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You can get a Resort Membership for as little as $400 with $129/yr then C2C is only $89 or $199 . The reason to upgrade C2C is the daily rate is them $0!
@@xkatanaswordx First you join a Coast to Coast associated RV resort. That ranges from $400 down and $129/yr maint (Wind River View, Wy) to $49,000 to joinand $800/yr (Blue Green). Then CtoC costs $89/yr to start. That give your access to campgrounds with full hookups across the country for $10/night for up to two weeks. We have a premier RV resort membership and it came in the middle of those two. We also have a Premier Coast to Coast membership for $199/yr. The we pay $0 per night at member parks.
You would never include Encore when talking about Thousand Trails when comparing it to another package, because Encore resorts are NOT included with Thousand Trails memberships (they are only available as a paid add-on). I don't thin comparing Coast to Coast to Thousand Trails is an apples-to-apples comparison. You would have to have a very specific use case in order for Coast-to-Coast to be a better offering than Thousand Trails. A better comparison would be Coast-to-Coast vs. The Trails Collection or The Trails Collection Plus. But if you want a true apples-to-apples comparison you would need to have a Coast-to-Coast vs RPI (Resort Properties International) video. I think a video that is less 'sales' and more 'nuts-n-bolts reality' of these offerings might be a big winner. For example, when you were going through the reservation system in your examples there was a park with a lot of X's in the date listings. What a lot of people don't realize, before they buy into these reciprocal systems, is that a Coast-to-Coast or RPI park might have, say, 400 sites... but only FOUR (4) of them are available for the $10/night reciprocal program. It could be more... it could be less. I've stayed in a LOT of parks that claimed to be 100% full (for Coast-to-Coast or RPI users)... but when you looked around the park it looked like a ghost town. Even if they have a hundred empty sites they're only going to allow Coast-to-Coast or RPI members into those FOUR sites (or whatever number of sites they've set aside). And also keep in mind that those four sites (or however many) might also be available to OTHER reciprocal programs... like Passport America and other discount programs. And that's just what they have "on paper"... when you look at the reality of human nature (and greed) you'll find that it's near impossible to get any sales representative to give you a sheet of paper that details EXACTLY HOW MANY sites there are available per park towards these programs. This is because they don't want to have a paper trail -- an "audit" if you will. And by that, I mean... the park managers can, at their own discretion, use those "reciprocal sites" for anything they want. Maybe the park is getting full... so they decide they'd rather make a lot of money off those reciprocal sites instead of giving them up for half rate or $10 a night. Many park managers will keep the agreement they made... but many will not, and will simply sell out those sites to higher paying customers and mark them as "not available" in the reciprocal directories. You and I will never know... and Good Sam will likely never know (since they don't know HOW the sites are getting used, they only know if the park says they're available, or not). Also -- with many of these programs that $10 a night has a little asterisk next to it. It could be $10 per night... PLUS "resort fees" -- meaning that some parks can charge a "resort fee" on top of the $10 a night. How much is that? It could be another $10 a night... sometimes another $20. Sometimes there is no additional fee at all. It's kind of up in the air. And don't forget about the "Kid Tax"... especially with Coast-to-Coast parks. If you're just a couple traveling... you're probably not going to notice. But for a family, you might need to pay attention to the fine print. In the terms and conditions of Coast-to-Coast (even on the website, in good-sized type) it clearly states that memberships only allow for UP TO FOUR PEOPLE -- Two Adults and Two Children. If you have guests, or more than two children... expect to PAY, or possibly not even be able to get into the park using your discount (you can always get into the park if you pay retail cash -- funny how that works, isn't it?). RPI doesn't have this limitation, but it does allow for more parks to have "resort fees". In any event -- Thousand Trails, RPI, Coast-to-Coast, The Trails Collection, Ready! Camp! Go!, Passport America, and other programs like these are totally worth it (at least, for us and how we full-time travel with 4 children in a Class A motorcoach) -- so I'm not trying to discourage anyone here, just trying to add some transparency so that someone doesn't get angry when they later find out it's not all roses. :)
So tell me how did you get that membership for 1000.00??? I called coast to coast and they are interested on how you got it also. They said they will be checking into it.
