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| Shopping for the perfect campsite |
Remember back in the day, when you reserved a site, you could ask for your favorite site and if was still available you could have that site saved for you? Families would reserve the same sites each summer for their vacations. There wasn't any extra fee for this guarantee.
Fast forward to 2023, this practice still exists at some campgrounds but at many, you reserve a site type (pull thru, back in, 50 Amp, etc.) and get put where the park puts you. Unless, of course you put in a site lock fee. What IS a lock fee and why does locking a site have an extra fee?
Site Lock Fees
Ever drive around a sold out campground and wonder how a 14 foot pop up ended up on a 110 foot site? Here’s how that happens. The guest booked that site online. They picked that specific site and locked it. Now its important to note that some campgrounds will not let you pick what site you want. You may not even know, or care. In the past, other campgrounds like Hidden Valley RV Park let you select the exact site you wanted when booking. However that sometimes hurts the campground, how?
Imagine this sequence of events:
July 4th weekend and Hidden Valley is almost sold out. The only sites left are a 100' and a 30' site. A family with a pop up goes online and books the 100' site. Now a guest calls looking for a site for his
