As a camper i have stayed in one or more KOA campgrounds. The experience sucked. Jammed between two massive RVs with no access to the services advertised and paying a ridiculous amount of money for the experience, i swore i would never stay in a KOA again.
I am not the only one. My brother and his wife drive a motor home and found that the KOAs are overpriced and under deliver. So when i reached Fillmore, Utah after a long day of driving when the owner Ann encouraged me to come to her campground i was pretty reluctant to accept the suggest as the image and association of high cost and low to no value was stuck in my mind.
The skies were overcast, lightening was booming no more that 5-8 miles away (lightening strike... then count one elephant-two elephant - till the boom hits). For only $5 more than the State park i received my own site that was private, big, roofed picnic table, water tap... apparently known as a super tent site. Value. This works.
So for those of you campers who have ever been turned off by KOA do stop by and stay with Ann and Dick. Great place, great people and a nice way to enjoy a thunder storm.
Whether KOA know it or not, they have done a deep disservice to their owners when their expansion was driven by greed over providing a consistently high level of value to their customers. How many others have given that KOA a walk past because of a past promise not delivered upon?
When companies grow, the principles upon which the growth takes place are effective when grounded in love and compassion aka www.cafegratitude.com KOA have some catching up to do and some radical reputation recovery to compensate owners like Ann and Dick in Fillmore, Utah.
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