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Foothill RV Yuma, AZ
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All of these parks are cheap on a monthly basis.
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For the best places and to be surrounded by the
best people, for all places you travel, seek the privately owned areas.
Don't go to the places that are being sold to you and directly advertised to
you. Always doubt the first thing you see, it just lets you know these
places exist, and there are alternatives. Look around. People that choose
to stay in RV parks are always those people that don't know how to do things
themselves. And there is always a way to do things yourself in America.
These people are the people that generally specialized in one area of life
and profited from it, as can happen. This type of education builds an
arrogance and a need for having, not always, but often. This specialization
often makes them fools in all functional parts of life, but they get nice
and fat. You'll see scowls and cruelty, and often racism, in these parks
without regard for other's states of being, but with only the concern of the
individual in the state of judgment, which as we know, comes from the tyrant
that thinks they are entitled to it because they were there first. Our
worst experience is in:
Fortuna de Oro Yuma,
AZ
Article 1
Foothill Village RV
12705 East Frontage Road
Yuma, AZ 85367 There are a number of RV Parks in Yuma, AZ. My wife and I have stayed at
five so far. Since the options are vast don't park your rig at Foothill
Village RV. We stayed in this park for 3 months through the hot Summer. The
bathrooms were cleaned once, and that only means the ads left on the floor
were picked up, once. The pool area however was kept fairly clean and the
spa was functional, which is rare from park to park, since the high alkali
content of the water shorts out the water heaters frequently. If you care
about your budget I cannot recommend this park. The electric bill fluctuates
greatly and increases dramatically without notice, and it increased greatly
in the hottest month of August. Our bill went from $120 to $220 when we were
trying to reserve electricity and were running the AC less. To reduce
complaints about this practice the park uses a manipulative strategy of
withholding electric bills until space rent is paid and then post dates the
electric bill. By then, patrons are forced to pay the exorbitant fees
because they are stuck there for another month. The park also applies a
"Transient Lodging Tax" to their electric bills, which fluctuated from $8 to
$19. No other park we have stayed in charges this tax, at least not as an
added expense. The laundry room is very sub-par. The three times we tried to
do laundry we wound up in a flood. And we never received a refund for the
coins we paid into the machines that don't work at all, which is more than
half of them. However the soda machine was cold and accurate in delivery of
soda. In conclusion, this park will smile as it takes your money, but look
closely and you'll see their teeth are rotten. This park offers the least
amount of quality to get the most amount of money from you. Good rate in the
summer at $200, but up to $390 in November. Not worth $390. We liked the
camp host and the maintenance man, both very taken advantage of.
2007 RATING: 1 out of 5 stars
Article 2
Blue Sky RV Park
Yuma, AZ
Blue Sky is one of the few parks that allows all ages. The space rent is
well priced during the "on season", from November to March. It is not well
priced in the Summer months, as it is one of the few parks to not lower
rates in the hot months. Like most parks in Yuma the maintenance man is over
worked as is required to do a number of diverse jobs at $8 an hour that
should be done by professionals. This abuse is common in the area. The park
is fairly clean, except the bathrooms which are cleaned infrequently and not
thoroughly. The frequent dust storms cover the pool area with a layer of
sand that had not been cleaned in the time we stayed there. The plant life
is well maintained and you will meet a diverse group of people. My favorite
thing about this park is the wildlife, as it sits next to a large empty lot.
Every morning and evening a wide variety of creatures sneak over in search
of food. We saw several bunnies, a large array of birds and of course the
tiny adorable rodents that live in the mounds of earth nearby that come to
feast on the berries that fall from the trees. Bird feeders and bread snacks
serve the wildlife well and bring them nicely into view. However, once a
month and during check-in you'll have to deal with the rude, often
apathetic, office staff. The niceness of this park is largely circumstantial
and not really from effort. The monthly rate for our 27' rig is $277.
2007 RATING: 2 out of 5 stars
Article 3
River RV Park
Yuma, AZ
River RV Park is the most inexpensive park we've found in the Yuma area.
(Now $175, up from $150) The area is nice. It is on the Colorado River and
is surrounded by fields. There is boat access and fishing. The spaces are
large and it is well treed. Just behind it is a date farm and to the west is
a celery field. If you want fresh fruits and vegetables you don't have to
drive far to find a vendor. This parks rate have increased in the past year,
but are still very low. However, you get what you pay for. The laundry room
contains one washer and one dryer. There may be one person on staff. And the
full timers in the park will bring back memories of the movie Deliverance.
Drug use and midnight yelling are common. It was no place for a writer and
his wife. You also must travel in to the park on a five mile long, very
wash-boardy road, which gives a hefty beating to your vehicle. The dirt road
ends at the local Indian casino, that offers little if you have ever been to
Vegas, or even Reno or Laughlin, or to a backyard poker game. All and all
the park is in the right place, but with the wrong people. I also don't
recommend swimming in the murky river, based on the smell and rash that can
cover your body.
