Jolly Roger RV Resort

Friends planned a spur-of-the-moment two-day get-together in Marathon for Feb. 28 through March 1 (3 nights). We were all snowbirds a few years ago, living on boats in Boot Key Harbor for four winters. This year, my husband, two small dogs and I were in our RV. We'd contacted several RV parks. Everything was full -- or very expensive. We were extremely lucky to get a site at Jolly Roger just two weeks before the reunion. It was a new park to us. We were familiar with other RV parks near Marathon with crowded sites which were just a place to park. We thought that was what we were getting until we actually saw it.

Jolly Roger was a great surprise -- clean, neat, well maintained, well organized, attractive, with lots of activities there or nearby (Dolphin Research Center, for one). It is a destination itself. There is a large Tiki hut area near the beach and a tiny marina for fishing boats, a pool, a Bark Park, nice restrooms/showers, a pool and a laundry with new machines we didn't use. They seem to have planned gatherings weekly, like a wine and cheese social.

Site size is relative. We were in an Interior site (#61). It seemed a reasonable size to us in a hugely popular area. Our dogs chose this trip not to be friendly with other pups, so we mainly walked them on the grass near the entrance.

Cost is relative, too. This is a higher daily rate than we ever paid, but this IS the Keys in the high season. We were looking at paying twice as much at other parks (if they'd had an opening) for not as nice of a place.

We realized how lucky we were that they fit us in when our neighbor told us he'd called 700 times in order to book his site. He said to persevere.

We wish we'd been able to spend more time there, but left each morning to be with our friends. If life takes us back to the Keys, Jolly Roger is where we will try to stay.

We stayed twice. Once for a week in December and then back for three weeks in January. We totally fell in love with this place. We stayed in Interior Plus sites, and, the Seawall and Interior Plus sites are the ones we’d choose when staying again. This is a big snowbird destination and we met the sweetest people that have been coming to this park every winter for many years.

The office will accept mail/packages and the campground has a laundromat available. Laundry is a bit pricey, but everything is in the keys, so it was expected. There is a wonderful swim area along the seawall. We saw lots of birds, fish, stingrays, jellies, and even a few dolphins and nurse sharks.

Cell service was great for remote work and we had no issues staying connected with AT&T and Verizon.

This place is amazing! This was our first time to any of the Florida Keys. The location of this park was why we picked it. We watched the sunset every night and this place beats Mallory Square in Key West any day!! Having the gulf water right outside our site we never once went to the pool. The beach area is great for laying out during the day and taking in the sunset at night. I never wanted to leave!

WiFi was strong, phone service was great. We had no issues with bugs due to the constant breeze. We saw looks of sea life snorkeling but bring your water shoes because it is rocky.

We stayed here for 6 nights along the sea wall. We can’t recommend this place enough. Staff was great and location, location, location. Being in the middle of the keys was great. It wasn’t too far either direction to go explore. The campground has great ocean access and we fished and kayaked.

Sea life along the wall was great. Dolphins, manatees, Rays and tons of fish. I could ramble on and on about this place.

The WiFi was strong too.

My husband and I decided last minute to take a trip to the Keys in February.
We couldn’t find any campgrounds that could give us any amount of time other than 5 days in a row.
Jolly Rogers worked with us and found 11 days at there site. We loved it so much there that they were able to keep us for anther 11 days by moving our site a couple times. It was a little inconvenient but well worth moving to the next site. Each time our view was better.
Jolly Rogers was clean, filled with activities and a very friendly place.
It’s our new gem to revisit.
I would definitely recommend this campground. Call way ahead for accommodations .

My husband and I just purchased a new RV and were very excited to take our first trip to the Keys. We had a lot of difficulty finding a campground. When I called Jolly Rogers they went out of their way to accommodate us.
Check in was easy, the accommodations and amenities far exceeded our expectations.
We loved it so much we were able to extend our stay, once again thanks to the staff at Jolly Rogers.

When we arrived we were greeted by the office and given a list of things we were not allowed to do.
We followed an employee to our assigned site where we discovered that there was not enough room to back out 25 foot trailer into the site. I am experienced and can back up a trailer quite well. The park employee had to use a tractor to put our trailer into the very tiny space. There was no room to park our tow vehicle so we had to park right on topo of the next site's concrete pad. When someone showed to the site next to us they couldn't put out their awning because our truck was in the way.
The park was very full and there was very little space between campsites.
\Considering the premium price we had to pay for this park I felt we should have at least gotten a site that was longer than our trailer. The wifi service was slow and not enough bandwidth to use our streaming TV service. The cable service had only 8 stations.