Holiday RV Park

This is an HOA and all the horrors one can imagine happens here! I drove in after hours. Saw the sign stating they had wifi. Once we settled in we realized wifi did not connect. We were at the office first thing to pay for our night. Told them wifi didn’t connect and they said I needed an password. She gave it to me and so I paid for an extra night. Went back and found the wifi didn’t connect. Within the hour my partner went to see if there was something wrong. They said to look at their paperwork where it says wifi not guaranteed… but I paid you for another night based on you giving me the password. Mind you, it was 9am and I still had time on my first night… I told them I needed to do work before the holiday and they suggested I go to Starbucks. I told her I would rather have a refund to go elsewhere and she said it was too late as I paid already. I just paid you an hour ago. Oh well she said. You paid. But I’m leaving as your sign outside says wifi and you don’t have it. But it’s not guaranteed and it’s in their fine print. I paid before they handed me the paperwork. They would not refund me. I got ready to go and went inside for them to sign I had checked out, and none of them would sign I was leaving! They stared at their one page form one must submit if someone is seeking a refund, then my partner says, so we are SOL? And Ed, the manager said yes! Then he tells me, he is tired of talking to me and was going to call the police! Really? Not an hour ago we were all laughing looking forward to Thankgiving! And they were still all smiles saying they were keeping my money! Now, how can I stay, even though I’m paid up for the next day with the management threatening me with jail! I did not curse, I did not raise my voice… I wish I had checked out their reviews, but I went on their huge sign advertising wifi… Ed told me to my face that it wasn’t a guarantee of it. Hmmmm ok, I understand and speak fluent English. Isn’t that like deceptive advertising? I went to another site that night fuming about having to pay for two nights. I called my bank to dispute the charges but Chase decided to pay them anyway. Am I missing something? They ripped me off with a smile. Don’t ever go to an HOA and don’t believe in ‘smiling faces’. I asked each one of the staff to sign on their form what time I was leaving… and like the does on the highway they went blank saying «we can’t sign anything»…and you are in business? Wow!!!

After reading some of the negative reviews on here it reminds me of why I mainly just use Unilocal to find a address or telephone # of a place I need. People on here are talking about Holiday RV Park as if they were expecting it to be a five star resort off the coast of Pismo. For an RV park, it’s one of the best I’ve ever stayed at. The pool is phenomenal (extremely large & heated), large jacuzzi, large & clean laundry room, a lot of clean restrooms & showers to the point that I felt I was only sharing it w/3−4 people instead of a large RV Park, multiple grills, & two fire pits & walking distance to the Pismo main strip & beach. The employees in the office were very nice & courteous. I needed to print out a 3 page work email @ around 9:30am & they gladly printed it for me.
Great place. Enjoy!

Well, returned here after staying here last year and having a good time. This stay was not as good but OK. My site was dirty. Cigarette buts and gum wrappers on the ground.
I understand the previous manager resigned at the beginning of the year. Too bad. You can tell he is no longer here.
Also changed is the office staff. I stayed towards the back of the park this time. WAY TO MANY NOISEY DOGS! I understand that they live with the permanents and that some of theses people are owners and/​or members is the board. I guess that’s why they are left to do what they want.
I do hope the new manager that comes on board gets things back in shape like it was last summer. The new sign looks great!

This place is tiny! Thankfully the other guests were nice enough to move their tow vehicles so I could back in. This left me with no room to park another vehicle so I was going to pay for another site just for parking. I was told I couldn’t do that because it wasn’t an RV, I literally looked at the empty sites all weekend while having to find parking around town. If you have a trailer or motorhome larger than 30 feet stay out of here. The sites are 36ft long and 16ft wide, the road driving in is narrower than the site is deep. Lesson learned, check the Unilocal reviews before making reservations.

the staff is great, the park terrible, it has such small rv spaces we had to park our truck about a mile away on the street and walk back and forth. the cable outlet was under the rv next to me. we would have left but the whole area was booked for the 3 day weekend. we will never go back.

We stayed here one night in March 2014. We arrived tired from a long drive, pulled up to the office, walked in and clearly asked one of the 4 receptionists which space number they had set aside for us on my reservation so I could get out of the driveway and then settle up at the office. The receptionist looked up my record and simply said «Sixty-​two sixteen». I thought it was odd to have 4 digit space numbers in a lot this size. We drove around and found only 3 digit space numbers, none resembling the number she gave me. I pull back up to the office saying I couldn’t find that space number, she says she didn’t give me a space number, that was the price. I tell her I asked for the space number, she says «no you didn’t». I stood dumbfounded as she looked at my reservation again and gave me a real 3 digit space number. We parked and then I checked in at the office without further incident. I give it 2 stars for location and friendly residents & maintenance staff. However I subtract one star for the extremely tight spaces, and 2 stars for office staff saying they know better than the customer what the customer said 5 minutes ago.

