Pirates Cove RrrrV Park

Overall, it’s a good park. I do have a few comments for improvement, if the owners are reading.  1) At check-in, after driving for hours, I was handed a dog waiver to sign. It was typed, front and back of the sheet. My husband’s outside in the truck blocking parking spaces with our rig, so I couldn’t stand there for 20 minutes reading it. I just signed it. The employee at check-in didn’t tell me what it said or anything, and didn’t give me a copy to read later. Best practice we’ve seen in our years of full-timing is this: put two affidavits in front of the person, highlight the poop and leash rules while telling them “these are the rule: pick up the poop and keep the dog contained at all times,” have them sign both, give one to the customer and keep one in the office. Otherwise, the customer can claim they were not told the policy. During our time there, we witnessed 3 occasions where dogs were loose. One ran out of the site aggressively toward us while we were walking past with our dog leashed. (Of course, it was not one of the “banned breeds,” it was a small dog, but if it had attacked OUR dog and there had been a fight, you know who would have been kicked out of the park.) There was also someone allowing their dog to poop on the sidewalk and not picking it up, dog poop on the ground in the “dog park” and I almost stepped in one while guiding the husband into our site. The managers could avoid a lot of this if they stressed their policies and gave a copy of it to people upon check-in.  2) The park was almost all retired snowbirds while we were here. We are also retired. Many activities geared toward children. Some of the activities geared toward adults don’t start until 7pm. Of course, the park is not run by retirees, so they probably don’t realize that we are more likely to attend an activity if it starts earlier. Something that starts at 7 and won’t end until 9 or 10 isn’t going to appeal to us.  3) Hot tubs are not for children. The pickleball court is not for children. We brought our pickleball gear, but could not play because the net was ruined. One day the court had basketballs in it. There IS a basketball court. There is NO reason for children to take them into the pickleball court, pull the net down and ruin it for the adults who are paying to stay here. 4) The activity room is large, and they hold a lot of events in there, but the building is all metal including the ceiling. The acoustics are horrible! You can’t hear people talking nearby, and when they play music for dancing, it just reverberates off the metal. Some foam panels on the ceiling would help.    Summary: the park is clean enough, it’s convenient to a lot of things, but management needs to pay attention to a few things.

This is a really nice place, convenient to all the areas of Foley. All campsites have a wide concrete pad, fully electric with water and sewer. The shower bathrooms were very clean and open 24 seven. I personally had one issue in that I had a long day, and arrived later in the evening, but the Friday night karaoke did not end until after 10 PM, so I didn’t get to sleep as soon as I wanted to. However, I got over it and slept a little bit later the next morning and went about my business for the day. Our second night Saturday evening was just fine. I would definitely stay here again if I come through the area. Our corner campsite was close to two intersecting roads, and occasionally a loud vehicle will pass by. As I am used to some noise in the evening, it didn’t bother me, but it might bother someone else who is looking for complete silence. But that has more to do with the location of some of the campsites so feel free to book sites in the center of the campground if they are available. I still give this place four out of five stars. Although each individual campsite has Wi-Fi, I had a strong signal on Verizon 5G ultra wideband.