I posted these pull-thru pics on the 2017 thread since we got here on 12/31 but since we’ve stayed for 2 weeks and it’s now 2018, I’ll repeat them.
We leave tomorrow from Breezy Hill RV Park in Pompano Beach, FL.
First, we were in a horrid pull-thru for the first 6 nights. Absolute puts and parking spots and terrible-ness.
Front-side, I put an orange cone down at our rear steps to help our front-side neighbor not trip coming out of their door.
And here’s the back-side when I got neighbors. Yes, our slides actually overlap. You had to zig-zag to walk between the rigs.
The neighbor got really lucky he didn’t take out the site # post with his slide. He had extended them and then backed up so his sewer hose would reach (centered in the parking pad to the far rear).
On Saturday, they moved us early to our back-in site. The challenge here was getting into it. They spots are flag pole layouts meaning there’s a site in the front left and one in the rear right. The rear right has a long driveway.
The good, my neighbor gladly moved his truck. If he hadn’t, there’s no way I would have even been able to attempt it.
Between the front side rig sticking out to the road, a light pole on the other side, and a motorcycle across the street- parking was an event. Add that we had 5-6 watchers congregated and chittering to each other in French as we parked, a good time was had by all.
We came close to giving up and someone went looking for the owner of the motorcycle. See the covered bike here (thing in black):
You can see my daughter keeping a watchful eye. I say I came within a foot or two, she says 6-8”. Our mantra is “close is OK, contact is not”. The neighbors never found the owner but wife and I got the rig slide back in any how.
Here’s what the front looked like after the neighbor brought his truck back.
The good part is, our yard is actually quite nice and there is a big patio. (Painted cement, though- so it’s slick when wet... which was many days of our stay! Only 1 fall and it was the 5 year old, thankfully!)
The good: the staff of the park have been incredibly friendly. I dealt with the maintenance man when we got here and found our pull-thru spot was already taken. We dealt with the front desk staff 3-4 times to get us settled any while English wasn’t their first language, they spoke it fluently and were friendly.
The pool area appears nice and there are a lot of activities.
The bad: we paid for 11 nights: 1 week of the weekly rate and 4 nights at daily rates. The nightly total averaged $72/night. We then stayed 4 additional nights for $0 using the Trails Collection program with Thousand Trails. My total average ended up being $52/night for the 15 nights that we are spending here. ($50/night is the upper end of my budgeted average.)
All of the sites here are this snug and many worse. Friends kissed a fence trying to get back into their site today. [emoji20]
That said, I had a heck of a time finding availability at any park reasonably close to Delray Beach, FL where we had friends who we were trying to be near. And most of those parks were $90/night for the few nights they had available.
We lost water twice. Electric flickered once.
Music at surrounding sites has been loud quite a few nights until close to midnight. There’s a sister campground just behind our site (with a white fence in between) that has had music also playing there (which I can hear right now at 10:50pm) and has had barking dogs for long periods during the day. The RV park office is staffed 9-5 M-F with no indication how you would find someone in the off hours except for the maintenance guy. (Who in my 2 calls was courteous and helpful each time!)
All told- this hasn’t been our favorite 2 weeks.
The upside: we spent great time with friends. Swimming in the ocean in January is AWESOME. The weather was unusually cool but we lucked into great beach weather yesterday.
Even saw a shark!
And saw the future that I want. I want to be this lady one day:
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