Waco RV Resort. This review is for Waco RV Resort located at 211 N. McLennan Dr, Elm Mott, Texas. We were excited to explore Texas and being several states away, I shopped for an RV park on line. Big Mistake! I made our reservations several months in advance over the phone. Yes they could accommodate a 45 foot m/h. Called 2 months out to confirm then confirmed again at 1 month out with an email. We have a 45 foot motorhome and I wanted to make sure they could accommodate our big rig. I had read on the RV forums that RV sites were hard to come by with things finally opening up from Covid-19. I made the HUGE mistake of believing them! I asked again before I paid in full for one full month if their site was big enough for our 45 ft. m/h. Yep! Their employee got in his gift cart to lead us to our site. Everything was big and spacious out front but once you slowly made the 90 degree turn down the gravel road it all changed!! Cars and trucks (on both sides of the road) were parked half way on their space and half way on the narrow road leaving very little room to navigate forward. I moved forward slowly, thinking it HAD to get better. WRONG! I only had inches between the vehicles and the motorhome. I stopped, wanting to back up but looking in my rear view mirror decided it was safer to pull forward where I could better see and judge the road. I had to zip zag to get where I was. Who knew it was only going to get worse! I looked up ahead and saw the employee with the golf cart parked in a site which required a 90 degree turn without enough room on the road to make the turn! To complicate matters the site was VERY narrow with two tall electrical boxes up by the road, one on each side of the site. Fitting between the two electrical boxes was not possible! The employee came over and said, "Don't worry. We can get you in". My heart said it will never happen but I had to try. Their employee had driven truck for 10 years so maybe he knew some tricks! I slowly drove forward, inch by inch, at the employees' instruction only to stop so that he could cut branches to make room for the coach. Obviously NO coach had ever been in this site! After three (3) hours of inching, cutting, inching, more cutting we put a stop to this madness. We had driven for 6 days to get here and things were going badly!
He had a pile of branches he had cut almost as big as a car. No 45 ft. m/h had ever been in that space!!! To add insult to injury, after getting almost 3/4 of the way into the site, we started to sink in the mud!! WHAT IN THE WORLD? I got out and looked at the scanty rock base they used. There was very little of it and it was NOT nearly long enough! The scary part was the passenger side front tire was sinking but the really scary part was the rear passenger tag was sinking into the mud. One tag was near the road but the other was on the site and that was the one sinking badly! It took us 3 hours to get this far. The employee was going to get his tractor and pull us back on the road but needed to talk to the office first. When he came back he said his boss called a wrecker so that the professionals could take care of it. The wrecker came walking in about 30 minutes later. He was trying to find the best way to get his truck in there as the roads were very tight. I told him we "inched" the M/H in, so it would have to be "inched" out. It would take a while. The tow truck driver looked at it, walked around it a few times then said it wasn't too bad. He asked if we were paying for it. I said No, I did not call him, the RV park did. He went back to the office where the manager's mother yelled at him and said there was no way she was paying for it! He came back and said I would have to "fight" with her to pay it. I asked him if he could get us out of the mud. He assured me he could. I told him I would pay him if he could get us out. It would have to be slow and very careful. Bless his heart he hooked the back of the coach up to a boom and a winch with a row of levers and slowly began to inch us out. After he started getting us out, he admitted that he was very nervous. It was more than a tough job! It was next to impossible!!! The tow truck driver was awesome! The BEST! On the other hand the manager's mother was ... well ... let's just say no customer relation skills, no communication skills, no professional ethics with an overloaded angry temper. We got her to agreed to pay 1/2 of the tow bill. We were in a state we did not know, in a town we were completely unfamiliar with and night was coming soon. This whole ordeal took six (6) HOURS!! Six long, stressful, hellish hours. As soon as we were out of the mud and free, we got our monthly fees credited back and immediately left. We could not get OUT of there fast enough! We will NEVER go back.
If you have a light small trailer, do not mind narrow streets, vehicles parked half way on the gravel road, full of big, deep pot holes with very narrow spaces, this may be for you. It's not for us. read more
