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RESORTS WITH AGE LIMITS
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Andy just proved the restrictions are all about image and have nothing to do with the people.
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I don’t understand why this is such a struggle. Why do you want people advertising on here that want nothing to do with our old buses.
You know why they are doing it? Because right now they can. The RV Market as a whole has been thru the roof for a couple years.
Any high end park is booked solid months in advance, why try to understand the needs of the few. They don’t need to.
Our park in Montana has a simple policy which at first I didn’t really agree with but after time and thought I found it to be considerate of peoples feelings and also enables us to get the riff raff out if needed.
Your vehicle must be a Class A registered vehicle or Bus conversion and must
SHOW PRIDE OF OWNERSHIP.
If not they are routed to the KOA in the back and if their full they are asked to leave. This has happened on a few occasions.
Later
bv
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We agree with Jon and Tom. We are not returning to Naples MC Resort, nor any others (many) with these restrictions unless a dire emergency arises that forces us to, the particular day it happens. Accepting advertisement from places that have such requirements earns, or may earn, enough business from qualified coaches to continue operating with coach age restrictions with little or no financial downside. Yes, we enjoyed these places, which was the reason to spend that of money, and will miss them. But we’ll move on. Otherwise, there would be little incentive to remove the age requirement.
Our two cents.
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Don’t shoot the messenger, but I would like to make some observations: –
- First, our coach is in the over 10-year old category.
- There are PC members that have coaches that are newer than 10 years old that may want to stay at the restricted age RV resorts. Would this not discriminate against those members?
- Without the age restrictions, the resorts would have to accept any RV over 10 years old, no matter if it is a pristine Prevost/SOB or a held-together-with-duct-tape plastic RV to avoid having a discrimination suit on their hands. The approval process may be what their association attorney advised them to do.
- As with anything, there will always be the resorts that have no exceptions to the age restriction. No different than 55+ only parks (people age, not coach age).
- Advertisers would need to advertise whether they are ‘mature-coach friendly’ or not to avoid any misunderstandings with the members.
- Bottom line, advertisers will not stay with the PC site if they do not realize a return on their advertising dollars.
June
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I don’t know if any RV resorts with age restrictions advertise on our site right now but if they are not presently they already have decided where they want to spend their advertising dollars. If any that do advertise have age restrictions it is not in the body of text in their ad. I would think if they wanted to maintain their “image” they would mention that because without that knowledge our members might want to visit the resort, only to find they are turned away. I would guess if folks advertise here they would welcome all members.
When the economy took a serious hit around 2007 / 2008 production of conversions dropped significantly so those with coaches within the acceptable age range are relatively few and maybe the restricted RV resorts know that and don’t want to buy advertising on a site with very few who meet the standard.
If my interpretation of the responses is correct most members are OK with not allowing age restricted RV resorts to advertise here, but there is also a sense from the comments if we do decide to allow them to advertise they should clearly state their age restriction policy.
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Jon,
It seems you have summed up the consensus perfectly. With regard to my comment above, I completely respect your right to not do business with them. However, I feel that Karma and the free market will do
a much better job without this having to
take this action. Jeff -
For me, I would always prefer to go to a RV resort with age limits.
Any resort with kids under 21 would be off my recommended list. Last thing I want is some kids screaming and running their big wheels into my SOB coach.
Oh! You guys are talking about a different age limit… sorry.
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I agree with Jeff. We obviously have a coach over 10 years of age. I looked this morning on the PC website (the ONLY Prevost website I look at anymore) and noticed that the Motorcoach Exchange has a 2007 Liberty XLII for sale for $699,000. I would be awfully miffed if I dropped $700,000 including taxes, licensing, and a reasonable stocked of aged cheddar and found out I couldn’t go to that RV resort near Naples where we were considering spending a month this winter for maybe more than a year. What would happen on January 1st when our coach would be eleven years old?
But at the same time I could probably buy a five or six year old plastic S&S motorhome for LESS money and be welcomed into the 10 year campgrounds with open arms and while we’re there subject the campers in the more restrictive campground to a steady stream of mobile R/V repair service trucks needed to keep a plastic S&S motorhome livable.
What happens three or four years down the road if I buy a seven year old motor coach (or plastic S&S), spend a couple of hundred thousand on a site, and find myself with a non-conforming coach or motorhome? I wonder if the developers and the HOA’s have really thought through the ramifications of these restrictions.
I encourage Jon and Tom to take the money from the 10 year restricted campgrounds, require that they post in the ads their discriminatory practices especially as they relate to age of coach, segregate the revenue, and then use that revenue to fund activities and events at no rally rallies.
When I get caught up with polishing the copper plumbing on our Liberty Coach, I’ll do some research into the federal fair housing laws as they might relate to discrimination and RV resorts and campgrounds. Maybe I’ll find something surprising there.
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I agree
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Right now we’re in ’10 yr old or like new condition resort’ waiting to get caught.
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Doug and Mary have chosen to live awfully dangerously!
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Doug must have traded his Marathon in on a 2017 Winnebago, good disguise Doug.
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