Really-What are the differences?

[3girlsfun]

I am getting very close to booking our first Fort stay, and I am wondering, really, what is the difference in the Prem. and the regular camp sites?

 

[krhewitt]

A premium site is longer and sometimes wider than a regular site. Also, the premiums don't have a tent pad.

 

[AuburnJen92]

it is closer to the amenities like the trading posts, marina, etc

HOWEVER....

if you have a golf cart, I say why bother...

Give me 1700 and full hook up any day

 

[clkelley]

The full and the preferred do have the sand areas for setting up tents, etc. so if you do need to set up a tent or screen room and need to stake it down, those are better for that.

The Premiums are ALL concrete. I like em, but don't like paying full price for them. And most times, I do need to be able to drive a stake into the ground.

 

[Disneylitch]

I say go for the full hook ups. I can't see spending the extra money for a premium. However, if you have a 40ft unit, you might want to.

 

[YodaGirl]

With the exception of our October trip, we request preferred sites.

Since the revamp, it guarantees us 100, 200, or 300.

We like the location to the Settlement/boats/Pioneer Hall because we don't have a golf cart.

 

[Disneylitch]

We don't have a golf cart either, but we do bring our bikes. We mainly use them and of course we walk, and walk, and walk. I'm bringing a pedometer this time to see how much we really do walk.

 

[3girlsfun]

We will definitely be doing full hook up! Don't want to cart the poopy hauler down to Florida if I don't have too!

 

[FortMommy]

We bring our bikes too, so usually take the full hookup, unless of course there is a great discount on the premium.

 

[mrzrich]

It used to be that the preferred sites included cable, but since the renovations all sites include cable.

 

[ElementCamper]

We will definitely be doing full hook up! Don't want to cart the poopy hauler down to Florida if I don't have too!

Another good reason to not take the poopy hauler, no dump station at the Fort. You have to find an empty site to take it to. Very inconvenient if the Fort was full.

 

[freshlybarked]

We used to stay in Loop 300 as it was the only Preferred Pet Loop available. I hate paying a premium price for a Premium site; however, once we stayed in a Premium site we were hooked. We usually come in after dark and have had some problems in the preferred site with trees being in the wrong place. If we were coming for a couple nights the preferred is fine, but for anything over that we like to spread out and we never have problems with having the awning and slide out, a 10 x 10 canopy, the bikes, etc. I like to spend time just sitting out and enjoying the quiet so I have to vote for Premium.

 

[ftwildernessrick]

We generally always try to stay in a preferred, but it is a roll of the dice sometimes if they give me a site long enough for my motorhome & tow vehicle. Sometimes, the rear of my camper is against the bushes and my tires are on the sand. I have, at times, gone back up to reception and asked for a different site that will fit better. I will give them the site numbers of a couple that will work better and they usually will give me one, if possible. But sometimes they are full & you have to take what you get. I like the preferred because I like to walk down to the beach early morning, or take a break on the porch of TE.

What I do like about the premium sites is that they are big enough to accomodate me with no problem, but, I probably can't use my tent for any extra company.

The picture below is my rig a premium site in the 900 loop almost directly across from the comfort station.

 

[Magicbus]

We will definitely be doing full hook up! Don't want to cart the poopy hauler down to Florida if I don't have too!

Poopy hauler, so that's what they're called. You never mention what you have for an RV, it does make a difference. Looping around last time I was there, I noticed some smallish sites that I think were full hookup and thought, it would be a challenge getting a large MH in there.

 

[naturegirl]

I'm so glad to have read this thread, thank you OP for posting this!

You have helped to confirm my original thoughts that full hook-ups are good enough for us.

 

[North7]

I'd prefer not paying the price for a premium site also, but I do for two reasons...
- I don't like the coquina sand inside the RV and it doesn't seem to matter how hard you try to keep it out, it still gets tracked in. We go quite often in the summer, so with the rain, it sticks to shoes and splashes on anything you have sitting near the sand pad.
- As others have noted, I too like my space... both on the size of my site and in the distance to my neighbors Most of the sites in the 100, 200, and 300 loops are just too close to each other.

I don't put up any tent or shelter so the extra paved area allows the RV to be parked further back in the site which gives more room to park the TV.

 

[Magicbus]

more room to park the TV.

Wow, park your TV, must be huge.

 

[Born 2 Fish]

Wow, park your TV, must be huge.

WAY COOL !!
I want one !!

 

[3girlsfun]

Right now we have a 25 foot TT, but, by then we are hoping for a bigger TT, with two slides. One of those slides will be on the "door" side of the TT. We probably wont have a golf cart (or we might, who knows?) but, if my brother goes, he will have a golf cart that we can use for free! (I LOVE free!)

Anyway. We normally set up an EZ up for the kids to have some shade to play under. Will we be able to set this up at the Fort? The camp grounds here have pea gravel, so the EZ up is fine there. You just can't put anything on the grass. I am assuming this is the same way at the Fort?