
The next day, I put in a review on RVParkreviews stating that the park had good power/voltage, the rest rooms were very clean, the paved roads were tight by maneuverable,water pressure was good and the grounds were well maintained. I then told about the experience with the grumpy manager not honoring her commitment to leave a site open for us and being very argumentative. I feel that managements attitude and behavior is an important part of ones experience in a park. Well, my review was rejected by the reviewer/censor due to my comments about the management attitude with the comment that it wasn't pertinent. That was the last time I used rvparkreviews.

[docj]

Originally Posted by PanJH

I then told about the experience with the grumpy manager not honoring her commitment to leave a site open for us and being very argumentative. I feel that managements attitude and behavior is an important part of ones experience in a park. Well, my review was rejected by the reviewer/censor due to my comments about the management attitude with the comment that it wasn't pertinent.

First of all, reviews are returned with suggestions for changes. They are not rejected outright. Every reviewer has the opportunity to revise his review and some reviews do take a couple of iterations before both the reviewer and the admin involved are satisfied.

Without knowing your username on RVParkReviews I can't make any specific comment about this incident. But, if your review was not excessively argumentative and was otherwise as you describe it, then I would have posted it. The issue is that there are ~8 admins working on reviews at any given time and it is impossible to ensure 100% uniformity amongst all the individuals involved.

I hope that you will come back and try RVPark reviews again.