We purchased a grand fathered 21 day stay membership from a private party for the local affilaite campground and upgraded their membership that inclided Coast to Coast Premiere and allows us 21 days stays at premeire parks during off season, and 14 day stays at deluxe and peak seasons all for FREE! And our park gave us 10 "free" condo stays for upgrading! The condo stays arent completely free, its a $200 fee to transfer the coupon to points for an up to $499 condo. But still, is dirty cheap savings on a nice condo stay for 7 days. This is quite pricey but is a great deal over time for those who camp ALOT it pays for its self in a a few years. And the membership can be sold and transfered or handed down to our childern.
My dad signed up in 1985!! But for a dollar a night! it went down to generation's of his kids for the same deal!! The fact they are still doing great work makes me happy!
Dumped my TT this yr. noticed a 79 dollar charge was told a maintenance fee. Then 4 mo later after a continual monthly 79 charge was told it was auto renewal. Yet their contract stated they would notify us 45 days prior. They were quoting auto renewal per their contract. Of course they were closed almost a yr. They charged the 79/ month even though they weren't "available" to take campers!! I got so mad between being lied to 1st month, then them quoting contract. I'll never work with TT again!
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We have belonged to Coast to Coast membership since 1/17/20. Our home park is Emerald Cove in Earp, CA which is part of the Colorado River Adventures. Our membership has paid for itself twice now. Many of the parks we have paid no fee at all, and some cost anywhere from $2-10/nt and sometimes only charge for 50amp. So happy with Coast2Coast.
The cost depends on what you want to have as a home park. We paid $$6000 life time membership for our outdoor adventures in Michigan but we can stay at all their 7 campground through Michigan and Ohio for free. Then $150 per year for coast to coast
Also look into the used memberships we didn’t know those existed until I started watching you tube had we known those existed we would not have paid $6000 for our t membership
@@confabulouscruisers Each Home park has their own costs. We belong to Colorado River Adventures (CRA) which has 9 parks between CA and AZ and costed $9000 and gave 1 year free of Coast to Coast. In honesty, If I knew what I know now, I would have chosen another park that is less expensive. It paid for itself in the first year of being full time. I still have to pay annual fee to CRA of $495 and $500 to Coast2Coast. Since CRA has 9 parks, we picked the park where we learned about it. Our home park is Emerald Cove right on the Colorado River.
I was ready to sign up for a coast to coast membership, but was rudely excused from a membership meeting. The manager giving the presentation was not only rude, but possibly had a mental breakdown. He not only said he wouldn't be disciplined by corporate, but said C to C promotes ppl like him. This is all documented. Yes, I did contact C to C, and they did apologize for our experience. We will NEVER have anything to do with C to C, and yes, we did buy a TT membership. I guess it's all what you experience.
We purchased a Coast to Coast Premier membership in July 2019 along with RPI and have used them almost exclusively. Our membership was much more than $1000 but our stays are free in most resorts. We can stay up to 21 days at no charge in the premier resorts. It has paid for itself many times over. Not all the parks are great, there are some that are very tight and not real desirable. We just roll with it. Off season we can stay at the same park unlimited times but if we stay more than a week at a park we have to be out of the coast to coast network for a week. We also have the RPI membership so we will stay at an RPI for a week at 10 a night. The park we are staying at now is a Deluxe and we have been here since March because it is both RPI and Coast to Coast and it is currently their "off season". We stay 2 weeks free than pay 70 for the following week and so on. It is not for everyone but works for us and has saved us a boat load of money. It paid for itself within the first year.
Interesting option. We’ve heard of it in our four years of full timing but never looked into it much. Thank you for the information we’ll have to check it out
Thanks Tom! I’m from Minnesota as well. North of the cities, Forest Lake area. We were at Wild River State park just last weekend. The next time out will be at Lambs on the North shore. I’ll have to check out Coast to Coast.
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Looks like you can't buy a membership directly, you have to purchase a partner membership and then during that process you have the option of adding on the Coast to Coast membership...that's how I understand it from a first look, is this about right? From the Coast to Coast website, "In order to be eligible for membership in Coast to Coast, you must first become a member of one of our network resorts. Coast memberships are not available to the general public at any cost, but instead are offered to you by one of our participating resorts at the time of your resort membership purchase." So just another hidden cost to be aware of, still looks like the partner parks are nice enough. What's great is it fills in the midwest "hole" that Thousand Trails has...
