As a first time Rally attendee, I want to say that it was fun and very informative. Cudos to Marcus, for the great talk about what is and will be happening with Good Sam and Camping World. The efforts being made by him and his staff are just what is needed, in such uncertain times. I for one, am excited about the future of the club and look forward to the days ahead. Also, the work being done with abandoned pets is incredible. Macktee
Marcus:
Glad to meet you and put some ideas in your mine.
You have are putting new spirit into the Good Sam Club with your changes.
See you in Calgary!
mlemonis wrote: Actually I'm still here
I leave today back to my day job
Wow was the rally fun or what
We had a great time and learned a great deal on how to make it better
People were very understanding especially at the private VIP lifetime party
Lots of great photos for everyone, great food, great fun and great people
See you in Louisville
Well Marcus you certainly turned me around. I started out day 1 giving the rally an "F" changed it later in the day to a "D". After attending both Bill Cosby and Martina McBride and hearing you talk and thinking about how the last year has evolved I in my own opinion upgrade to a "B+". The only reason it is not an "A" is because there is always room for improvement. You have done wonders with help I am sure from others in the past year with Good Sam/Camping World combining and working with FlyingJ/Pilot to help bring us RV'ers a better chance of continuing to do what we love. I could go on but I am on my iPhone Hot Spot and limited...
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mlemonis wrote: Actually I'm still here
I leave today back to my day job
Wow was the rally fun or what
We had a great time and learned a great deal on how to make it better
People were very understanding especially at the private VIP lifetime party
Lots of great photos for everyone, great food, great fun and great people
See you in Louisville
Well Marcus you certainly turned me around. I started out day 1 giving the rally an "F" changed it later in the day to a "D". After attending both Bill Cosby and Martina McBride and hearing you talk and thinking about how the last year has evolved I in my own opinion upgrade to a "B+". The only reason it is not an "A" is because there is always room for improvement. You have done wonders with help I am sure from others in the past year with Good Sam/Camping World combining and working with FlyingJ/Pilot to help bring us RV'ers a better chance of continuing to do what we love. I could go on but I am on my iPhone Hot Spot and limited...
Well said Lee!
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We were really disappointed with our fellow rv'ers in motorhomes that were around us as these inconsiderate, I would say ignorant but that would be impolite, people had to have their generators running constantly from 7 to 11 every day. Yes,I know those are the hours to run your generators but the whole time. Get an electrical site if you need so much power. The fumes and the noise made it impossible for us to sit outside. We were also unable to open our windows for the same reason.
This was our first and last rally.................
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Lenny K...you might try going to the Rally like we did. We bought the Passport this year and stayed at a local RV park. We drove our car over and had easy parking each day we wanted to be there and for the shows. We have gone to two other Rally's and stayed on the Rally grounds. This was our first time "off campus" using the Passport. We liked it much better and will use this method for any future Rallys. Just a suggestion.
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We had a great time at the rally. It was our first one. It was the biggest rally we have ever attended. The entertainment was great, we enjoyed the outside evening stands seating.
The coffee with Marcus: you complained that many of us did not attend. The problem was you held it at 8am! Not all of us are 5am risers. We were Passport attendees and were camped 30 mins away and had to drive in morning traffic, find a parking spot, walk far to get to the tram and then wait in line, ride the tram to the entrance, walk back to put our bags at the bag hold then we could be ready to go to a seminar/coffee. How about 11:00 or 1:00 coffee? We won't miss it if it is at a time all can get there.
Couple changes for you to consider for Louisville. The Smiles drawing was a lot of work and not so fun for participants. The first day the prize announcement poster had ticket number and name the rest of the rally only numbers were posted What a pain that was copying down the whole list of number finding a place to sit and comparing the list to the many many tickets we held. Also was not so fun filling out the info on so many tickets some vendors gave out 10-20 tickets at a time and others said they didn't know anything about it. Since you are doing this at Louisville please post names and ticket numbers.
The Match Game was fun. I found 2 matches and my husband found 1 so we were in the drawing.
Super Duper Prizes: While it was fun to see some random people get over the top prizes at we ended up leaving the event irritated. Your generosity was wonderful but could you spread the wealth around a little more and give prizes to more of us? My husband was wishing to win the fold up ladder (me, me he said as the name was called or the generator or the TT cover. The lifetime trips, memberships and gas cards were great prizes.
We enjoyed the rally and appreciated that one was held during snowbird time so that many could attend without another long distance expensive drive.
Thanks for asking for input, listening and doing all you can to make this the best rv club. We appreciate you and your Rally team.
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My suggestion for the smiles numbers would be to publish winning numbers on the Rally site and post the URL with the numbers.
Might eliminate crowding at the prize posting. No copying down numbers and easy to transfer to a spreadsheet if they have a return between each one, just copy and paste into the first cell and they automatically fill in. Someone typed them anyway, might as well type them into the website.
Did the name, address, and phone number even matter? I saw some folks using stickers with their info. That would have been easier but just skipping the info would be fine with me.
Prizes make people feel happy, the givers, the receivers and even the onlookers! Didn't win anything but the prizes at all the events were really nice and worth participating for.
I'm planning to go to the June rally too. My first in Phoenix was really fun!
We were at the Phoenix Rally & I am wondering if anyone has received or heard anything about the Gas cards that were mentioned during the evening entertainment.
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