We've stayed at this park twice before and have enjoyed our visits. It's a great park. We are here now. At first I didn't want to write this because someone here might see it and give me trouble for doing so but decided to do it anyway. We made reservations for a water front site 4 months in advance and arrived last Tuesday at about 1030. We knew we were early and would have no problem waiting for our site to open. On driving in we saw only one site (#18) open and assumed we would get it. We were assigned Site #10 which is next to Site #8A which is a search on the grass squeezed in between Sites 8 and 10. I asked the host if we could have #18 instead since it was available. He said #18 is not available and our site was going to be #10 and we would have to park across the street and wait for the current occupants to leave. We waited for 2 1/2 hours and while setting up, a motorhome came in and parked in #18. I again talked to the host. He explained that we were staying for 10 days and the person in #18 is staying for 5 days followed by someone staying for 10 days. Will someone tell me what he is talking about. It didn't take me long to figure out that he was saving #18 for his or some other staff members friends. It seems to me that at this place, if you belong to the "Pelican Roost Cliche" you can do just about anything you want to. I love this place but after 5 days I'm still upset at the treatment I received on Tuesday. I don't know if I'll come back here.
On thing I forgot to mention on my last post is that site 8A is an additional site that uses the lawn area that would normally belong to site 10. A small Minnie Winnie type RV is in that site now and I measured the distance from my slideout to their slide out and it's less than 6 feet. I'm not blaming the occupants of this RV. They were put in a lousy site also and they are very close to the RV on the other side. Also, I wasn't told the truth on Tuesday when I checked. The host told me that he had people coming in for 5 days on that site. This morning they moved out after 4 days and immediately another RV pulled into the site. As for reporting things to the MWR office, I don't think those people ever pay attention to what is going on in the campgrounds. I also think that they already know what is going on and is okay with it. The only way you are going to change things is to rotate these permanent homesteading campground hosts out. Only then will the cliches breakup and the favortism stops.
Ok. I know I spelled the word wrong. The spelling should be clique instead of cliches. Two different words and two different meanings. Cliche is an expression and Clique (sounds like click)is a group of people.
We really enjoy the Roost and visit a couple of times each year. Sometimes we get a great site and sometimes a not so great site but there all good sites in a special location at the mouth of the Saint John River and Atlantic Ocean. All of the water front sites are not created equal. We like the new plan where you can reserve a WF site for a couple of bucks more but I'm sure it adds headaches to the folks taking reservations and then making sure they have a WF spot for the folks that reserve them. Someone has to get the couple of sites you describe. Personally I think it was just the luck of the draw that you ended up in that site. Cancelations and no shows probably complicate the issue too. Someone that reserved a WF site also had that site before you got there and someone else will draw that straw when you leave. JMHO Bob
I understand what you are saying but, when a better site is available the first person there should get it, otherwise you are saving it for someone. They can say all they want to about the computer picking the sites, I'm going to Pensacola next week and when I made reservations, they told me what site I'll be on. I've been there several times and it's pretty set that I'll be on that site. When I get there they will not try to push me off on something else.