Contact Kimberly with your membership questions, enjoythejourney.life/TT or 800-272-0401 (mention Tom Kenemore if you call in) Get $100 off a Thousand Trails camping pass! Contact Aaron Aaron_Massa@equitylifestyle.com or 360-489-4407 RV MEMBERSHIP VIDEOS enjoythejourney.life/TTvideos Coast to Coast FAQ www.coastresorts.com/faq.cfm
Here’s what they offer in Canada (1st # is C2C/ 2nd # is Good Neighbors Parks) AB: 2/4 BC: 2/6 MB: 0/4 NB: 0/6 N&L: 0/1 NS: 0/6 ON: 0/34 PE: 0/3 QC: 1/5 SK: 0/2 So only 5 C2C and 71 GNP in Canada. You also need to know that for the GNP, you need to phone the park directly, you can’t book through the C2C website and they often offer discounts only during their low season!
Contact Kimberly with your membership questions, enjoythejourney.life/TT or 800-272-0401 (mention Tom Kenemore if you call in) Get $100 off a Thousand Trails camping pass! Contact Aaron Aaron_Massa@equitylifestyle.com or 360-489-4407 RV MEMBERSHIP VIDEOS enjoythejourney.life/TTvideos Coast to Coast FAQ www.coastresorts.com/faq.cfm
interesting, dumped my coast to coast membership many years ago. Not enough sites and usually in very remote locations. Yearly fees were high back in the day
I have a completely unrelated question for you hopefully someone can help me. My husband and I just bought a 20/20 keystone fuzion 373 toy hauler. It looks pretty identical to yours so it has two bathrooms. Do I need two separate hoses for water?
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I belong to coast to coast about 20 + years ago. I rarely found resort close to freeways I was traveling. Also impossible to get a stay in snowbird country . I was just told by KN resorts they wanted 10,000 $ for a membership. I don't trust them
Great to see an (other) alternative to TT. While I plan to boondock/dry camp/moochdock most of the time, this is a good alternative at a good price (once you get past the initial fee). Thanks for sharing Tom!!!
We used my in-laws Coast to Coast membership for a couple of vacations back in the 90s. It was a time-share back then. We stayed in campgrounds in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona. The one in Colorado was the only place (back then) that wasn't crap. Most had just changed hands and were run down from years of disuse. Maybe we hit all the bad ones. Anyway, it looks like some of them are nice now.
Interesting. We will look into this membership. We went full time RV Living almost 2 months ago and are looking for another membership since like you said, Thousand Trails mostly covers the coasts, but nothing much further inland. We currently have Thousand Trails and Harvest Host memberships. Thanks for the heads up!
We stay at national forest campgrounds with a access pass we pay usually $10 a night and some BLM sites can be as little as $1 a night. Some are free. We are in a free site now. We never need hookups .
Great information. Thank you so much for sharing. I hope they offer you something for giving all of us this valuable information. Thank you for sharing. You are helping the rv community grow.
My family has had C2C since the 90s. They used to have a big book full of campgrounds all over the US. We’d go from FL to CA to Maine for vacations. I remember one resort in KS had a roller skating rink! They have horseback riding at some resorts too.
In the early 90s we had a CC membership that came with our K/M membership. They were $1 a night then and you were limited to the number of nights and day of week. We cancelled them.
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There are 1600 C2C resorts!
You can get a Resort Membership for as little as $400 with $129/yr then C2C is only $89 or $199 . The reason to upgrade C2C is the daily rate is them $0!
From where can you get it that low and what's the details on what is included.
@@xkatanaswordx First you join a Coast to Coast associated RV resort. That ranges from $400 down and $129/yr maint (Wind River View, Wy) to $49,000 to joinand $800/yr (Blue Green). Then CtoC costs $89/yr to start. That give your access to campgrounds with full hookups across the country for $10/night for up to two weeks. We have a premier RV resort membership and it came in the middle of those two. We also have a Premier Coast to Coast membership for $199/yr. The we pay $0 per night at member parks.
Any camps in DeKalb Illinois?
