Reserve America and CA YUCK!!!

[wavery]

Hey Jumping on this bandwagon too!! RA  STINKS!!!!!


I spent 4hours calling on 2 phones starting at 8 am to reserve 2 sites for doheny beach and by the time i got thru they were on oppisite ends of the campground.....


in the old days ..you made the reservations 6 months in advance but it went by the date of stay..so if you wanted to stay the 13th-15th of the month you couldn't call until the 13th....this helped spread out the calls a bit...that way you don't have the entire State of California calling on one day..maybe they only pay for staff one day a month


so for those wanting to camp in Aug. plan on being on the phone Wed. Feb 1st

I agree that the "one-day-a-month" policy doesn't seem very logical. It seems to me that it would be to their best advantage to spread the calls out over the month.

Maybe we should get together and start bombarding them with emails requesting that they change that policy.

I also sat on the phone on the 1st of Dec to get 2 spots on the beach at Doheny for May 4,5,6 &7. I ended up with 1 on the beach and one on the other side of the park. I did the work so I get the one on the beach. Maybe my brother will volunteer next time :p .

[OC Campers]

Hey Jumping on this bandwagon too!! RA STINKS!!!!!
 
 
I spent 4hours calling on 2 phones starting at 8 am to reserve 2 sites for doheny beach and by the time i got thru they were on oppisite ends of the campground.....
 
 
in the old days ..you made the reservations 6 months in advance but it went by the date of stay..so if you wanted to stay the 13th-15th of the month you couldn't call until the 13th....this helped spread out the calls a bit...that way you don't have the entire State of California calling on one day..maybe they only pay for staff one day a month
 
 
so for those wanting to camp in Aug. plan on being on the phone Wed. Feb 1st

Unfortunately, the phone lines open up at 7am.  I also wonder if those sites are available on-line at 12am on the 1st of every month.  This means if you are a few minutes late forget getting a site.
 
Jacqui

[azmondays]

My dear DW spent an hour this A.M. trying to get through to Reserve America every site on coast of mid and northern California for June that we looked into is gone. (Those that participate in reserve america... most!) Some other way has to be done. I do not know what it is.
now looking private and county parks

December 1 was the date to try to book June campsites.  As others have said, the sites on the beach book up the first hour.  We were lucky enough to get two beachside sites at So. Carlsbad over July 4th -- by starting our first day June 30 we were able to book the trip on Dec. 1 instead of January 1.