Discount Programs RV Resorts
Hello Drake,
We just last weekend spend a 3 day 2 night visit to a Thousand Trails Preserve. They have 3 levels of membership - Country, Region and Zone. Country is just that - all the US. Region is the US divided basically into thirds and each 1/3 is a region. Zone is each region divided into smaller areas - usually about 5 states. Each has an annual fee of about $300.00/year.
Pricing if I recall correctly is $8995, $6995 & $4995. With a special offer (like if you sign today...) it was all reduced about $2000. for each value.
We are considering the zone as you get the local states, access to all other 1000 Trails campsites, and what interested us most is another whole selection of RPI campsites at $5.00/night all across the country. They indiated they all have to meet the standards of Thousand Trails inspectors - whatever that is. We are going to make a trip back to Ca sometime, but not sure when. That alone would justify about 1/3 of the package.
If you are going to do calculations on these figures, remember to figure against a per night basis. If you camp 10 weekends/year thats 20 nights out - when figuring a per trip basis.
We used $30.00/night and figure after 100 trips/2 nights per trip we were pretty even.
These are transferable (you can pass to your kids, resell, etc). Some suggest looking into finding someone wanting to sell their membership.
You can go to the Thousand Trails site and request a trial visit for about $30.00 for a weekend with the agreement to listen to their sales pitch. Ours was free as we received a 'Complimentary Passport' in the mail. We had a good time.
Bruce & Carolyn Wittmeier
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Edited by - wittmeba on Jul 23 2002 11:41:32 PM