Are you still using CC? Do you know how many times a year you're using it? Great video and info!
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You would never include Encore when talking about Thousand Trails when comparing it to another package, because Encore resorts are NOT included with Thousand Trails memberships (they are only available as a paid add-on). I don't thin comparing Coast to Coast to Thousand Trails is an apples-to-apples comparison. You would have to have a very specific use case in order for Coast-to-Coast to be a better offering than Thousand Trails. A better comparison would be Coast-to-Coast vs. The Trails Collection or The Trails Collection Plus. But if you want a true apples-to-apples comparison you would need to have a Coast-to-Coast vs RPI (Resort Properties International) video. I think a video that is less 'sales' and more 'nuts-n-bolts reality' of these offerings might be a big winner. For example, when you were going through the reservation system in your examples there was a park with a lot of X's in the date listings. What a lot of people don't realize, before they buy into these reciprocal systems, is that a Coast-to-Coast or RPI park might have, say, 400 sites... but only FOUR (4) of them are available for the $10/night reciprocal program. It could be more... it could be less. I've stayed in a LOT of parks that claimed to be 100% full (for Coast-to-Coast or RPI users)... but when you looked around the park it looked like a ghost town. Even if they have a hundred empty sites they're only going to allow Coast-to-Coast or RPI members into those FOUR sites (or whatever number of sites they've set aside). And also keep in mind that those four sites (or however many) might also be available to OTHER reciprocal programs... like Passport America and other discount programs. And that's just what they have "on paper"... when you look at the reality of human nature (and greed) you'll find that it's near impossible to get any sales representative to give you a sheet of paper that details EXACTLY HOW MANY sites there are available per park towards these programs. This is because they don't want to have a paper trail -- an "audit" if you will. And by that, I mean... the park managers can, at their own discretion, use those "reciprocal sites" for anything they want. Maybe the park is getting full... so they decide they'd rather make a lot of money off those reciprocal sites instead of giving them up for half rate or $10 a night. Many park managers will keep the agreement they made... but many will not, and will simply sell out those sites to higher paying customers and mark them as "not available" in the reciprocal directories. You and I will never know... and Good Sam will likely never know (since they don't know HOW the sites are getting used, they only know if the park says they're available, or not). Also -- with many of these programs that $10 a night has a little asterisk next to it. It could be $10 per night... PLUS "resort fees" -- meaning that some parks can charge a "resort fee" on top of the $10 a night. How much is that? It could be another $10 a night... sometimes another $20. Sometimes there is no additional fee at all. It's kind of up in the air. And don't forget about the "Kid Tax"... especially with Coast-to-Coast parks. If you're just a couple traveling... you're probably not going to notice. But for a family, you might need to pay attention to the fine print. In the terms and conditions of Coast-to-Coast (even on the website, in good-sized type) it clearly states that memberships only allow for UP TO FOUR PEOPLE -- Two Adults and Two Children. If you have guests, or more than two children... expect to PAY, or possibly not even be able to get into the park using your discount (you can always get into the park if you pay retail cash -- funny how that works, isn't it?). RPI doesn't have this limitation, but it does allow for more parks to have "resort fees". In any event -- Thousand Trails, RPI, Coast-to-Coast, The Trails Collection, Ready! Camp! Go!, Passport America, and other programs like these are totally worth it (at least, for us and how we full-time travel with 4 children in a Class A motorcoach) -- so I'm not trying to discourage anyone here, just trying to add some transparency so that someone doesn't get angry when they later find out it's not all roses. :)
Thanks for the great tips
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So tell me how did you get that membership for 1000.00??? I called coast to coast and they are interested on how you got it also. They said they will be checking into it.
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Uh ! Crazy hands .
So how do you get more points when you run out? For coast to coast. Seems like there will be more money to have to pay somewhere?
Thanks for the info.
How to get the lifetime membership?
We purchased a grand fathered 21 day stay membership from a private party for the local affilaite campground and upgraded their membership that inclided Coast to Coast Premiere and allows us 21 days stays at premeire parks during off season, and 14 day stays at deluxe and peak seasons all for FREE! And our park gave us 10 "free" condo stays for upgrading! The condo stays arent completely free, its a $200 fee to transfer the coupon to points for an up to $499 condo. But still, is dirty cheap savings on a nice condo stay for 7 days. This is quite pricey but is a great deal over time for those who camp ALOT it pays for its self in a a few years. And the membership can be sold and transfered or handed down to our childern.
