rvonthegogo
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Hi I've been fulltiming 3 years now. Still im confused about all the contracts and memberships offered. Currently i have 3 memberships. 1000 trails elite, rpi gold preffered and enjoy America. Here's the figures. I usually pay from 132 to 350 tops to camp per month hooked up full time. Thousand trails is 42 a Month for yearly dues and 3 dollars a day. 21 days in 7 days out if going to the same park or no time out if going to another park. 50 percent off cabin rentals 60 days free a year. So it cost me 135 a month if i just stayed 1000 trails all year and went from park to park every 21 days. My membership is paid off but if i bought new i would be paying an additional 118 a month for 6 years so 250 a month total if i just bought it, still not bad. Now lets talk about rpi membership. I pay 132 a year for preffered gold, and paid 400 initialy to join. This membership lets me stay at any of the hundreds of campgrounds for 10 dollars a night, so i pay about 290 a month + 42 thousand trails dues so about 332 if i stayed at all rpi parks. Still not bad with so many campgrounds to choose from. Now the last enjoy America isn't really a membership more of a discount program so i can stay at any one of there hundreds of campgrounds for half price, i usually only stay at one of these if my membership resorts aren't nearby. If i were to stay full time with enjoy America it would cost about 450 or more a month, a little pricey. I've found out the secret to getting the best bang for your buck is to have more than one membership because of the gas cost, but i know im still just a newbie to rving and have a lot to learn. So to all the other fulltimers out there what kind of memberships do you have? How much do you pay monthly? What memberships would you recommend? Am i missing out on some good campgrounds or do these memberships have most of them covered? Thanks in advance to all the helpful rvers on this forum.
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BarbaraOK
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Unfortunately TT pulled out of ROD, we really like them.
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enblethen
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We have Good Sam and Passport America.
Passport America has restrictions at some locations but we are able to adjust schedule around them.
We dropped our KOA membership as their rates kept climbing and quality of some of the parks was going down. Haven't missed KOA a bit.
We had a membership style which was affilitated with RPI and Coast to Coast. It was nearly impossible for us to use. Home park went public so they would take people off the street for around $30 a night and turn away home park members.
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Good Sam and Passport covers the majority. We found out years ago that most fairgrounds and there a lot of county parks at half the cost of campgrounds.
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samsontdog
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Thousand Trails (25 years ) $275 year for dues. Can use every day of the year at
no extra charge unless I use 50 amp site
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n7bsn
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BarbaraOK wrote:Unfortunately TT pulled out of ROD, we really like them.
Barb
From talking with the management of a membership campground, my understanding is ROD kicked TT out for refusing to compile with the rules, in regards to ROD members using TT parks.
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missourijan
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Good Sam & Passport America. Agree with past-MIdirector, we also stay at city, county, fairground & casino campgrounds when we can. We park host for 6 months and travel 6 months, even at the price of a resale membership I can't justify the cost for a Coast 2 Coast membership. We had a temp membership a few years ago when they offered it at $75 for one year and liked it but until we travel more we find many bargains, mostly with Passport America.
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BarbaraOK
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n7bsn wrote:BarbaraOK wrote:Unfortunately TT pulled out of ROD, we really like them.
Barb
From talking with the management of a membership campground, my understanding is ROD kicked TT out for refusing to compile with the rules, in regards to ROD members using TT parks.
Well, when you agree to do the change, and they rescind the agreement, wouldn't you call that pulling out? What was ROD suppose to do? The agreement was that they would allow ROD into ALL of the TT parks, not just NACO and Leisure Time after an agreement upon time. So I don't think you can characterize it as ROD kicking TT out but rather TT not living up to their agreement.
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