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Hide-A-Way Lakes

Yorkville, IL

Reviewed by camper98 on Sep 05, 2007 05:56 PM

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Family Friendly
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Site Type
Tent
Do you plan on coming back again?
No
When Did you go Camping?
Summer 2007
Short Summary
Enter at your own risk
Comments:
This is not a campground, this is a junkyard. I don’t have time to talk about all of the reasons why this place should be avoided, but here are the highlights:

#1) This place is dirty. There are broken down cars, trucks and RV’s everywhere, and abandoned “huts” I guess you could call them. You feel like you’ve stepped into the movie Deliverance and your only protection is a security guard who looks like he’s 85.

#2) No “quiet-time” curfew enforced. Our neighbors blasted Latin dance music (one CD, on repeat) from their car until 5 A.M. They refused to turn it off and, again, there was no security to help.

#3) Old men drunk-driving on golf carts. Not as funny as it sounds. More scary like “Is he going to hit me?” or “Is the old guy in the passenger seat going to fall out when they make that turn?”

#4) The employees. There were two women working in the office/shop, and both were extremely rude.

#5) The pool. A flooded cement block full of river water. It’s actually worse than it sounds. Even the employees didn't think we should swim in it.

#6) The bathrooms. Lights working? Plumbing working? The facilities were a crapshoot, one working, the next worthless. Except for the showers, which were all pretty much worthless. We could find no working showers for women. I had to sneak my girlfriend into the men’s bathroom to use the showers.

#7) This place just feels creepy, like some alternate dimension where normal manners and normal brain functions don’t apply. It seems like a good place to disappear, like a great spot for Bin Laden if he got sick of hiding out in a cave.

You’re thinking that no place could be that bed. Yes, it really is. Go ANYWHERE else. I’ve always had good luck with KOA’s; go to one of them or anywhere else.



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