2005-2006 RATING: 1.5 out of 5
Article 4
KOA
Needles, CA
Two years ago this was a great park. Ran by a beautiful British couple
that systematically and kindly carried out their various duties. It even had
the rarest of all camping experiences, regularly cleaned bathrooms. But...it
is now managed by a new person. The common attitude of non-caring sloth is
seen here too. The park is fairly inexpensive for a KOA though. And the
facilities are nice. The wildlife is abundant and the park is normally very
quiet and low key. There is a restaurant on site that is open during the
winter months. The food often smells good from this place, but there is
cheaper food in town. We like a the mini-chain Roberto's. The pool is not
heated and very hard to take in the winter months. We swan at the Best
Western for $30 dollars a month. But the Best Western was very very dirty
and led to a female bladder infection which led us to the Needle's ER, which
was 100% occupied by cardiac patients. And of course the Best Western's spa
was shorted out the entire time. All and all we enjoyed our first stay two
years ago, and stayed for five months. But our second stay led us to leave
after one. The rates also no longer fluctuate per season. Always the highest
rate now. Around $270.
2005 rating 4.5 out of 5 stars
2007 rating 1.5 out of 5 stars
Article 5
Fortuna de Oro Yuma, AZ
Our Experience provoked this letter to address the gross discrimination
and prejudice we received from this company by our direct experience.
I request that all funds be refunded to me for pool
membership based on the abuse that I received at your facility, because my
Civil Rights were grossly taken from me. Prior to the lawsuit, I am offering
Fortuna de Oro the opportunity to refund my pool fee. I have not been to
swim since 9-24, my membership was good until October 31, 2008. You may send
a check to the address above for, no less than, $37. However, this does not
cover the damage to my Civil Rights. I have sought legal council and the
ACLU defines my case of merit. I hope that you apply a fitting recourse to
the primary employee in question, hopefully equal to the inconvenience that
I will be providing you. You may reply to this notification, which will be
forwarded to my legal council at the address above. I do not feel safe
providing my local Yuma address, based on the violent maliciousness I have
encountered on your property. I hope we can settle this injustice without
judicial and media involvement.
On 9-24 I became the abused victim of age discrimination.
For some time the town of Yuma, AZ has discriminated against youth with 55+
RV parks. One of these parks Fortuna de Oro offers a pool membership to
people under the age of 55. I paid for this membership. On five separate
occasions I was viciously stalked and harassed by the elderly because of my
young appearance. No other aged person experienced this. I was yelled at for
my name my place of work and my living address. This persecution is common
and must be stopped. On the fifth occasion as I was demanded to produce
documents verifying that I had paid to swim there I had had enough. My car
and belongings had been searched to often. I was yelled at and abused, and
my payment had given me the right to swim at the pool. I at least want the
cost of the membership back since I was harassed out of being able to use
it, however, greater restitution is warranted so it can be understood that
any discrimination based on a person's appearance is wrong. The most
previous incident was from a woman named Julie, possibly Julia, who
identified herself as working in the office. For me not to pursue legal
action I want notification of her termination.
Exact occurrence: I had held a previous membership in
July. I was harassed several times during that time of swimming as well.
However, come September, my health from muscle deterioration required that I
renew my membership. Harassment began immediately from the elderly, starring
and questioning. I could feel a looming air of discrimination, so I decided
to start bringing a witness with me. On 9-24 I encountered a person, later
identified at my request as ***** from the office. The first day I
encountered her, her and her husband noticed me arriving at the pool. They
parked in the middle of the street and watched me shower through the bushes,
as if they were waiting for any type of violation. Never taking her eyes off
me, her and her husband circled the park three times, stopping occasionally
to stare for several minutes. They then searched the exterior of my car,
they looked at the pool pass I had in the window. I saw them verify the
membership on that day. I believe they wrote down my license plate number.
Not yet being accosted I finished my swim and returned the following day, as
my membership is good until Oct. 31, 2008. And Julie and her husband showed
back up with the same behavior. This time, without looking at my car again,
she enters the pool area. Continually staring at me, I don't know how she
walked this way. Never stopping the accusing staring. She forcefully
demanded information from me. My name, do I have a membership, where am I
from, very degradingly, as if she believed something about me was inherently
wrong, which could only be based on my appearance. She finally asked, "Is
your pool pass on your car!" I said "yes." She said, "I'm going to go look
at it right now then." This behavior was very out of the ordinary towards
anyone else. I had been to the pool several times, and only seen
discriminating, altering, behavior towards me, the only young person. She
viciously sought me out with anger, expecting that I should not be there. I
was forcibly denied my right to swim, that my prepaid membership gave me,
because of discrimination due to my youthful appearance, when she returned
from my car (searched now for the second time by her) and she told me that
my membership is only good for one person and that I had to leave, because I
was forced, by her, to bring a witness. Her hatred and mindset of
discrimination deliberately sought out any way to get me out of there and
make her onslaught right. My Civil Rights have been denied by this act of
age discrimination and I will seek further action.
--It's too bad the people were rotten. The pool was nice. Well, one
was, the other was filthy.
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