Santa Cruz-Monterey Bay KOA

So this park was great and a little too crowded. Depended on the day you visited. We pulled in on a Saturday and it was a MAD house. Please everywere and hard to get into place. On Sunday it was quieter and by Monday was super quiet. Loved the week, but Friday night the people all came back with a vengence. Gotta say this crew was super loud. Park tries to remind people to be quiet after 10pm, but some are just rude! Park has a nice small store at the office that has lots of the essentials. A little pricey, but you pay for convienence. Park Wifi was definatley usable, even for some streaming that you are not supposed to do. AT&T was our Router got 3 bars and our phones were 1. Got about 4-5 mb down on the router. Phone service was super spotty. But overall we could work and watch our streaming channels. Would stay here again, but price for the weekends was over the top at $122 with all the noise. Come during the week if you can. :-)

Pool and hot tub closes at 7pm.

I cant see why they charge 150 plus per site per night. The frint desk staff was rude, couldnt tell me where the dog park was, laundry, etc. A flat graveled spot with old picnic table, with graffitti paint on it is what we paid 150 for.

There was one staff member who is worth his weight in gold, Mike. He escorted us to our site when we told him we were confused, brought us wood, and filled our propane. They need to give that guy a huge raise.

If i had kids under 10, this would be a great place. Tons of kids.

Fairly large, spaced out sites for a KOA. During the day, the park can feel pretty hectic with a ton of kids basically playing in the roads, riding bikes, etc. Our first night, the park was quiet. The second night, it was louder, but still not too bad. No partying or anything like that. It seems like they run a pretty tight ship, which is good for keeping nighttime noise levels down, overall.
The park is pricey, but the location is great. Just a couple miles from so many different beach options, and close to Santa Cruz.
They also have a few sites that have their own private fenced in dog area, which I've never seen at an RV park before, and thought was a really cool feature!

we booked this site with a group of friends and per their website they offer group rates. we called 4 or 5 times and they kept giving us the run around about the group rate giving excuses that they had to clear it with another person..:eventually we gave up after a month of trying prior to our arrival. when we pulled up to our site on our check in date (an hour late) there was a maintenance guy working on our site for their neighbors cable, he didn’t acknowledge us at all or bother getting out of our way so we could at least back in! we waited on the roadside for 15 min...then the next day there was an issue with their water and it had been shut off for a bit...the wifi is TERRIBLE it doesnt work at all and on their map they wrote if you try to stream anything you get kicked off for 24 hours...which is silly because i couldn’t even check my emails without waiting for 20 minutes and holding my phone up in different places...this place is way too much money for the bs we dealt with. the spaces are too small to top it off. we will not be back. there are cheaper BETTER places with nicer staff around there.

Start with the positives.....This is a very well run park in a beautiful setting. Nice sites with adequate space. A perfect park for families. The staff is continually cleaning the laundry and bathrooms and wear masks. Manressa Beach is beautiful and a 30 minute walk or short drive. 20 minutes to Santa Cruz and 40 to Monterey.
On the not so good side is the cost In addition to the $120 daily rate are resort fees (most of the resort amenities for kids were closed). For that money, you would hope to get decent wifi ( useless) Would we return? Maybe

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Nice family oriented park. Clean and nice sized lots. Very friendly staff. Since we are new to this we chose a pull through. There were plenty of spots available and the staff helped us pick one with easy access. It came with a nice fire pit and Weber gas BBQ. The park was quiet at night and we only heard road traffic in the morning. Only advice is it looks like one part of the campground has some long term residents. If you want to avoid that stay away from the spots roughly between 56 and 63.

This is a very nice KOA. It's geared to families. Our site was against the botanical park. It was quiet, full hook up (site). (2) dog parks upper is a bit hilly and lower is larger and flat. You pay a resort fee due to the amenities (pool and fun park for the kiddies). They have garbage service and the staff is very accommodating. They have a small market on the premises. You don't need to leave the park! It's close to Monterey, Carmel and Santa Cruz. Close to three beaches (Sunset, Manresa and Seacliff). Phil's Fish Market and good eateries are to the south of the park in Moss Landing. Aptos has a great restaurant in town "Red Apple Cafe" for breakfast.