by Arne » Fri Nov 05, 2004 8:24 am
On the trip, I chose commercial campgrounds for several reasons:
- Shirley (likes her comforts, including shower and real toilet; I can't disagree too much)
- Electricity (cold nights, cable tv) made things a lot more comfortable after we sacked out for the night.
I hope in the future we can alternate between state/national parks and commerical, to get the benefits of both.
an aside: good sam ratings are iffy. KOA were generally above all the rest. Especially the shower/restrooms..... and we joined koa and get a 10% discount. they are also usually the most expensive....
regarding wi-fi. One of the first campgrounds we stayed, in Luray, Virginia, had free wi-fi.... very nice. Most had free cable-modem, dialup... the places that advertised wi-fi had a service you had to join (guess it is a profit center for the campground) and none had the same service. So, I would have had to join a separate service each time, so chose to not use wi-fi unless it was free, which was uncommon.
In that vain, koa is attempting to have a universal wi-fi provider. That would probably get me going to koa's every couple of days to update my financial downloads (needed for my business).