Making reservations for your friends

You would be surprised how many folks who battle the phone lines on January 2 to make camping reservations at Strawberry Park wind up having their reservations canceled for lack of payment. Most times, it is folks making additional reservations for their friends, who then fail to follow through. While we do require a deposit within 7 days of reserving, if we don't hear from those campers, we send out a little reminder notice. Sadly, if we still have not heard from you, we have no choice but to cancel the reservation, as there are already folks on a waiting list for certain sites and areas for specific dates. Some campers call and let us know they are mailing a check, or that they are only able to pay part of the deposit now, and the remainder will be sent in a couple of weeks. We are more than willing to work with you, but we do need to hear back from those who receive the non-payment notices. Often, someone is part of a multi-site reservation...and if they are canceled, it might create a site gap within the group, which could be filled by another camper who is not part of the group (and probably does not really want to be smack-dab in the middle of 5 other sites who are all together). We do try to re-adjust groups that have had a site in the middle canceled, but that is not always possible. Looks like it was fairly busy at the Boston RV Show, especially on Saturday. We will draw the Facebook RV Show Raffle winners a little later today. We have started getting more visitors on the weekends looking for seasonal sites. There are a couple of current seasonals that we have tried to reach about rebooking, but if we have not heard from you by now, chances are that your site is already reserved by someone else for the upcoming season. Once again, if they had just let us know, we would have been happy to hold the site a little longer if needed. No camping shows for a couple of weeks, but then there are 2 big ones on President's Day Weekend, in Springfield and in Suffern NY. That also happens to be Valentine's Day Weekend this year. I am guessing that Jen is not too thrilled that I will be running a conference championship wrestling tourney on Friday and Saturday, and have to be at the state meetings all day on Sunday Feb 14. Maybe we can go out on Thursday instead. Congrats to the Saints, Vikings, Colts and Jets. Take our survey on the Super Bowl teams. On A&E tonight, something about some ghosts at an inn right here in Preston, right next door to my childhood home. I don't particularly remember any ghostly visits as a kid, but my memory is foggy...and I am not sure if they travel to see the neighbors.