trouble making campground reservation

[LWW]

Anyone have trouble getting a reservation because they have a homebuilt camper. I just tried a campground in Mobil, not going to say which yet, but they said if I couldn't give them an inspection number, as in a manufactured plate number I couldn't stay there.Larry

[jss06]

I have not had any issues with KOA, Texas State parks or National Parks.

[deleted]

I had something similar happen to me at a county fairground trailer park. Except they didn't realize I didn't have the inspection info until the next morning because the person who checked me in overlooked it by accident. They came and told me the next morning that if I came back again they wouldn't be able to let me stay.

[DrCrash]

Really never heard of such a thing.
If someone told me that at a campground I would not stay there !
I really think a list should be made so we know what campgrounds NOT to spend my money in.

[MtnDon]

I don't recall where I read this, but the person stated that some RV park would not accept them because their home built trailer did not have an RVIA sticker or serial number plate. I probably wouldn't want to stay there anyhow if they are so stuck up on rules that make no sense. But then I'm used to sleeping in the back of a pickup truck. Under a cap; we do it deluxe....

[deleted]

RVIA sticker

That was it! I didn't have a RIVA sticker. The thing is the campground I stayed at was great because most in the area have a two night minimum and were much more expensive than the fairground's rate (and I only needed to be there one night). But what can you do? They said it was due to insurance/liability issues that they had to require it. I could tell the man who worked there had no problem with my trailer. Just following/enforcing the rules. I do wish they had put that information online because if I'd arrived and they had turned me away I probably would have ended up a lawbreaker by boondocking on a city street for the first time

[LWW]

That was the sticker they told me. I think it's a manufactures plate of somekind. They were affiliated with a group of fulltime RV'ers call "Escapee" or S K P for short. The Campground I had called was called "Rainbow Campgrounds" just South of Mobile. We wanted to stay there Easter Weekend to visit my stepson for the weekend. Good thing KOA in Lillian is more agreeable. Larry

[Shadow Catcher]

The RVIA is a standards organization and you as a manufacturer pay them a fee to have that sticker. Our trailer was manufactured to RVIA standards but does not have the sticker and I do not particularly care. I do have a certificate of origin...
To my thinking it is bogus, and it is a way for camp grounds to discriminate.

[Vedette]

I am afraid I would have told them too F........?
And asked them if they knew the meaning of the words "Black List" ?????
Then just out of spite I would have started a list of these Ass....s! and posted it on every national camping forum I could find in my retirement time off!
Good Roads
Brian & Sandi
PS
Walmart, Walmart, Walmart!!!!!

[gudmund]

I second Brian's response and probably would have also told them if they wanted me as a customer they are welcome to go out and crawl under the trailer and look for it if they wanted me to stay there. idiots !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Irmo Atomics]

I've use the tags to cover holes in old aluminum. Here's a tag from an old popup that I bought for parts, it's covering a hole on my Alaskan camper project. My Alaskan didn't have a tag originally. You can find the tags on ebay sometimes.

RVIA tag.JPG (92.36 KiB) Viewed 963 times

[GerryS]

Sold.....obviously you advertisement worked . Curious if there's a. Ore ready source....eBay is a little unpredictable on its "inventory"

[rowerwet]

Something else to save on the old pop ups we tear down for the trailer

[48Rob]

Of course the simple answer if you are offended by someones choice to exclude you is to not stay there.

However, getting all upset and spouting about how denying the campground your $25.00 fee will surely make them sorry...makes little sense.

Sorry, but you should step back and think this through...

On the other side of the coin, consider the campgrounds position;

Perhaps in the past, the campground has hosted a rag-tag band of "travelers", or some old hippy bus, or some brewed in the woods homemade contraption.
Maybe the wiring or plumbing was not up to a reasonable code, and when they turned on a few things in their camper, it back fed into the campgrounds electrical system causing damage to other guests campers.
Perhaps the home brewed water and sewer systems in the home made campers allowed black water into the campgrounds fresh water system, making other guests sick?

Insurance companies do have a lot of control over what they will allow. Of course you can do as you wish, but you can also lose your campground/livelihood if someone sues you and you don't have insurance.

Maybe it has nothing to do with the insurance company, but rather the campground is reasonably successful in keeping most of its spots rented to xyz people with xyz types of campers. Along comes a home built or two full of loud, rowdy young people, or a few bad experiences with home builts dumping raw sewage on the ground causes the regular customers to tell the campground that they are going to camp somewhere else if these kind of people are allowed?
If it was your business, or your paycheck, and you were going to lose 90%+ of your income, what would you do?

Campgrounds are a business, and like any business, exist to make a profit by selling goods or services.
If a campground turns away your home built, it likely has very good reason, as your money is just as green as the guy with the RVIA sticker on his camper.
There has to be a good reason, that fits their business and circumstances, or they would soon be bankrupt.

Rob

[Shadow Catcher]

Rob has a point and I did encounter a camp ground in California with an age restriction, RV no older than X. But when I looked up the police record for the location and found it had a record for a bunch of robberies in the park I lost interest and found Big Basin Redwoods.