Re: Rooki looking for info on private resort memberships
Good Sam, Passport, Taco, and others offer services and discounts in exchange for an annual fee. Most RV parks will offer a Good Sam discount usually 10% of whatever you pay for up front, for the first night, or some other plan.
The park pays an annual fee to Good Sam for the advertising and promotion of their park, and Good Sam has RVers visit and rate the park for the Good Sam books and web site. The other groups do similar things.
The key difference is that you are not obligated to do anything or go anywhere.
That is what RVing is all about; going where you want, when you want, and how you want.