KOA Fairplex

Clean washers and dryers, bathrooms, showers, and a small general store. Close to all the fairplex concerts and shows. Two week maximum stay limit and plenty of shade. Lots are tight but they can accommodate large rigs like mine (42′).

I stayed the night at the KOA Fairplex in Pomona, CA on 9÷13÷2015. I’ve stayed there many times before. In fact, I’ve stayed there during the L.A. County Fair for at least the last five years. Biggest plus — it’s walking distance to the fair from your campsite. Biggest minus — it cost me $ 62.17 for the night (even with $ 6.28 off for my KOA card). The staff is always friendly and the KOA is very nice. Plus, I took photos.

Was there for a conference and booked a reservation 6 weeks in advance. Coming from Colorado, I wasn’t made aware of the music festival scheduled for the same weekend. The fair grounds are across the street and parking for the event adjoins the campground. For two days, while I was at the conference my wife watched underage drinking and drug abuse! The campground host’s comment to that was, «well this is LA»! During the afternoon and evening of the festival, your RV literally rocked until after 10 pm. On a sad note, there were two drug related deaths at the concert and I feel the Pomona-​Fairplex KOA condones the behavior of abuse !

Positive — great bathrooms, friendly staff
Negative — Is not as described. We rented tent space. We expected a tent space in a KOA facility, away from congestion. The tent spaces backup to a large parking lot for Fairplex. The lot was completely full and cars entered and exited right next to our tent (see picture). It was loud, chaotic, distracting and not what we were expecting for our camping experience. No where does KOA state these are possible conditions. When checking in, the staff did not notify me that we would hear cars, drunk people from the event, horns, sirens, etc until 1am. Cars leaving were 2 feet from our tent, separated only by a chain link fence. The bonus street sweeper came in at 5:30 am to clean up the parking lot. This was hardly the get away their site makes it out to be.

Small uneven spots, unfriendly management. Only reason to stay at this place is the choices are few in the area

Friendly staff, very nice updated bathrooms, great laundry room with very reasonable prices. We have a 38 foot fifth wheel with one slide out. We had plenty of room. All of the sites have nice big shade trees. The pool area is very nice, however the pool was not heated and was too chilly to get in in March. The pool is gated and requires a key to get in and out. They do ask for a $ 5 returnable deposit when you pick up your pool key. Campground store has all the necessities, plus some nice to have items. We were a fair distance from the main building, but the wifi still worked reasonably well.

We enjoyed the pool and hot tub, and the laundry room was a great amenity as well. However, it is a bit of a hike to Los Angeles and any of the beaches and there is basically no outdoor space at your site at all because the sites are ridiculously close to each other.

We live in Orange County and often go tent camping one or two nights away on fast, short trips. Normally we stay in state parks. Weekends in a California State Park along the beach are almost impossible and we had not tried out a KOA so we thought we would give it a try. First impression, visually, was not so hot. It’s in an urban-​industrial-​fairgrounds-​racetrack area in LA County. Also, on the map they gave us at the desk so we could find out spot, it looked like a thousand miles to walk to the bathroom.
Turns out it takes exactly 2 minutes to stroll all the way across the park, so that was not an issue at all. Bathrooms way cleaner and nicer than anything in the State Parks – nice showers too and you don’t need quarters or tokens – they are free.
Super hot weather inland (95 degrees) but the pool helped a lot because it was not heated and the cool (not cold) water was awesome. Went swimming twice. Hot tub was also good — and sociable. We met the delightful Miss Annie, who is having her 79^th birthday and lives at the park in the tub. Lots of people live there and are real sociable with us camper types. Everyone waves and smiles.
One surprising thing was that the camp was full of… Germans! Tourists from all over Germany use it as a stopping off place to see LA. Many are on a «drive around the country» tour of one kind or another.
Food across the street at the Sports Bar was super good. Get the buffalo burger. It’s also a big horse-​racing establishment, so you watch lots of people betting on horses as you eat.
Campers are super quiet at night and in the morning (also way different from the State Parks). Taking down our tent today, we were very sad to leave and will certainly be back.