My dad signed up in 1985!! But for a dollar a night! it went down to generation's of his kids for the same deal!! The fact they are still doing great work makes me happy!
Wow im from.SC TOO
Dumped my TT this yr. noticed a 79 dollar charge was told a maintenance fee. Then 4 mo later after a continual monthly 79 charge was told it was auto renewal. Yet their contract stated they would notify us 45 days prior. They were quoting auto renewal per their contract. Of course they were closed almost a yr. They charged the 79/ month even though they weren't "available" to take campers!! I got so mad between being lied to 1st month, then them quoting contract. I'll never work with TT again!
That is CRAZY $$$$$
Educational! Thank you, Tom.
Good information! Thanks.
Great info! Welcome home. What an exciting reason to be there.
Yes! Thank you!
Thank you for the info. Please try to limit your hand movements. Very distracting. Keep on enjoying!
Sue Rop. I concur !
Wow ! 😂 Don't like Enthusiam ?
Go watch someone BoRiNg.
-Or like Me, I can't Talk with OUT moving my hands, feet, head...basically ..I Dance thru life & am often Misunderstood. That's o.K. ✌️❤️😀
We have belonged to Coast to Coast membership since 1/17/20. Our home park is Emerald Cove in Earp, CA which is part of the Colorado River Adventures. Our membership has paid for itself twice now. Many of the parks we have paid no fee at all, and some cost anywhere from $2-10/nt and sometimes only charge for 50amp. So happy with Coast2Coast.
How much does the membership cost? What is a home oark?
The cost depends on what you want to have as a home park. We paid $$6000 life time membership for our outdoor adventures in Michigan but we can stay at all their 7 campground through Michigan and Ohio for free. Then $150 per year for coast to coast
@@theresatom4807 Thank you, a ballpark figure is what I was looking for. Seems like it might be good to have both Thousand Trails and this one.
Also look into the used memberships we didn’t know those existed until I started watching you tube had we known those existed we would not have paid $6000 for our t membership
@@confabulouscruisers Each Home park has their own costs. We belong to Colorado River Adventures (CRA) which has 9 parks between CA and AZ and costed $9000 and gave 1 year free of Coast to Coast. In honesty, If I knew what I know now, I would have chosen another park that is less expensive. It paid for itself in the first year of being full time. I still have to pay annual fee to CRA of $495 and $500 to Coast2Coast. Since CRA has 9 parks, we picked the park where we learned about it. Our home park is Emerald Cove right on the Colorado River.
I was ready to sign up for a coast to coast membership, but was rudely excused from a membership meeting. The manager giving the presentation was not only rude, but possibly had a mental breakdown. He not only said he wouldn't be disciplined by corporate, but said C to C promotes ppl like him. This is all documented. Yes, I did contact C to C, and they did apologize for our experience. We will NEVER have anything to do with C to C, and yes, we did buy a TT membership. I guess it's all what you experience.
We purchased a Coast to Coast Premier membership in July 2019 along with RPI and have used them almost exclusively. Our membership was much more than $1000 but our stays are free in most resorts. We can stay up to 21 days at no charge in the premier resorts. It has paid for itself many times over. Not all the parks are great, there are some that are very tight and not real desirable. We just roll with it. Off season we can stay at the same park unlimited times but if we stay more than a week at a park we have to be out of the coast to coast network for a week. We also have the RPI membership so we will stay at an RPI for a week at 10 a night. The park we are staying at now is a Deluxe and we have been here since March because it is both RPI and Coast to Coast and it is currently their "off season". We stay 2 weeks free than pay 70 for the following week and so on. It is not for everyone but works for us and has saved us a boat load of money. It paid for itself within the first year.
I will add the site we are currently staying at would have cost us $5250.00 plus electric for the 7 months if we were paying the full rate.
Thanks so much for sharing guys! This is a great example of how you can leverage multiple memberships to save big on camping costs. Save travels lol!
Sounds interesting Tom; thanks for the info!
