Re: Some campgrounds
Rule of thumb: If there is only one review and its positive it usually is someone that has a vested interest in the RV park. We usually try to find parks that have multiple reviews and then average them.
Most of us have had a bad experience in a RV park. When I do I unload on the review I write. But, if my review is the only bad review of many good reviews, then maybe I just had an unusual bad experience or I was having a bad day. In either case, I still submit my bad review. We ALL see things differently or have different opinions of any experience.
I also submit good or outstanding reviews of RV parks. I don't inflate them. My typical review is probably around a 6 or 7 if the park is average. Most of the reviews are maybe 1 point higher than mine, but I believe average is average. I seldom ever give a park a 10. It's hard to be that good.
I don't just use the Rvparkreviews to determine if I'm going to stay at a particular park. I check out the parks ads and ratings in the various RV Park Directories and any other info I can get my hands on. However, I DO FIND that RV Park Directories seem to have biased high ratings of some RV parks that seem to be determined more by how much ad space the Parks buy or if they are members of certain organizations, than by how good the park actually is..
Bottom line: the reviews on
www.RVparkreviews.com are only as good as the input. So the more RV'ers that take the time to review the parks the better the product. I have found RVparkreviews managers/moderators are unbiased and go out of their way to cater to the RV'ers and not the Owners/managers. As far as I can tell, they don't take bribes/money/ads from the RV park owners and that is unique in this day and age.