hey y'all we're Jimmy and Lisa with Find Us Camping and in today's tuesday talks
for rv'ers we're going to kind of discuss to you guys with you guys about
the difficulty of finding campsites so i don't have problems finding campsites because
i'm usually the guy that does it driving somebody else does all the the whole schedule so
she sets it all up and says we're leaving tomorrow and i say
okay where are we going and she'll say ah it's only 100 mile drive or
15 hours i've never scheduled 15 hours but never 15 hours i don't think so okay
a lot of people lately have been saying that they're having a hard time
finding places to stay and that is true to a degree well because camping has increased like rv
sales are up 500 percent or something crazy like that so of course there's more of us out there
there's not a whole lot more sites than there were before we're camping right now it's what is today
when today's tuesday uh tuesday talks this place is pretty much packed um there's not many open
sites there's a couple of ten seconds ten sites left open and there's a couple rv sites but i
know this coming weekend they're completely booked so there is a game you can play and somebody knows
the game pretty well pretty fluent in the game so number one and what i always try to do is
book early as soon as you know you want to go book book then because the earlier you book the better
your chances are that makes sense but we always have those you know the instance is always going
to pop up that you're like oh something changed we can go camping this weekend and it's tuesday
and then you're trying to get in this weekend and your chances are slim um it's not a holiday
weekend your chances might be better but even if it's a holiday weekend here's the trick guys
we're gonna fill you in a couple of our secrets so this is gonna make it harder now for us to find
spots because we're letting you know how she does it so of course step one is always book early but
if that fails and you're trying to get in most parks nowadays you can book online so
if you try to book online and it comes back that the dates aren't available
call the park i know in this busy time nobody has time to get on the phone everybody everyone wants
to get their phone and do everything online i'm all about that but and and then of course when
you call the park you have to call within business hours because they're not open at eight o'clock
when you're trying to make your reservations so you're gonna have to call tomorrow but there's
always a good chance that you're trying to book the weekend and let's say you're even trying to
do a long weekend like a thursday to sunday maybe thursday and friday are available saturday's not
most of the online bookings aren't going to tell you that some of them will they'll say
are your dates flexible and if so it'll show you what's available and if that's the case then maybe
you can you know change your dates a little bit she has found out when you call the park we've
been told by a couple a couple of different parks that they hold they pull back a few hold a couple
spots there that the online thing is not going to tell you so when she calls in there and says hey
do you have a spot and they said yeah we have one we can fit you in that's what they say she says
well i didn't say it online and she said we hold a couple spots for this reason so that has helped us
a couple so don't be afraid to call the park and then here's so number one book early number two
don't be afraid to call the park directly number three don't be afraid to keep calling the park
every day so you say you feel like i did it first i feel like it's an inconvenience to me and that
i'm being a pain in the butt to them by calling back every day but then more and more parks have
told me don't worry about that call back because people are cancelling all the time if the weather
doesn't look great people are going to cancel right so you have a better chance of getting older
you know just like your plans changed and now you can go this weekend when before you couldn't other
people plan to go this weekend and things come up and they have to cancel last minute so multiple
parks have now told me call back tomorrow and so what i'll do is if we're trying to go we usually
go longer stays but if we were trying to do a long weekend like thursday to sunday i'll call
the park and if they say i'll get you on thursday and friday i said go ahead and give me that
and i'll call back tomorrow and say hey do you have any cancellations for saturday that i could
extend my reservation or maybe friday saturday is available and thursday's not same thing
go ahead and book what they have and most parks will tell you keep calling back every day because
people cancel people cancel last minute people cancel a week out
and worst case scenario instead of staying three nights you only get to stay two
but there's a pretty good chance if you just keep calling persistence pays off we did have
a park tell us the other day it is kind of a pain in the butt but we were able to get in three days
we had to be out one day and then we can come back in four or five more days after that so we asked
what we can do and they said if you really want to you can unhook and just boondock for the day yeah
and then you can come back so it's kind of a pain in the butt but at least you got a sight you
didn't have to move so we were going to do that we were going to boondock for that one day that
we couldn't get it and end up opened up we didn't have to move anyway so so what she told me was
i said do you have a site like a tent site or even a site just like beside the office or something
in a field or whatever that we could park in for that one day and she said sure most people
don't like to do that though so i don't offer it and i said i mean i don't really want to do it
but i also don't want to drive two hours to camp four days and then back home and then back up if
i'm gonna do that i'll just cancel part of my trip and she's like no no we can schedule that
and then if we have a cancellation we'll just move you there and by the time our trip was scheduled
we had to we had a cancellation and we filled it in so i guess those are my three rules
book early call the park directly and keep calling the park to fill in your stadium
and they'll they don't mind i mean yeah maybe it's a pain in the butt but they all tell me we
don't mind keep calling because there's always cancellations and there's a pretty good chance
that you can you know we'll get you fit in so those are my tips during this busy busy rv time
in trying to reserve does anybody else have any other tips that we can use that
you guys use that can help us get in some spots do you have because if there's other tricks out
there i'm all about learning them because so far as many places as i can so far she has gotten
gotten us in everywhere we needed to go so we've made it pretty good i don't know if you guys saw a
video a long time ago where somebody had us pack up early in the middle of the winter and we got
to florida a day early and we had nowhere to go and that was in prime time florida but guess what
she found us a spot so and we had a reservation how's that i walked away from a reservation and
then i was stuck but i managed to get us a spot that night same day it is able to be done you just
have to know how to work the game play the game and persistence is key persistence pays off be
patient and just keep calling because chances are you're going to get in we actually one last tidbit
we actually had friends that didn't have a site booked for memorial day weekend and they were kind
of scurrying around thinking they might have to do a harvest host here and there um to fill in and
called the campground and they'd had a last minute cancellation so they got in like the week before
memorial day they got in for memorial day weekend so it is possible um just be persistent and
there's a pretty good chance you'll get in so as always we hope you guys are enjoying these videos
we're having fun making them helping everybody out as much as we possibly can help everybody
so if you're enjoying them make sure you give us a thumbs up subscribe ring the bell do all
the stuff you're supposed to do so you won't so you'll be notified when we release the next video
until the next time you guys find us camping safe travels y'all