Annapolis FamCamp

The Good: Value, Location, ease and friendliness of staff. Bad: Sites are more of a parking spot then a campspot. Meaning, you are not really their to enjoy the camping spot. More of a place to park your hotel on wheels so you can get out and visit other spots. We were in spot 13 and it was a 30ft spot. But the staff said it would accomodate our 37ft MH and it did with ease. Spots are level and paved. Rest of the area is somewhat grassy but more muddy. Didn't use the bath house. Their is a sewer dump on site but you are not able to dump from your rig. You can only dump portable totes. The actual sewer dump is at the NEX gas station right outside the campground. The majority of the folks I saw staying here were staying for an extended visit. If you get the chance to request a spot, go for #2. It was a pull thru and easy to access. I am assuming it might be the 40ft spot. I also saw a big Berkshire 40+ft Class A in #3.

This has to be the worst place ever! Glad I was only here 2 days. The site I was in #3 was just long enough for my 32 ft class c, if I would have gone to far back I would have fallen off a cliff. LOT'S of greenery! Make sure it you have pets to have them on flea and tick preventive. Water and electric only. Showers well only one in the women's side. The water drained so slow I'm not sure what I would get! The only good thing about this place is all of the amazing sites to see. Maryland World War II Memorial, and The Naval Academy. Road construction made it a little difficult to get around Annapolis but it is a great town to visit. 

Older CG without sewer and only 30 amp power. Only two or three spots for over 40' rigs. Great location though. Made reservations by phone through Navy Bed = they won't give you one if you say you're over 30' long, but over half the spots will take up to 35' or longer. I was told by another camper to make them online to reserve a longer spot as you can't make one with the MWR people directly. There was one 40' 5th wheel, an at least 40' class A and a couple other long trailers besides us (38') here over the time we spent. The bath house was STILL being worked on and closed. The dump station at the CG is VERY hard to use, but there's another less than a mile away behind the gas station and car wash that's a lot more accessible.

This was our fifth visit (4th review). The bathhouse is finally getting a complete makeover - should be completed in October 2018. We arrived on a Thursday, there was no work on Friday and only 6 hours on Monday. With the bathhouse unavailable, the daily rate is $16 vice the normal $22. Alternate shower facilities are available with a map to them and door code provided at check in. Porta potties are located in the campground. MWR Staff was most accommodating. They allowed us early arrival by a day, then allowed us to relocate to our favorite site. Well stocked Commissary and Exchange are nearby (walking distance). Also nearby is the Gas station (gas only) with car wash and two lane dump station (stop on your way in or out or both). It is still the best value in proximity to both Washington and Baltimore.

WOW, as a Army guy I figured that the USNA FamCamp would be terrific. Really any Walmart would be better. Worst campground we have visited. We arrived thinking we could bike the three miles to downtown Annapolis, not so-very little bike friendly roads. Too far to walk. Good news easy walk to commissary and NEX. It is truly a nasty campground. Stay 30 miles away and rent a car. For six years we cruised on our boat and stopped in Annapolis at least twice a year. Visited the Academy, talked to Blue Angels, saw lots of history. Kinda a bummer this time. We did catch a cab twice a day but that adds $30 or so to the daily bill. At least at Sigsbee you can hop on the bike and ride to breakfast or downtown. This place should rate 5 stars for location but the campground and expense of getting anywhere make it a 3 for me. First and last visit.

WARNING?? I called first thing June 14, 2018 (9am) Karen answered the phone. I told her I needed reservations to stay at this facility. Before I could get much more out of my mouth she transferred me to Navy Bed reservation. I stayed on the line and finally an operator came on. I explained I needed reservations for June 14, 2018 which were same day as we would be arriving around 3 pm. The operator at Navy Bed told me I needed to call Annapolis direct as Navy Bed does not do same day reservations the facility itself does. So I thank the operator and retailed Annapolis/ Karen. Got answering machine. I explained on the machine I had called before she transferred and Navy Bed told me to call her back for same day reservations. It is now about 9:10 am. Just before 5 pm I get a phone call from Karen asking me if I wanted to come in that day. Almost 8 hours later we had given up and went to stay at a expensive KOA. Karen stated well you didn’t tell me it was for same day. Well Karen you never gave me a chance putting me right through to Navy Bed reservations. I didn’t get a very sincere apology. Got the attitude of really don’t care and don’t want to be customer service oriented. SO BEWARE WHEN MAKING RESERVATIONS HERE. 