Please don’t let one bad review turn you away from this place, it is beautiful! I’m a travel nurse traveling with a fifth wheel and was having difficulty finding a place to stay. The staff were kind and helpful, and were able to get a spot for me for a few weeks while I waited for a monthly spot elsewhere. The place is quiet, clean, and great for families with a pool/​hot tub area. I felt very safe here, and would have loved to stay but their monthly spots have a long waiting list too, and for good reason! The convenience store is great for times when I just needed some eggs or milk, or a nice ice cream treat. They see lots of international visitors who RV across America for vacation, and are very helpful with recommending good places to eat and tours of Hollywood as well. I met the owner when applying for a monthly spot and spent an hour and a half just talking with him. He’s a great guy who is passionate about his business and the safety of his guests. In regards to the slow front desk– there is only one person working at a time and they are responsible for a LOT, please be patient with them and they will definitely return your kindness. You might be on hold for a bit making reservations, but its worth the wait.

This is the KOA Fairplex RV Park. I’ve stayed at much nicer KOA’s. Pool is small, nothing extra to do in the campground, spaces are small & not as level as they should be.

Late getting in. No problem what so ever. Helpful customer service from Deanna and other employees. ALL very wonderful ppl. They left an envelope based on trustworthiness. And code for bathroom. Paid following morning when we woke up after long drive. Everything had been smooth and don’t know what we would have done without these great ppls help considering our truck had broke down the next day. Even though truck that wouldn’t start in someone else’s parking place no one yelled at us. Haha. They patiently helped us get our truck fixed and was able to finally move the truck without any dilemmas.

Some is the RUDEST and MOST EVASIVE people work here. I REFUSE to do business with this place. Save yourself the trouble and go somewhere else.

Mixed review because of personal experience.
I was a late arrival and called in, they took my credit card. they said they would leave info outside the office door– I specifically asked on the phone about the internet access code and bathroom code.
We got there at 11:30pm. Info was left as promised– NO BATHROOM CODE. I was outraged– we were under a time crunch to return our rented RV back to carson City and a shower was mandatory that night. I called security they gave me a code– it was WRONG. They were confused and gave me a code to the men’s room instead hoping I could use that as an alternate– WRONG AGAIN. I have to wait an hour for security to show up and unlock the bathroom. They said the code was changed without their knowledge.
A nice woman gave me the code around 1am.
The next morning I went to the office to explain my situation and she said «You should have gone to lot 58 where the manager lives’. I said at 1am? Really? How about since you already charged my cc and I called in– you should have just written it down on the paperwork you left me? Give me a break.
Other than that– it’s a nice park in a convenient area. The showers and baths are nice. Seems to be many permanent residents there. Nice surrounding residences and only 50 minutes to LA.

This was the worst experience we ever had we were abruptly kicked out due to the manager saying they had complaints funny thing we were asleep. Earlier that afternoon husband and friend helped out employee becuase there was a sewer spilled and still the manager Vaughn was ungrateful we had children and still made us leave at midnight I would never stay or recommend not family friendly also I intend to go further based on watching the owner of KOA he would like the poor manners who does this especially with children

I was there this past weekend for the Irish Festival and I saw this crazy dude try to throw his packaged pitch tent against a tree and he literally fell over a wooden fence and broke said fence. Quite hilarious! He looked pretty hammered.

Lady behind counter was nice enough– but very busy. They might need two workers on a Friday night.
Pool area was way too small for such a large RV park. My kids wouldn’t get in the pool because it was so crowded.
The game room only had 2 video games. The others were broken. There were two board games and some books in there, too. The TV was in there– but it was off and the lights were all off– so I’m not sure if it worked.
The sights are really small (narrow) and hard to drive in and out of in a 31 ft RV.
Just ok. Not great.