Stella Mare RV Resort

Very clean, quite, well maintained park. Check in was easy. Was taken straight to site location first. After we set up, we checked in at office. Large pool and activities around the park for family. Observation deck overlooked beach and sunsets. You can walk or drive across street to the beach. Back side of park is on the bay side. So you can fish from the pier. This is humid Galveston. Bring some fire ant graduals. A fire ant mound may pop up in the grass. Also some mosquito spray is necessary outside after dark sometimes. Best thing is the park location. Its close to the sea wall, but far enough away there's not as much traffic. We will be back.

We usually stay at city, county and state parks so Stella Mare was quite the treat for us! The sites are pretty narrow, so we didn't have space to put our awning out or sit on the side of our trailer. The hot tub was fabulous and well maintained. We were on the back row of the property and the road noise was pretty bad, but nothing ear plugs couldn't fix. Be sure to bring carrots to feed the horses at the property next door. :)

This place was amazing. Sites were well groomed. Loved having grass and the concrete slab. We didn’t use the facilities so I can’t comment on if they were clean or not.
We walked to the gulf, rode our bikes.
I do think they need to rethink the trash disposal. You are asked to place it outside and that it will be picked up. Well while the trash is sitting there the birds are attacking the bag and taking the trash out. The people collecting it don’t mind it at all. Other than that this place was perfect! We stayed here in January so no issues with bugs at all!!

Stella Mare comes as close to perfect as we’ve gotten. Well organized and run extremely well, an employee meets arrivals and guides to the appropriate site and helps the driver park, highlighting the site amenities.

Stella Mare provides the absolute cleanest, well-maintained power, water, and sewer hookups.

The sites aren’t huge but we've been in much smaller. The grass is lovely but don’t go barefoot! This close to the beach, one is bound to step on a coclebur — these spiny little seeds that hurt when stepped on. Also expect them in the fur of pets.

While the beach is sort of across the road, it’s not really walking distance. That’s one reason why Stella Mare doesn’t quite earn a perfect 5-star rating.

This park is not far from the commercial area of Galveston Island and all of the fun stuff. We love this place and look forward to returning.

The resort was very nice. Concrete pads. Most of the sites are HUGE pull thrus. Just a short golf cart ride across the highway to the beach. The pool was beautiful and facilities were clean and very nice. They pick up your trash for you, and all the maintenance staff was super friendly. My biggest complaint is the mosquitos. No fault to the RV resort of course, but they were the worst I have ever encountered before. My whole family is covered head to toe in bites. It made it extremely unenjoyable to be outside.

Beautiful RV Resort. Clean and sterile, but not for us. the sites are very close to one another. So close that I thought my neighbor's awning was going to hit our RV. That's a little bit too close for us. Very little space on the side of the RV to relax. This is NOT a beach-side RV resort. You have to drive across the highway to get to the beach. I gave it a 4-star rating based on how clean this place was and the amenities that it has.

This rv resort is awesome except for the mosquitoes but you figure that out quickly:) Our site is one of the best ones, it is a back in site concrete pad and when we dropped our patio it faced a huge lawn area, we could see the Gulf of Mexico in the distance and we were close to the jacuzzi and the pool. We had nobody on one side. There is a campground right on the beach that we saw but we were happy with Stella Mare because we did get some weather and the way site 81 is angled we never got hit by the wind sideways. The wind was either coming from our tail or the nose. All the sites here are big and very well spaced. The facilities are super clean. The price we paid was a monthly rate and it included electricity. The wifi was acceptable but you could pay if you needed something more dependable but we never had any issues. They pick up your trash from 8am-4pm. The Galveston State Park is minutes away and a great place to kayak. The beach access is also just across the street and you can drive on the beach. Don't expect, white sand, it is a beige, compact beach with lots of seashells and it is very clean. Restaurants are pretty close about 10 minutes away. Road cycling is fairly easy to maneuver the roads but don't expect any hills it is a flat ride. You must visit the East Beach and walk the jetty and watch the huge ships come in!! The staff is very friendly and professional. If we ever come back to Galveston we will stay here.

The park grounds and staff are awesome. They are all very friendly, and grounds are immaculate.

Site was fine, 25 was a back in next the the horse pasture. I didn’t see a bad site in the place, and all are more than long enough for even the biggest rigs. Utilities all were fine.

Park is a little further away form all the island stuff, but it is fine. Traffics was a little annoying at times.

The issues:
1) In 2019, yes we expect acceptable WiFi. The WiFi was an absolute mess. It did work for a few minutes at a time, but then would drop out. The parks answer was “Call the provider” which is Tengo, who as completely useless. These issues are not endpoint issues, they are network engineered to small for the application issues. Sorry, but some of us do have to work while we travel, and we can’t all just get away with cellular internet...

2) Bathroom Design: There are two bath houses, both with similar design. They are kept very clean, and are fairly new (as it most of the park). Both bath houses also have laundry in both the Men’s and Women’s restrooms. The issue is the very “Exposed” design. The back restrooms had 2 showers, one handicapped accessible, the other a standard shower stall, then a small changing area, quite a ways form the showers. The front one had 2 additional showers and a larger curtained off changing area. In either case, I am just not much of an exhibitionist... Again, 2019, this park is barely a couple years old, the people who designed the bathrooms clearly never used a public shower... Why wouldn’t you just make multiple single stall “who cares what gender” bathrooms and be done with it? And why would you put laundry in 4 places? Make one big laundry room... Just a stupid design all around.

Fix those 2 things, and I’d give them 5 stars....