Oh where to begin.
First of all, this place is awful pretty. The spaces between RV's spots are decently spaced out and the campgrounds are well kept.
The cons wildly outmatch the pros. This is basically on the managers property. There are no rules posted. No receipts given. And certainly no respect to those of who are different. Let me explain.
My husband and I are in a same-sex relationship. We had been relocating to Astoria and we had been moving from site to site to site, from campground to campground to campground, in Warrenton every 2-3 days at this time given that we were their during the height of summer (i.e. tourism) until we could find a home. We were told by my brother-in-law about this place. We thought...great! Turns out the owner allows month-to-month space rentals during the summer. Awesome right!?
About a few days after we arrived the owner asked for some contact information for us. When my husband wrote down my name...he asked if "Ricky was a girl." My partner replied, "No, that's my husband." Effectively ending that conversation rather quickly with the owner and awkwardly.
We are traveling with the two dogs and the owner was aware of this. People seem to have dogs here all the time. Unattended. Barking. However, it seemed like we were singled out for some things that I will list below that involved our dogs.
My mother-in-law came down to visit and and came by the trailer to pick up a few things while we were at work. The dogs were barking for like a minute. My dogs hardly ever bark, but given that it was her vehicle that was parked in our driveway that they didn't recognize...I would say that's typical dog behavior. The wife of the owner decided to scold my mother-in-law stating something along the lines that "they can't behave like that." My mother-in-law explained what she was doing there and why they were barking. However, the owner's wife replied, "I know, I've been watching you." Seriously!? What a weird thing to say. Was she concerned that she was stealing something? Because funny enough no one called us concerned about her being there.
This next incident we will take some responsibility for. We both work in Astoria and our dogs got out of the trailer. I am not sure if I forgot to lock the door, the dogs somehow unlocked the door, or in the worse case scenario someone was trying to get into our trailer and fiddling with the lock (I never leave my doors unlocked). I don't know what happened. The fact is that they got out and I apologized for that when the owner called to alert me and said I would leave work and take care of it as soon as I could (I got there like 20-25 minutes after I had called him back).
However, instead of trying to be sympathetic or understanding at all the owner decides to scold me that the dogs are NEVER to be left unattended even in the trailer by themselves and that he somehow communicated that with us. This guy couldn't give us a consistent rent price for the month...now he saying he told us we couldn't even leave them in the trailer when they have water and the windows are open? I've stayed at KOA, Kampers West, and Fort Stevens. None of them had this policy. I asked him, "well what am I supposed to do what when both of us have to work?" He said quite angrily, "I don't know!".
He left me no choice, but to take my dogs with me in my small Toyota Corolla where they stayed while I worked IN THE MIDDLE OF SUMMER until we finally got to Kampers West. We didn't have another place lined up for a week and we didn't want to get kicked out. Plus, he couldn't care less. I am lucky enough that my employer allowed me for a whole week to take extra breaks so I could give my dogs some water and take them for a walk. We ultimately left a week or so earlier than we had to, because we couldn't stand the stares we were getting or the way we had been treated up until that point. We didn't even ask for a refund. Why bother?
Oh and one last thing...when I am sleeping in the morning I would highly prefer if the owner doesn't blast Rush Limbaugh radio while he's working on his property right outside my travel trailer. I should've known from then on that he was sending us a message. That we weren't welcomed here. read more