So read all the other reviews before coming to Holiday RV in Pismo and frankly was a little scared. We just stayed for the weekend, when arriving everyone was very friendly. Julio, one of the workers arrive right way and helped us get into our spot. Was the best experience I have had backing into a spot. He stood right by my drivers window and talked me into the spot in minutes. VERY NICE! Yes the spaces are tight and it is like a big parking lot and NO FIRES… but given all of that it still was great! When we were first told they did not allow fires I was reall bummed out, but after we got set up, my fiancé and I jumped on our bikes to explore… when we realized we were a 2 minute ride from downtown Pismo Beach! All the bars, cafes, shops and restaurants and the pier… ok I get it… LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION… Peolple were all friendly, pool heated, spa awesome, bathrooms clean. We are fairly new to RV’ing, just got our trailer in June of last year, but have explored a little. We have found every place has some good and bad. We would definatly return to Holiday RV in the future. We rode through Coast RV across the street and it looked nice also, the had concrete fire pits and DID allow fires.

This is really just a cement/​gravel parking lot with hook-​ups, VERY narrow sites, mostly back-​in. (I have never seen such narrow sites). A single bathroom building half-​way down two long roads, with a (very) few palm trees here and there. The long term residents are all near the bathroom/​showers and overnighters, like me, are assigned further away. The facilities (pool, laundry, etc.) are well kept. I had the same experience reported by others about paying in advance for late arrival because the office closes so early (4:45) — then being asked to ‘check in’ the next day. Was unable to use the internet that night (no code), had to wait until they opened at 8 am to get it. In the office, the young man is very nice, the young woman not so much. I will choose another park next time.
Tips: when you reserve, ask for ALL the codes before you hang up (bathroom, internet, pool gate, etc.). Don’t forget to check in – they have a «thing» about that.

I dont generally like writing bad reviews, but if I can spare someone the agony of this place I will be happy. This was the only part of my vacation to Pismo that I did not enjoy. The people that work here, aside from maybe the guy Luke (who helped me back into the tiny spot) were all rude and ignorant. I tried to get them to let me stay in my spot friday and saturday but they made me move spots saturday morning to the other side of the park. I would understand this if maybe a person requested a spot, but its a gravel parking lot and the left and right side spots of the park are the, all the same size, no shade, just a gravel parking space. Just overall a terrible experience mainly due to the horrible service the front desk provided. Some people that lived there seemed to not be too friendly either. I will be trying a different park next time. This place wont get another penny from me. Other than that enjoy Pismo.

I knew I just have followed my gut on this one by the review on this place. While I was making my reservation I told the gal that we would not be arriving until after the office closed on Friday 7÷11÷14 and that we will be leaving first thing in the morning before they opened at 8am for the day. She said no problem they would just charge my credit card for our stay. We arrived at 9pm and was greeted by the security guard. He was extremely helpful helping us get our small 19′ trailer in our very, very, tight spot. I could not believe how small the spaces were. We could not even put our owning out. Our tow truck could not fit in the space and there was no parking for it. We left it there hanging out a bit because I was told the space would be plenty big for it. This is a park not for the weekend travelers. It is full of long timers. How they live in such tight spots is beyond me. We could hear the guy next to us snoring. No joke. The next morning we left to our event before the office opened. I received the first voice mail from Aaron at the park indicating that I didn’t check in and that there was no cancellation and that I would be charged. I called back and explained to the gal that answered the phone that I was there but arrived and left while the office was closed. She said no problem that she would tape my receipt on my trailer. I received another phone call shortly after from the park manager Steve. He proceeded to tell me that I failed to check in and I needed to adjust my schedule to do that. Are you kidding me? After speaking to two different employees explaining that I couldn’t do that because of THEIR office hours I get this call. I was to leave the wedding an hour away to go check in to accommodate their office hours? First of all who closes an RV park office at 5 pm? Second do they not communicate with each other or put notes on a guest file? I suggest the park find a better way of having guests check in while the office is closed.
If you want a space that you don’t feel your neighbors breath this is not it. If you are even a bit weary of backing in (no pull throughs) your rig don’t try it. You will only have about one foot to play with if you are lucky. Thank God we only had a 19′ trailer because if we had anything bigger we would have had to drive home 3 hours.

