2007 Swanking ideas - Page 15

Bornieo: Fully Loaded · 01-03-2007, 03:26 PM

http://www.koa.com/where/ca/05195/

I was looking into this campground a few years ago. They have rental cabins that look pretty dang swanky!

MouseWife · 01-03-2007, 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by LSPoorEeyorick

Camping is out for me unless it includes an electric outlet. One cannot sleep with one's CPAP in the open air.

Can one hook a CPAP up to one's car battery?

I only know of the few places I've experienced/heard of.

I know Housekeeping camp has electricity. An outlet or two inside and one outside.

A lot of 'cabins' that are bare minimum {bring your own everything} have outlets.

Alex · 01-03-2007, 03:39 PM

I've stayed in many a KOA Kampground in my time and quite a Kamper Kabins.

While they are fine for what they are, there is, as a general rule, nothing swanky about KOA Kampbrounds (though the one outside of Victoria almost manages to feel like a campground and not a parking lot).

MouseWife · 01-03-2007, 03:47 PM

I know a lot of people have had bad experiences with H.C. in Yosemite.

I remember we were not happy to have to stay there as opposed to a room and I thought how silly of people paying so much to stay there for a number of days. I thought I would only stay there as a last resort, like that time, the following two nights we had a very nice room in Curry Village, the loft Standard room in the building right next to main parking lot. But I digress...

Those people who had rented units for 4 or 5 days were in a group of 4 or 5 families/groups. When we went walking around we saw how cool they had set things up.

Lights, card tables for games, water toys for play. Sort of didn't matter at that point how uncomfortable the 'bed' was.

I never went to summer camp but it seemed to me that it must have been something like that.

Oh, and music. A must.

Capt Jack · 01-03-2007, 04:07 PM

whoa! wait a sec. cabins? I thought we were talking "camping"

you know....camping? tents? building a cookfire? (vs starting the Coleman stove and opening freeze dried fillet mignon)

no?

MouseWife · 01-03-2007, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Capt Jack

whoa! wait a sec. cabins? I thought we were talking "camping"

you know....camping? tents? building a cookfire? (vs starting the Coleman stove and opening freeze dried fillet mignon)

no?

Yes, you were.

Ruthie · 01-03-2007, 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by ~MS~

Well there ya go, we have the pep squad covered! We can make signs and everything!

ummmm. . . . I can wave like a princess!

(I am having trouble grinning with a mustache . . . I spend a lot of money keeping mine at bay! LOL

)

Alex · 01-03-2007, 04:49 PM

I know. And people who play music in a campground are the people who spend the weekend getting glared at (as we did last year at King's Canyon when the next slot over played the same three CDs for three days).

But then I grew up with camping where there wasn't another person within 25 miles so car camping in crowded campgrounds isn't my ideal.

lashbear · 01-03-2007, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by LSPoorEeyorick

Can one hook a CPAP up to one's car battery?

There are battery starter thingies (I bought one for my dad) that you use to kick start your car battery when flat. The same devices can be used to run a mains power appliance for about 6-8 hours. If you only need 6 hours sleep then you're set !

I can't wait to use my CPAP in the plane on the way over !!

3894 · 01-03-2007, 07:21 PM

Kittens, you're camping without 3894 .... or Helen. The Great Outdoors and I are through! I've paid my dues, summer after summer in Wyomin'.

This summer: Prince Edward Island and lobsters. Lots and lots and lots of lobsters. Also butter.

01-03-2007, 03:26 PM	#141
Bornieo: Fully Loaded Lego Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Disneyland, USA Posts: 3,704	http://www.koa.com/where/ca/05195/ I was looking into this campground a few years ago. They have rental cabins that look pretty dang swanky!
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01-03-2007, 03:39 PM	#143
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	I've stayed in many a KOA Kampground in my time and quite a Kamper Kabins. While they are fine for what they are, there is, as a general rule, nothing swanky about KOA Kampbrounds (though the one outside of Victoria almost manages to feel like a campground and not a parking lot).
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01-03-2007, 03:47 PM	#144
MouseWife Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Da' Beach Posts: 2,957	I know a lot of people have had bad experiences with H.C. in Yosemite. I remember we were not happy to have to stay there as opposed to a room and I thought how silly of people paying so much to stay there for a number of days. I thought I would only stay there as a last resort, like that time, the following two nights we had a very nice room in Curry Village, the loft Standard room in the building right next to main parking lot. But I digress... Those people who had rented units for 4 or 5 days were in a group of 4 or 5 families/groups. When we went walking around we saw how cool they had set things up. Lights, card tables for games, water toys for play. Sort of didn't matter at that point how uncomfortable the 'bed' was. I never went to summer camp but it seemed to me that it must have been something like that. Oh, and music. A must. __________________ Summa' time....when the livins' easy.........
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01-03-2007, 04:07 PM	#145
Capt Jack check your head Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 4,174	whoa! wait a sec. cabins? I thought we were talking "camping" you know....camping? tents? building a cookfire? (vs starting the Coleman stove and opening freeze dried fillet mignon) no? __________________ a clear conscience is a sure sign of a fuzzy memory
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01-03-2007, 04:49 PM	#148
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	I know. And people who play music in a campground are the people who spend the weekend getting glared at (as we did last year at King's Canyon when the next slot over played the same three CDs for three days). But then I grew up with camping where there wasn't another person within 25 miles so car camping in crowded campgrounds isn't my ideal.
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01-03-2007, 07:21 PM	#150
3894 Next Stop: Funkytown! Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Cheeselandia Posts: 1,907	Kittens, you're camping without 3894 .... or Helen. The Great Outdoors and I are through! I've paid my dues, summer after summer in Wyomin'. This summer: Prince Edward Island and lobsters. Lots and lots and lots of lobsters. Also butter.
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