Future Rally Site??

[Loc]

I came across a new rv park that is opening this year that looks like it would be perfect for a POG Rally. It is called Cajun Palms and it is located in Lafeyette, Louisiana just off of I-10. The website says the park will have 300 full hookup sites, three pools, two fishing ponds, 20 cabins, wi-fi, a clubhouse rally hall that can accomodate 300 people has an exercise room and a movie theater, and a partridge and a pear tree. The website is www.cajunpalms.com.

[merle&louise]

Loc,

You have found a diamond in the ruff. This place looks like a great place for a rally. I live about 100 miles away and this is the first that I have heard of it. An April rally would coincide with crawfish season; and the area has great restaurants, golf, cajun swamp tours, and casinos.

Count me in on this one!

[Gary & Peggy Stevens]

This does look like a great site, but I don't think they will be open and ready for an early 2008 rally, but maybe?

Gary S.

[dalej]

I thought we are headed to TN in april!

[CAPT MOGUL & Sandy]

Loc, We just recently tried to make reservations Panama City Beach RV Resort and they would not give us a reservation without a pic of our '97 Royale. Their policy is "only RVs under 10 years old except with special consideration for older ones". We have to make sure this place doesn't have that policy. I wouldn't give anyone my $$ with that rule or even bother with them. Come on! I was upset when I talked to them and told them all about our bus. Still in the end. Send a pic and we will consider it. NO Way!
Sandy

[merle&louise]

Loc, We just recently tried to make reservations Panama City Beach RV Resort and they would not give us a reservation without a pic of our '97 Royale. Their policy is "only RVs under 10 years old except with special consideration for older ones". We have to make sure this place doesn't have that policy. I wouldn't give anyone my $$ with that rule or even bother with them. Come on! I was upset when I talked to them and told them all about our bus. Still in the end. Send a pic and we will consider it. NO Way!
Sandy

I'm with you Sandy; that is crapola!

There is another nice RV resort in Panama City; Emerald Beach RV resort. I don't think that they have that stupid policy. We stayed there a few years ago in a 1993 Newell and they didn't say anything about the 10 year rule.
Whenever I am making a reservation and am told about that 10 year rule, I just tell them to cancel my reservation, I'll stay somewhere else.

[merle&louise]

I thought we are headed to TN in april!

Dale,

I didn't mean this April; just one April in the future. I am up for the Tenn. rally in Sevierville.

[dalej]

Ed, we had talked about this some time ago....you and everyone that has a prevost has a 9 year old bus or newer, wink, wink! when making reservations that is.

[Jon Wehrenberg]

I'm right in the middle on this issue and can see both sides.

A campground owner is a private business and he has a right to serve anyone he wants to as long as the rules are not prejudicial. We have been in a lot of campgrounds that impose restrictions on the type of rigs such as motorhomes only, no trailers less than 26 feet, etc. I believe from discussing this with owners they are attempting to cater to a clientelle that is willing to pay more for a site than average, and it is the campground owner's opinion that to maintain a degree of snob appeal the coaches have to be fairly new.

I have no data nor do I know where to get data that shows a RV park owner is better off limiting the age of customer's coaches.

I do know this pisses off a lot of RV owners. They get seriously mad. I drive a bus that is over 10 years old depending on how you measure age. If I know up front I am not welcome I am more accepting of that fact than if I have a reservation and get turned away when I am checking in. I don't care if an RV park owner is so rich he can turn away potential customers. I'll just continue down the road. I believe I can find a site somewhere.

The Prevost Proud used to exclude anyone that did not have a Prevost. That is discrimination also.

[phorner]

I agree with you, Jon. As an independent businessman, a park owner should have the right to operate his business in a manner that he feels is best. If that operation proves to be counter-productive, then perhaps a change would be in order. I can see good arguments on both sides of this coin.

A lot of times, it would be less objectionable if a restrictive policy is known beforehand and the caller is perhaps given the name and number of a very nice campground nearby that would accept them.

Sometimes it's not so much what you say but how you say it that matters.

If the message comes across as demeaning and offensive it creates bad feelings.

It is possible to still be helpful and courteous even when you can't fulfill the request.

As president of our HOA, I've had similar issues to deal with and, if you at least treat people with fairness and respect, it goes a long way when you have to tell someone "I'm sorry, but we can't do that"....