Nature Resort RV & Park

Hillbilly Heaven!!! A real dump, tight spaces, non-​working wi-​fi, flooded sites, office staff was less than pleasant or helpful. We were assigned a site and when we got there someone else was in it. We took another spot and went back to tell the office what we had done, she told us to tell the people that were in our spot to call her… YA RIGHT!!!
KEEP DRIVING!!!
Stay at the Walmart down the street!!!

We live an hour & a half away from Homosassa in southeastern Tampa area, so we were able to park our 5^th wheel here for a month & drive up every weekend. We originally planned our trip just for one weekend, but had so much fun we extended our visit. There is a country store at the entrance that has basic camp supplies, plus ice cream, beer, Nature’s Resort souvenirs & cute camp kitsch. They rent golf carts, pontoon boats & cabins here too. The shaded, grassy sites are sometimes small & get booked quick; we are quite big & stayed in the gravelly, no shade section, which was unfortunate but not a deal breaker. In the back of the campground is the river. They have a nice boat ramp, dock & dive bar/​restaurant. We were there for Halloween & the decorations were fantastic. There is also a clubhouse that serves breakfast every weekend, a playground & pool for the kids & very clean bathing facilities. This isn’t a fancy place, but everyone is friendly & hospitable. Across the street is another restaurant & bar that we visited many times as well. Publix, fast food, Walmart, Crystal River fun & a great little wildlife park is all within minutes away. We look forward to returning soon!

Really enjoyed our visit, easy access to the water, river has clearly marked channels and a solid boat ramp. It was a little tight to get the boat trailer backed in with being at full capacity but otherwise great. Limited space at the dock to leave the boat in overnight. Amenities were aged but in good shape, place was clean including toilets and showers. We’d stay here again in a heartbeat.

ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE WITH THE STAFF AT THIS RESORT.
In early June, over the phone, and with the help of Susie (who was actually very nice even though I never dealt with her again… and as you will read, I really wished later that I had), I booked and paid half of the cost of our stay for a cabin that included a Murphy bed (in order to sleep 4 adults) and that was situated on the water exactly where I had hoped we would be so we could enjoy views of nature, relative quiet, and the gorgeous sunsets. Susie had recommended that specific lot to me even and said that it was by far the best and how lucky I was that I was so ahead of the game and booking it early. Another couple we were coming with booked an RV lot on the water near our cabin in mid-​June for the same August weekend for their camper.
Well, lo and behold, when we showed up to check in on our scheduled date, our cabin had inexplicably been given to someone else, our friends who had rented (and paid for) the RV lot on the water near us also discovered their lot had been given to someone else, and the trip continually went quickly downhill from there. My fiancée’, my friends, and I ALL found the staff to be outrageously rude, apathetic, terse, and any other word that you can think of to describe the opposite of helpful or even civil. No one cared or even pretended to care that our cabin had been given away. When no one knew what to do with the mistake and how to handle it, I was put on the phone with some woman named «Candi,» who I might add was described by the ladies in the office as the culprit who supposedly booked someone else into our already reserved cabin some time in mid-​July (after I booked it in the first week of June and was mailed a receipt and letter confirming such). Candi was ruder than even I could have imagined (I have a vivid imagination) to eventually be rudely told that I could pay 80% of the cost we had been quoted to be in a cabin nowhere near the water… Or, that I could take my car full of groceries we picked up on the way in, our stuff, and our friends and leave. Outrageous.
After I raised Cain, nearly cried from anger and frustration, and sent my fiancée’ out of the office who was justifiably, quickly losing patience faster than me as I worked very hard to remain calm and polite with the ladies despite my frustration, and went continually back and forth with «Candi» (who eventually told me she didn’t want to speak to me anymore and that I could not speak to anyone superior to her because «he» –whoever that is-​, was on vacation with his family) for a period of no less than 45 minutes, my proposal that we be given two cabins for the price of one was accepted and we went on our way to check in. We were not happy with this; however, we had a car full of groceries, a fun weekend planned with friends, and a scalloping charter booked the next morning, so we tried to make the most of it despite my great disappointment.
The cabin we were placed in was aesthetically adequate for a campground/​rv resort (although there was trash all under the stairs and outside around the «cabin”/mobile home), but yet again it was nowhere close to where I had booked our cabin on the water. And because of the blunder with our cabin and our friends’ rv spot, we were all separated from each other. We made the most of it, but it was not the experience I had planned and my disappointment was compounded by the insensitive and downright rude reactions of the staff.
However, things worsened as on Friday after we settled in, we called to rent kayaks and were told that we had to rent the kayaks by no later than 4 p.m. It was already 5:30 p.m., so we planned to go the next afternoon after we returned from scalloping for the day. The next day (Saturday) we returned from scalloping at about 2:00. We unloaded the boat, put our scallops away, ate a snack, and then called at 3:05 P.M. to rent the kayaks (that we could see from our cabin and that no one was using), and we were told that we could not because they could not be rented any later than 3:00 P.M. When my fiancée’ pointed out the exact explicit conversation that we had with the front desk the day before when we were told in no uncertain terms that we could rent them until 4:00 P.M., we were rudely (in the same vein as our conversations when we checked in) told that that was impossible, we were never told that, and that because it was 3:05, we couldn’t do it. Disappointing again. Unnecessary rudeness again. Blatant disorganization and lack of communication between staff yet again.
Final word (s): My fiancée’ got bedbugs from the bed in the cabin. THAT’S RIGHT. BEDBUGS. We noticed as soon as we returned home directly after checkout on Sunday. Bottom line: DO NOT STAY HERE. They are horrible.