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05-19-2012, 12:44 PM
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Senior Member
Vintage RV Owners Club Fleetwood Owners Club
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Somewhere in the woods in Belfair, WA, WA
Posts: 1,250
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Take advantage of free "blacktop camping" at Walmarts, Crackerbarrels, Flying J's, some state rest stops and so on.
Perfect when you are in travel mode, dry camping for just every third night cuts your camping costs by 30%-
Just about any rig can do without hookups for one night.
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05-19-2012, 12:49 PM
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Senior Member
Solo Rvers Club
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Zigzag, OR
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What a great thread! Every post gives good info. As a FTer, I love the sharing and helpful attitudes expressed here. I use 1000 Trails, Golden Access, COE, and monthly rates. Happy trails to all!
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1000 Trails - VFW - 5 Yrs Army
"NOT ALL WHO WANDER ARE LOST"
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05-19-2012, 08:06 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Litchfield Park, Arizona
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Clay L
For several years our average cost per night has been less than $10 per night - including electricity.
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That's impressive! Is this mostly from monthly rates of $300 or less which include electric?
Rick
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05-20-2012, 09:28 AM
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Senior Member
Workhorse Chassis Owner
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Palisade CO
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RickO
That's impressive! Is this mostly from monthly rates of $300 or less which include electric?
Rick
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In Bouse AZ we pay $160 per month plus electricity. In Port Isabel TX we pay about $200 plus electricity. In Benson AZ, $345 plus electricity. It averages out to less than $10 per night.
I may mess up my yearly average this summer because we are paying $550 with electricity included here in Clifton CO. We have to be here because of my wife's 96 year old mother.
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05-20-2012, 11:25 AM
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Senior Member
Solo Rvers Club
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Zigzag, OR
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ClayL: That is impressive! So for you, monthly rates are the ticket.
Just a footnote to that, I've been able to obtain a discount to the posted monthly when parks are 'emptier'. I'm getting 10% off right now in a very nice park. Anyone else brokering a discount from the rack rate?
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08-12-2012, 02:51 AM
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Member
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Nestled among the Cedars in Poulsbo, WA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Clay L
In Bouse AZ we pay $160 per month plus electricity. In Port Isabel TX we pay about $200 plus electricity. In Benson AZ, $345 plus electricity. It averages out to less than $10 per night.
I may mess up my yearly average this summer because we are paying $550 with electricity included here in Clifton CO. We have to be here because of my wife's 96 year old mother.
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Where do you stay when you are in Benson? How much does your electricity usually cost? We stayed at a lovely park in Benson last winter. It started out as a week long stay and ended up being a month and a half. I came down with antibiotic resistant pneumonia and everyone at this campground was so good to us. It has an observatory, which I hope to be well enough to see this coming winter.
Debbie
Currently tucked between tall Cedars
In Poulsbo, WA
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08-12-2012, 08:08 AM
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Senior Member
Workhorse Chassis Owner
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Palisade CO
Posts: 3,588
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Originally Posted by ladybostons
Where do you stay when you are in Benson? How much does your electricity usually cost? We stayed at a lovely park in Benson last winter. It started out as a week long stay and ended up being a month and a half. I came down with antibiotic resistant pneumonia and everyone at this campground was so good to us. It has an observatory, which I hope to be well enough to see this coming winter.
Debbie
Currently tucked between tall Cedars
In Poulsbo, WA
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We stayed at the San Pedro Resort community because we have friends that wintered there. It was one of the the friendliest RV parks we have been in.
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08-13-2012, 12:16 AM
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Member
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Nestled among the Cedars in Poulsbo, WA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Clay L
We stayed at the San Pedro Resort community because we have friends that wintered there. It was one of the the friendliest RV parks we have been in.
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WOW. Must be a Benson thing. LOL Because that is a different park then the one we stayed at. Unfortunately, both my DH and I are having a senior moment AT THE SAME TIME! LOL We can't remember the name of the park, but everyone was very sweet!
Debbie
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08-13-2012, 12:21 AM
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Senior Member
Country Coach Owners Club Solo Rvers Club iRV2 No Limits Club
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Vancouver, WA
Posts: 37,725
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Senior Chief
Take advantage of free "blacktop camping" at Walmarts, Crackerbarrels, Flying J's, some state rest stops and so on.
