Series: Good Sam RV Travel Guide & Campground Directory
Paperback: 1994 pages
Publisher: Good Sam; 81st Edition edition (December 7, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1937321355
ISBN-13: 978-1937321352
Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 2.4 x 10.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (75 customer reviews)
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We have used this guide in the past and have learned how to use their rating system. For us, the more stars seems to be an alert to playgrounds, pools and other amenities that we are not seeking. We would like a guide that is centered on scenery, quiet, cleanliness and space between campsites and perhaps water and electric. Very often, fewer stars "reads" serenity" for us. We travel without children.
We were quite surprised how quickly the guide arrived, given its considerable size (A4) and weight (about 0.75 Kg). The guide itself is extensive, and covers every State in the USA. It has full listings for almost every National Park and Privately Owner camp ground, but sometimes the details are sketchy. Think of it like a UK Yellow Pages....if advertisers pay enough money, they get massive adverts about their camp ground, but that often prevents you from easily seeing the other listings. The rating system is not obvious, but once you have read the 'key' and worked out what each number means, it does then provide a measure of what each camp site has to offer. About one third of the guide is adverts, so that is a shame as transport costs to the UK would have been greatly reduced if the guide was smaller and lighter without them.Overall we didn't use the private camp grounds as the information was not set out logically - i.e suggested 'routes' to follow with appropriate camp sites suggested at intervals along the way. Maps are inserted but they are not really suitable for navigation, and the book would be too big to wield anyway. We book 95% of our sites through the KOA (Kampgrounds Of America) site! By the time you have bought a Good Sam loyalty card, the savings weren't even that good at the camp sites!!
We are new motorhome buyers and felt completely at sea with all of the possibilities, planning, accessing resources. Even with the Internet - too much information is about as much help as too little information. It's so much easier to flip to a page with a city on it and see all of the campgrounds nearby. We've used the guide to plan our first roadtrip: from Northern Canada to Disneyworld and back!
Very well done! Anniversary issue so there is a lot of stuff. Organized by state, popular destination areas then all cities. Finding your desired destination has been easy. But finding interesting waypoints has been difficult...until now. I'll use this book along with "RoadTripper" to plan out our longer journeys.
Very helpful and definitely worth the price. Lots of info on many RV parks. Rating system is useful and seems accurate (we're new to RVing and we're still learning). This is an excellent supplement to finding a good park after learning about the destination and how close/far activities, restaurants, etc, are located. The book is the size of a very large phone book printed on phone-book type paper, just like the "old days". There is a lot of good info in the front of the book that is useful for new RVers, probably too basic for experienced folks.
My Dad lives by this guide and asked for an updated one this year. I was happy to have an idea for the hard to buy for 70 year old who likes to read up and know where he can get a deal on his travels.
I actually returned this book. While it might be chock-full of information it is physically huge, like a great big phone book. We did not need such a huge gigantic guide for the whole country. Perhaps dividing this into regional guides would be nice.
This book isn't as good as it used to be. Too many ads. It appears that only paid advertised campgrounds get into the book. I downloaded an app...All Stays and it is much more thorough. I won't need this book anymore and won't buy another. Been buying these books for years. A little advertising is ok, but hundreds of pages of full ads and none of them are in areas I will ever travel. And, we put about 20,000 miles a year on our RV.
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