SWEET! We're at our new "home park" in Crossville, TN ( http://www.aorcamping.com/resort_directory/aor_resorts/tennessee/docs/breckenridgelake.html ) and we're only paying $2 a night because it's our first visit. Sure beats the $40 a night ( or more) in the Northeast!
Now you may be asking, "What's a home park?" OK. I'll tell ya!
If you're a full time RV'er, then there are camp "memberships" that you can buy which allows you to stay at certain RV parks across the country for $10 a night. Like a time share, if you buy one directly from the "company" then you could spend $3,000 to $10,000 for one of these memberships. Your membership is to a "home park" and you get discounts to other RV parks that are associated with whatever association your home park is a member of.
There are three national associations that sell these memberships:
1. http://www.1000trails.com/ - We did NOT join this.
2. http://www.coastresorts.com/directory/index.cfm - Coast To Coast or as it's sometimes referred to: C2C. We DID get a membership in this one.
3. http://www.resortparks.com/ - Resort Parks International (RPI). We got a membership to this one too!
Since our "home park" is part of the C2C association and the RPI association we also get access to all the RPI and C2C campgrounds scattered across the country. We can stay at one park for 7 days in a row and then we HAVE to be "out of the system" for another 7 days before we can go back to a membership park. The beauty is: we can stay at a C2C park for 7 days and then go directly to a RPI park for another 7 days at a cost of $10 a night!
We won't always be in an area where there is a membership park and that's OK because this will cut our camping costs in half at least!
AND... I bought my membership off Ebay from a reseller for a fraction of what it would have cost new! I love a good bargain!
We're just hanging out here in Crossville waiting for the leaves to change. Tough life huh? hehehe
There are three national associations that sell these memberships:
1. http://www.1000trails.com/ - We did NOT join this.
2. http://www.coastresorts.com/directory/index.cfm - Coast To Coast or as it's sometimes referred to: C2C. We DID get a membership in this one.
3. http://www.resortparks.com/ - Resort Parks International (RPI). We got a membership to this one too!
Since our "home park" is part of the C2C association and the RPI association we also get access to all the RPI and C2C campgrounds scattered across the country. We can stay at one park for 7 days in a row and then we HAVE to be "out of the system" for another 7 days before we can go back to a membership park. The beauty is: we can stay at a C2C park for 7 days and then go directly to a RPI park for another 7 days at a cost of $10 a night!
We won't always be in an area where there is a membership park and that's OK because this will cut our camping costs in half at least!
AND... I bought my membership off Ebay from a reseller for a fraction of what it would have cost new! I love a good bargain!
We're just hanging out here in Crossville waiting for the leaves to change. Tough life huh? hehehe
