Hacienda Solano 55+ Mobile Home & RV Resort

Hacienda Solano is a trailer park that needs to decide whether or not it wants to be a RV resort. Though we found the employees and residents to be overwhelmingly friendly and accommodating, many of this park’s RV spots are best described as an obstacle course caused by recent addition of palm trees and white vinyl fences, causing needless access difficulties. A mobile home park with many trailers dating back to the 1970’s and 1980’s, it looks great aesthetically and is well maintained. It appears to us that an effort has been made to park as many RVs as possible into areas not occupied by mobile homes and park models—our RV spot was only 20 inches wider than our 8-foot wide mini RV. This, coupled with streets cramped by white vinyl fences made it extremely difficult to back into and park. It took both of us and two other experienced RVers over 1-1/2 hours to get our 8 x 22 foot trailer into a space that measured less than 10 feet by 34 feet (see photo). (But we had no choice as most RV parks in the Phoenix area were full.) The site’s width was needlessly small, between an 8-inch high concrete patio slab (very hard on aluminum trailer wheels) and a recently planted palm tree. Recently added white vinyl fencing and the palm tree (with LV lighting) coupled with cramped, narrow streets made this RV parking place needlessly hard to use. After we finally got our trailer into the space, we discovered that the sewer connection was under the RV as it was designed for mobile homes! Thankfully, a very accommodating employee crawled under our trailer and connected our sewer, but only after going to get two adapters for the unconventional connection. Later, whenever we dumped sewage, we could not open the gate valve completely, because sewage would come up from a second connection way up under our trailer! This site was so small that we had to park our F-150 pickup truck across the street, fifty feet away. And then, to add insult to injury, we were told to move yet another parking space away the next day because the office had forgotten that the parking space we were in was already assigned to someone else. In spite of listing and advertising stating otherwise, the only wi-fi Internet at this resort exists in the office/swimming pool area—and a very weak one at that. There is no wi-fi whatsoever at the RV sites, an expected necessity nowadays. Their web site also states “Large, Level Big Rig Sites” which are a rare find at this RV park. This is our first review of any RV park, out of hundreds nationwide, that we do not recommend.

Very friendly manager willing to accommodate last minute request in off season. Clean restrooms and showers.