Great membership. Had for years.
Newbe to your channel and loving it🥰
we belong to travel resorts america and with that we have coast to coast for 150 a year and love them both
Interesting option. We’ve heard of it in our four years of full timing but never looked into it much. Thank you for the information we’ll have to check it out
Have had membership since 1983. Is one our best.
Thanks Tom! I’m from Minnesota as well. North of the cities, Forest Lake area. We were at Wild River State park just last weekend. The next time out will be at Lambs on the North shore. I’ll have to check out Coast to Coast.
How much do points cost? You said you only had 6,000 points left before you have to refill, how much is a refill?
$10 per 1000 points
You just buy more points when you need them. $10 for 1000 points.
"THOUNSAND" too much vino lololol
We are Good Sam members but haven't heard much about Coast to Coast, we will definitely look into it. Thanks so much for sharing this with us.
Our pleasure!
Sounds like an awesome membership Tom. Thanks for sharing safe travels👍
Thank you for the info . We just started into full time r.v. living on August 12
Congrats Carol!
I am definitely going to keep the Coast to Coast membership in mind for our future travels. Thank you for sharing!
Glad to finally get an update on Cherie.
Not clear about C2C & points charged...
Hi Jane, yes these memberships can be confusing, so contact the experts with any additional questions: Contact Kimberly with your membership questions, enjoythejourney.life/TT or 800-272-0401 (mention Tom Kenemore if you call in)
Get $100 off a Thousand Trails camping pass! Contact Aaron Aaron_Massa@equitylifestyle.com or 360-489-4407
RV MEMBERSHIP VIDEOS enjoythejourney.life/TTvideos
Coast to Coast FAQ www.coastresorts.com/faq.cfm
Hello when you refill your points, do you pay for them
Looks like you can't buy a membership directly, you have to purchase a partner membership and then during that process you have the option of adding on the Coast to Coast membership...that's how I understand it from a first look, is this about right? From the Coast to Coast website, "In order to be eligible for membership in Coast to Coast, you must first become a member of one of our network resorts. Coast memberships are not available to the general public at any cost, but instead are offered to you by one of our participating resorts at the time of your resort membership purchase." So just another hidden cost to be aware of, still looks like the partner parks are nice enough. What's great is it fills in the midwest "hole" that Thousand Trails has...
Yes you have to have a home base membership. We are members of outdoor adventures in Michigan and then coast to coast cost us $150 a year.
@@theresatom4807 Excellent thanks for clarifying exploring the options 2-3 nights free to give it a try! :-)
Contact Kimberly with your membership questions, enjoythejourney.life/TT or 800-272-0401 (mention Tom Kenemore if you call in)
Get $100 off a Thousand Trails camping pass! Contact Aaron Aaron_Massa@equitylifestyle.com or 360-489-4407
RV MEMBERSHIP VIDEOS enjoythejourney.life/TTvideos
Coast to Coast FAQ www.coastresorts.com/faq.cfm
🍀🍀🍀🍀 welcome back Cheri. I will need to check this out. Hopefully the membership offers sites in Canada 🇨🇦 safe travels
Here’s what they offer in Canada (1st # is C2C/ 2nd # is Good Neighbors Parks)
AB: 2/4
BC: 2/6
MB: 0/4
NB: 0/6
N&L: 0/1
NS: 0/6
ON: 0/34
PE: 0/3
QC: 1/5
SK: 0/2
So only 5 C2C and 71 GNP in Canada.
You also need to know that for the GNP, you need to phone the park directly, you can’t book through the C2C website and they often offer discounts only during their low season!
How much do the "points " cost ????
He’s just said, 1000 dollars joining after that 100 to 150 depending what membership you have, if you back on this video you will see it.
1000 points cost $10. You buy as many as you need
How much does it cost?
Contact Kimberly with your membership questions, enjoythejourney.life/TT or 800-272-0401 (mention Tom Kenemore if you call in)
Get $100 off a Thousand Trails camping pass! Contact Aaron Aaron_Massa@equitylifestyle.com or 360-489-4407
RV MEMBERSHIP VIDEOS enjoythejourney.life/TTvideos
Coast to Coast FAQ www.coastresorts.com/faq.cfm
@@EnjoyTheJourneyLife Thanks I'm copying the info for later
interesting, dumped my coast to coast membership many years ago. Not enough sites and usually in very remote locations. Yearly fees were high back in the day
I have a completely unrelated question for you hopefully someone can help me. My husband and I just bought a 20/20 keystone fuzion 373 toy hauler. It looks pretty identical to yours so it has two bathrooms. Do I need two separate hoses for water?