Perfect when you are in travel mode, dry camping for just every third night cuts your camping costs by 30%-
Just about any rig can do without hookups for one night.
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We kind of do that although we're usually at our destination RV campground by the third evening. Two days travel staying at Wal*Marts, eating at local restaurants and buying supplies at the WM's works for us.
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09-09-2012, 04:47 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 19
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if you or 62 or older you need to get a amercia beautiful card and stay at corp parks for half price and all national parks
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09-09-2012, 04:53 PM
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Senior Member
Country Coach Owners Club Solo Rvers Club iRV2 No Limits Club
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Vancouver, WA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by phil branch
if you or 62 or older you need to get a amercia beautiful card and stay at corp parks for half price and all national parks
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I've had my "Golden Access" card since around 1988. Even used it in Hawaii when we were there one time.
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Charter Good Sam Lifetime Member, FMCA,
RV'ing since 1957, NRA Benefactor Life, towing '21 Jeep JLU Rubicon Ecodiesel
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09-10-2012, 07:47 AM
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Junior Member
Gulf Streamers Club
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Umatilla Or
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Info on Membership Parks (C2C, RPI, TT, ROD)
We have been full time now since July of 2010. Initially we joined RPI and C2C. During our travels we found Passport America (PA) and joined it also. WE discovered that every park we went to, with few exceptions under C2C was also a RPI. Eventually we dropped RPI and stayed with C2C and PA. We have added Resorts of Distinction (ROD) and Adventure Outdoor Resorts (AOR) to the lists. Of course as mentioned before you will need to have a membership or home park. With us our home park is in Georgia but we have never been there yet.
Costs:
PA costs us $50 per year and we can stay in their parks for 50% off the public price. C2C costs us $100 per year and ROD/AOR is $169 per year. Our home park price is $40 per year. There are stipulations with all of these programs that must be worked through. The biggest one is most of these parks lock you out for holidays. Another draw back is finding a park along the route you are traveling or planning your travel with these parks. We use PA as one night sleep overs. If there is too much distance between the parks we are going to we can always find a PA for the night. We try to use ROD as much as possible since we can stay in those parks for 1 week at no cost. C2C is $10.00 per night and AOR is $9.00 per night. Some parks charge extra for an extra person, some charge extra for 50 amp electric, all of this varies from park to park. That covers costs of the systems. I do not have particulars for Thousand Trails.
Downside:
When we joined ROD it also included lots of parks that were TT parks. Not sure what happened but they had a split and all of the TT parks are no longer available to ROD members. IMHO that was a very bad move by ROD. ROD does have good availability on the East coast but very scarce in the middle states. They have a good representation on the West coast. AOR just started charging $3.00 a reservation on top of the $9.00 per night park stay. AOR also has no way of reserving other than calling them on the phone Mon. thru Fri. They will probably be dropped next renewal time. C2C has a good representation of parks throughout the states.
We traveled all the way across the North from coast to coast and stayed exclusively in all of these parks. We found good parks and bad parks in every system. we are currently in the Southeast and still using all of these parks and we are very satisfied. The gem of all of these seems to be PA. For the most part we use these as 1 night stops and I have found these parks to be nice (exceptions to every rule of course).
My initial buy in was through a reseller and is a one time fee. My buy-in was $900 if memory serves me right. This is the only way to go as far as I'm concerned should you decide to go this route. There are others I have not mentioned, maybe another member can shed light on them such as Escapees, Enjoy America.
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2013 Itasca Ellipse 43' ISL 8.9
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09-10-2012, 09:29 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: somewhere in the west
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Boondock with solar power.
Ed
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09-10-2012, 09:59 AM
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Senior Member
Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: On Wheels
Posts: 1,983
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Main way we keep our camping costs down are:
- Staying monthly at private parks. Many monthly rates can be very attractive.
- Workamping for a free site. We just spent 2 months as lighthouse hosts on the Oregon coast and didn't pay any camping fees. It was fun and a gorgeous spot too!
- Boondocking in winter. You can boondock much of the SW desert for free.
- Staying in public parks. Some BLM sites are as cheap as $5/night. Certain states (e.g. New Mexico) have outstanding yearly camping passes.
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