My family and I have stayed at Holiday RV many times over the years as Pismo is one of my favorite getaways. Great location with being only 2 blocks from the beach and Pismo (the town) yes it is an older park and spaces a bit tight I have a 34′ motorhome with 2 slides. However the people have always been friendly and helpful. The pool is always well kept as are the showers. The rates are reasonable, people are friendly, clean well managed park. The good times are there to relax and enjoy.

WORST VACATION EVER! If you love being crowded into a tiny little space, with no where to park your tow vehicle, love NON-​pet friendly people, and love a park that advertises that it’s a resort but it’s actually FULL OF PERMANENTS that make you feel unwelcome, then this is your place. We stayed here in July 2013 in a 31″ travel trailer. We are from Sacramento and traveled 6 hours for our one-​week summer vacation.
When you put your awning out, it literally will hit the rig in the next spot. We showed up 2 hours AFTER our check-in…there was still another rig in our spot. We were made to wait and then they stated it would be another 2 hours before he would move it. What?! So they scrambled and found us another spot that was open for a week. Unfortunately my elderly parents traveled in their motorhome with us, so they were now parked even farther away from us… exactly the opposite end of the park now. Then their WiFi didn’t work for the first 3 days. Oops on management, again.
Parking your tow vehicle: There is NONE. Their web site states that they have parking for a small fee, but now they say they only allow that off-​season. Okay, but that’s not what they advertise in writing. We have a 2012 Dodge 3500 Diesel Laramie. They told us to park our truck right next to our rig… we would have to squeeze the truck between the next rig’s slide out and the steps on our rig. The door to our rig hit our truck upon opening it. We have 2 small children and 2 lab puppies, so how are we supposed to even get out the door? To park our vehicle, they made us block our only exit door. THIS IS NOT EVEN LEGAL. IT“S A FIRE HAZARD. There were no openings in any other campground, but the very nice campground across the street, Pismo Coast Village, has an overflow parking lot they share with the state park. So check this out. My husband had to put his bicycle in the back of his truck, drive a ½ mile down the road to park our brand new truck in the overflow parking, and then ride his bike out and pedal the ½ mile back. I AM NOT JOKING. This was completely from the twilight zone. The manager is inconsistent He told us a couple of times we could park in an empty space in the park when no one was there, and then the next moment would come screaming in his golf cart for us to move it. What?! He just told us we could park there and now he does an about face because a «permanent» complained?
It gets better. Our lab pups had just hit their 6-​month mark and this was their very first camping trip. We always had them on leash, and we cleaned up after them on every instance. I noticed people walking their pets on the concrete… the whole park is concrete and that’s where the dogs would have to do their business. Signs everywhere stated, «Pick up after your pet.» No problem. Our labs didn’t mind there was no grass anywhere and we just picked up after them, just like EVERYBODY else in the park. But we were fortunate enough to be parked next the biggest dog-​hater in America and when she saw our labs poop or potty, even though we cleaned it up on the spot, she started screaming that we have to take them to the dog park to poop and potty! What dog park? They have this tiny triangle about ¹⁄₆ mile at the other end of the park that dogs can go into. It’s not a dog park. It’s a hole that’s the size of my master bathroom at home and it stinks like nobody’s business. There was NO WAY I was letting my prized, purebred labs in that stink-​hole with God knows what germs and infestations. There were no signs saying we HAD to take our dogs there, and I noticed everyone walking their dogs and just cleaning up after them. So what was this lady’s problem targeting us and no one else? So I asked around and a couple of the other residents said that she’s full of BS and that we did NOT have to use it, especially being on the opposite side of the park. Am I really supposed to ask a lab puppy to «hold it» for ¹⁄₆ mile walk? Yah they couldn’t even hold it more than a few feet. So I got really angry that we were being bullied by Mrs. Crazy next door just because she hated dogs. They were on leash and we cleaned up. So I tried talking to the manager and you know what he said? Guess. Just guess. Yep he asked us to be considerate of crazy-lady’s wishes and that no it’s not their strict policy to have people walk that far with their dogs and no it’s not in writing on any signs or brochures or ads but could we just do it. I never wanted to slap a guy so bad in my entire life. Oh by the way I’m a petite woman that wouldn’t hurt a fly. My parents were so fed up with their own issues with the park, they left a day early. We drove out of that mess at 11 PM at night. I have never been so upset and never experienced this with any RV park ever… ever! I am not exaggerating on any of these points. That lady was a nut job and the manager is whacked himself. So if you decide to stay here, don’t bring pets, and bring a motorhome with no tow vehicle or bring your bicycle! LOL