The Difference Between Resort and Resort
We’re at Flamingo Lake RV Resort in Jacksonsville, FL. We arrived in late yesterday afternoon after spending a couple of days in Titusville, were we’d originally planned to watch a rocket launch that was scrubbed.
This place is nice…very nice. Clean, on-site restaurant, beautiful lake, a beach and good, free wifi. It is the picture that would come to mind when you say “RV resort”.
However, not everyone is so careful when they throw out the word “resort”. Earlier in the trip we stayed at Paradise Island RV Resort and it was a freaking dump.
On second thought, that description is probably a little too harsh. But the place is certainly not a resort.
First off, it is in the middle of Fort Lauderdale - not on a beach, not on a lake, not even out of the city.
Second, the RVs were packed in like sardines. I was actually concerned we couldn’t back in without hitting one of our neighbors. I’ve never seen an RV park with sites that tight.
Third, 90% of the sites house trailers or permanently parked RVs. The place was a trailer park with a few camping sites.
Angie and I have often half-joked that there needs to be a law that defines what you can call a “resort” because the term is thrown around willy-nilly.
We’re off to Savannah in a little while. Because of the repairs, the canceled rocket launch, and the fact that we reorganized to make sure we stay with Angie’s sister and brother-in-law in Virginia over Memorial Day, our schedule is all out of whack. So we have to drive every day this week until Friday. We want to get to Savannah early today so we can use at least the afternoon to enjoy the city.