Although a great location, this place leaves a lot to be desired! I rated the value based on location alone. Most sites are short and maneuvering is tight, so it's not big rig friendly at all. The lighting of the area was non-existent at night. It's located on a slope that has little to no grass, and when it rains, there is a lot of mud run going on all over the camp sites. Facility for showers/toilets were bare bones and out dated. Come on Navy, get with the program on this one, I would have expected a lot better considering it's right across the river from the Academy!! There is plenty of land at this Support Facility that a proper FamCamp could be developed on. The one nice thing about the MWR here is that they rent motorboats; however, they too were in poor shape and old - we had to keep the dewatering pump running the entire time, as there was a small leak somewhere in the hull.

You must make reservations via navybeds telephone reservations, they frown and act like they're doing you special favors if you just show up trying to check in. I stayed here in tent camping a few nights passing thru in 2017 tent camping as it is too cheap $3.50 a nite, place is no better than when I stayed long term (6 weeks) earlier in fall 2016. Management really is dysfunctional here, very corrupt place (base mafia games run rammpet here) which explains the dysfunctional atmosphere. Good example is the campground host isn't present at night, he's actually working down the hill as a charge of quarters in the bachelor enlisted quarters and not around if you have problems/issues-there are people in his RV but they aren't the hosts??? Funnier is he actually physically lives in his conversion van, you'll see a yellow extension cord plugged into his van to power up his fridge when it's around during the day. The people in his van are his moody GF some other young guy named Steve who will drive around the camp host gator service vehicle acting like the campground host-he's friendly and tries to help it not a campground host...not making this up either...campground host is enabled to do this as he's the mwr directors pet-more examples of the corruption/incompatance at this base. During my visit in fall of 2016, older Lady who regularly works the desk weekdays of mwr/campground checkin didn't understand who is eligible to stay there when I called from California initially to make a reservation, she screamed at me in her moody frustrated state which I asked to speak to someone else, or her boss if no one else was available, this enraged her more so I just showed up and checked in when I got there. Needless to say, she decided to carry a grudge and be even more difficult for the duration and forever with me. So moving on, this same lady either knows nothing about the area, facility or chooses to be difficult and not helpful/spiteful (I think the latter) as she was clueless about lap swimming options (this can be done 1130-1330hrs weekdays at academy LeJuenne Hall free of charge) she also overcharged me on a bicycle rental, charging me the daily not weekly rate. She also knew nothing of where to bicycle ride even though she's an Annapolis native (Annapolis-Baltimore trail is awesome ride!) nor did she advise about using brigade sports complex gym for workouts instead of the less than desirable NSAA gym by blue jacket community center where you check in for camping (brigade sports complex is best place to use showers as campground bathhouse is worse shape than showers/bathhouses in Iraq) Blue jacket community center isn't a good place to use computers, watch TV as again, lady at counter isn't friendly and quite rude projecting anger issues like you're stealing by using the blue jacket community center. Exchange food court is much better as well as brigade sports complex. Best is to check in after 5pm so as to avoid the day crowd entirely here, commanders office is across street and you'll avoid them too. When I departed, week and half later on a Friday a charge showed up on my debit card for camping $24 for camping I didn't do, I had bank stop payment when I noticed charge on Sunday, Monday the campground sent an email invoice about the $24 charge so I made a complaint about what a sneaky and unprofessional waste of gov. Time and resources, the mwr director called me which I let go to voicemail and she played the facetious female act like it was an honest mistake, again more insulting lies. if you're navy/marine corp go to the midshipman store at academy, any and everything navy you could ever dream of as far as navy/marine corp logo stuff. Base has a new exchange/commissary which are very nice, lots of nicer gentlemans wear only second to Oceanis in Virginia Beach IMO. There is a commuter bus (Dillion's bus service #220) to natl mall area wash d.c. Weekdays for $5 per person each way 4:30am every half hour till 7:30am to and loads in D.C. 3:30pm till 6:30pm every half hour returning to Annapolis. loads by navy bagels by academy. This is a nice option for natl mall sightseeing visits as well as this camping option is nice for attending Annapolis boat shows in spring and fall or attending navy midshipman sports games/activities. Seemingly there is a pervasive attitude problem base wide, base mafia crowd finds humor in being difficult and giving bad information as well as sabotaging people? Atypical childishness you find in uneducated/impoverished people who entertain bad attitudes & don't know better than to leave economically/socially challenged places to live a better life. Seemingly I believe they're trying to end tent camping as navybed people aren't able to book tent camping, they say all they can book is RV spots?