Manager is an absolute shyster. Rip Off
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 07/27/09
It took my group a total of 30 minutes to get kicked out of the place. And what did we do? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. He accused us of 'cursing' and being loud - when the contract specifically stated that quiet time is after 11pm. It was 10:30. At first, the Father of the family owned place walks up in a belligerent manner asking us the rhetorical question "If we talk this way at home." Being as we are older than he thought and either own or rent our own homes, we answered "Yes." He didn't even identify himself as the owner of the campsite... He probably thought we were a bunch of 18 year old kids or something which we are much older... Right after that he said - well go ahead and go home and you can talk that way all you want, pack your stuff or I will have you arrested. We were completely dumbfounded... So we said we will keep it down and we are sorry. After he walked away, we made a comment about how ignorant and rude that was, then the SON of the owner (Middle aged guy that looks and sounds like Ned Flanders) came up and told us he didn't appreciate us making fun of his father that way and again threatened to have us arrested. So he calls the cops (which we are glad, so we have a witness to get our money back, or take him to court proving that nothing was damaged and we didn't break the contract either) and the cops were super nice, because they apparently know these people have nothing better to do and kick people out for no reason all the time... We made the cops come look at the place so we have a witness that everything was fine when we left. Then he tried to keep all of our money, and when we threatened to take him to court he said we would only be charged for the evening. He apparently knows that this amount isn't worth coming back to that Podunk town for a trial but gets us out of almost 100 bux nonetheless. You can't even cook on an open fire there - what kind of camping is that? Everyone in Jim Thorpe seemed to be ignorant and unwelcoming probably because they are tired of the tourism... Well I got news for those rednecks - we bring the money to your town and keep its economy going - if you don't like it then move somewhere even more insignificant. We found another campground called that used to be called Goss Hawks - but it's under new ownership right off of Germans road. This place was amazing, the owner was super nice - and the clubhouse, pool, deck were all beautiful. No issues there - and you are even aloud to cook a damn marshmallow over the fire! Wow - what a concept! Stay away from Jim Thorpe unless you want to get robbed and ripped off by a family of tool bags. On top of all that, the cabins smelled horrible, and the beds even had some sort of grimy unidentifiable film on them - it was disgusting. Funny thing is, we even found people at the camp site we ended up at that got kicked out for nothing as well! And another group didn't even bother trying Jim Thorpe becasue they read the reviews!
Stay away from this camp site - it is a dump, over crowded, and you get thrown out for throwing marshmallows over the fire. I even heard the managers father tried to get in someones face and fight them. Totally ridiculous.
Stay away from this rip off place - it's a sham.
See you in court buddy.