Minnesota is one of my favorite places 😊
EJTL, hi this surely is a nice shady place, does NOT look like a RV PARK you can get some serious REST here+ hookups ! Wow, ,, happy trails, cheers🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I belong to coast to coast about 20 + years ago. I rarely found resort close to freeways I was traveling. Also impossible to get a stay in snowbird country . I was just told by KN resorts they wanted 10,000 $ for a membership. I don't trust them
It’s a time share. Why would you try to sell people this?
Never really considered a membership until now. I'm going to look into this
I encourage you to raise awareness on Organized Stalking and Harassment.
Huh?? I'm not being sarcastic. My husband and I are retiring and hitting the road October 1st and I'm very curious as to what you're talking about.
If I have to pay $1,000 plus just to start it is definitely Not $10 per night! You have to factor the initial cost in.
Susanshaver912 So true ! Funny how salespeople get us to easily look passed those things. 😮
Great to see an (other) alternative to TT. While I plan to boondock/dry camp/moochdock most of the time, this is a good alternative at a good price (once you get past the initial fee). Thanks for sharing Tom!!!
We used my in-laws Coast to Coast membership for a couple of vacations back in the 90s. It was a time-share back then. We stayed in campgrounds in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona. The one in Colorado was the only place (back then) that wasn't crap. Most had just changed hands and were run down from years of disuse. Maybe we hit all the bad ones. Anyway, it looks like some of them are nice now.
Interesting. We will look into this membership. We went full time RV Living almost 2 months ago and are looking for another membership since like you said, Thousand Trails mostly covers the coasts, but nothing much further inland. We currently have Thousand Trails and Harvest Host memberships. Thanks for the heads up!
OMG how do you do it TOMMY this is awesome. Thanks for the info
We are members of coast to coast and we love it
We stay at national forest campgrounds with a access pass we pay usually $10 a night and some BLM sites can be as little as $1 a night. Some are free. We are in a free site now. We never need hookups .
What are the points you was talking about ?
Glad you mentioned Cheri, I was wondering. We miss her!
Hello and thumbs UP to you two !
🖐 Hi Richard!
If Marcus Lemonis(Camping World) is involved it's a good deal for him, not for you. I try to stay away from anything he touches.
Getting pretty hard to do that. They're buying up all kind of stuff RV related, including RV Parks.
Did u get that tshirt out of the wrong draw? LOL she’s gonna be mad at u when she gets back.
1000$ to join plus 150$ a year plus extra $$ to fill points & 10$ a night doesn’t sound like a good deal to me at all IMO
Excellent deal. Practice on your math ....
What happened to shreei (Sp) never see her any more
He’s just said, she’s been visiting family, she is flying in today. Does anybody really watch these videos.
I have a good sam membership it's trash. Just get AAA
Great information. Thank you so much for sharing. I hope they offer you something for giving all of us this valuable information. Thank you for sharing. You are helping the rv community grow.
Glad it was helpful!
Have a membership for many years. Sycamore Lake and Gettysburg are my home resorts. Great services and great staff.
We have Coast to Coast thru Travel Resorts of America. The best investment I have ever made.
I’m a financial planner...based on your comment you need help ... cheers
My family has had C2C since the 90s. They used to have a big book full of campgrounds all over the US. We’d go from FL to CA to Maine for vacations. I remember one resort in KS had a roller skating rink! They have horseback riding at some resorts too.
In the early 90s we had a CC membership that came with our K/M membership. They were $1 a night then and you were limited to the number of nights and day of week. We cancelled them.
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At 1000 dollars you lost me.
You're all that and a super-size bag of chips, want to be youtube friends?
Will not be a secret now.
Loose lips, sinks ships
I like your channel but Tom you need to put your hands in your pockets, it’s distracting and dizzying to see them flailing around when you’re talking. Still love you guys!