Reservations

[DKRITTER]

We have RV'd for about 10 years now and tend to be what I call destination travelers. We primarily tend to need to go from our home to a destination then back as opposed to A to B to C and so on. So I have tended to be a reservation type person over the years.

More and more when I call to make a reservation at RV Parks I have stayed at for years (so I know the pattern) it has been more and more difficult to get a reservation. I made 2 reservations yesterday based around 4th of July and with both of them I couldn't get close to the spot I wanted because they were already booked up.

A lot of folks don't like to be bound by reservations but it seems to me it's more difficult to get a spot on a park.

 

[FL-JOE]

That is exactly what we were finding out about 5 or 6 weeks ago when we were fine tuning the rest of our annual travels. There may be several factors coming into play for this season but campgrounds have filled up very quickly.

Anyone just wondering around after 4pm looking for a site will end up sleeping in some bad spots this season IMHO because everything will be booked and the Walmarts will be full.

 

[Scooterfan]

All of our (recent) trips required we book 90 days out ? Sign of the times I think.

 

[NGC 613]

I think it will slow down some and soon. The price of fuel may see to that. ??

 

[GeoKat]

Sounds like a good time to invest in a parking lot.

 

[Hillman]

I think it will slow down some and soon. The price of fuel may see to that. ??

If the fuel situation doesn't get some sort of fix by the end of next month, we will be cancelling 45 days worth of reservations at various places.

 

[DKRITTER]

Happy new year

 

["EZ"]

Who can plan that far out??? Not us. So far we've done OK. I can't imagine calling for reservations for Thanksgiving in May!!

 

[Hillman]

Who can plan that far out??? Not us. So far we've done OK. I can't imagine calling for reservations for Thanksgiving in May!!

The "Mary and Joseph-no room at the inn" method of travel? But seriously, I'm not trying to be snarky, but I'm having trouble understanding that kind of life style. Do just wake up one morning and say "Hey, let's go to Colorado today." And then you go. I mean I understand chasing good weather, or having some kind of circuit you follow, but the random times just kind of freaks me out. And I'm not really a control freak or anything, but I like to be prepared. A reservation, a hard copy printout of all confirmations, and a nearby parking lot picked out just in case. My wife used to get mad when I'd tell her to put away the yelp reviews and just pick a restaurant at random, but that's very different from not knowing if I've got a place to sleep at night.

 

[sanda]

Many of us like to 'wing it'. Having to be places at a certain time makes us feel like we are still working. We pick our points a to b and just go for it. Having this flexibility allows us to stop when we want to and see sites along the way that we normally would not have time to stop at if we had to make a reservation time/date ahead of us. I agree it is getting harder to rv this way with all the craziness right now. We are not walmart campers but we do a lot of boondocking which gives us more options.