Miami Everglades RV Resort - Thousand Trails

Stayed here Nov of 2021. Catching up on reviews.

Site type: Pull-through, FHU, 50 AMP.

THE GOOD
Office/Store: Office staff is really nice. Good assortment of items in the store for camping and grocery section.
Location: Gas, groceries, and restaurants nearby. In the middle of lots of farms, so no shortage of produce. This park is also really close to Everglades National Park, which is nice. There really is not much other option for RV parks other than this one, really.
Maintenance: Clean and maintained well enough.
Facilities: The laundry was well-maintained and worked as expected.

COULD BE BETTER:
Sites: All grass. Not really level.
Sites: I would not suggest getting a site near the office, because there is always a strong sewer odor in that area of the park.
Buggy: Get your bug spray ready if you want to sit outside at night.
Wifi: Nope.
Cell: Connectivity is not great here. But, good enough for calls and light work on hotspots.

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This was our second time staying here because it’s in such a great location in relation to the Everglades NP! We enjoy staying here a lot, it has some nice amenities (pool, hot tub, dog park, walking trail, bingo, mini golf)! We wish some of the amenities would be open longer like mini golf, pickle ball, etc. Overall it’s a great campground and we will definitely stay here again!

At this time we have been unable to use our water to do dishes for several days. We are under a boil alert. You have to boil to use it even to brush your teeth. The pool is not heated and this was the 15th day out of two months the heater hasn’t worked. The place smells like a sewer backed up and always does. However I had four days we were unable to use the sewer.

Pros
-location, close to Miami and the Keys
-amenities: great pool and mini golf, nice 1 mile loop walking trail, basketball, shuffle board, pickle ball
-Staff very friendly
-beautiful laundry facilities

Cons
-30 amp w/ low voltage
-sites too close, not level
- sewage line far, needed extension
-lots of nicer empty sites not available to us for some reason

I would stay again due to the location, but I’d stay one week at most.

This property looks great online. The amenities here are nice and the landscaping is good. This is definitely a good place for big families with lots of children. The descriptions of the types of sites are a bit confusing. We didn’t realize our site didn’t come without sewer or we would not have booked it at this price. We stay many places without sewer but not for this premium price out in the middle of farm land. WiFi is an additional charge and you park on grass. Also the site states “ many come with picnic tables and concrete patios”. Non of the ones in the area we were in had a patio. They give you a five page packet when you check in with a long list of “no no’s”. It’s three times as many rules here as any other place we have stayed. For example you can’t use your fire pits but you can rent one from them. A bit off putting upon first impressions. The trouble with having such a long list of rules is you need to Enforce them. This campground picks and chooses when to enforce them. Noise at all hours, junky long term tenants with stuff all over the sites. But you are warned that everything come with a fine when you arrive. The water was shut off during our stay with no notice and the office could not be bothered when inquiring about duration. This feels like an overreaching HOA with bad management. We were testing this property to see if Thousand trails was an option for us. So far that’s a big no.