Donna Genie breaks down the 333 rule RVers use: drive three hours max, stop by 3 PM, cover no more than 300 miles daily. She argues 4 PM check-in is too late and pushes for 1 PM arrival with 11 AM checkout to give staff time to clean between guests.
I was working with a new campground owner and looking over their rules that they were setting up in their point of sale system and their reservation system and I ran into some trouble spots that I think you as a campground owner ought to know and maybe you've heard of this, maybe you haven't. So I'm going to inform you on special rule that you need to know about that RVers follow is the 333 rule. So it is to drive no more than three hours, to be off the road by 3 o' clock in the afternoon and to drive no more than 300 miles. The campground that I'm talking about I looked at and they had a check in time of 4pm that's pretty late in comparison to the industry and in comparison to that three, three, three rule. So I recommended that they change those hours. I will tell you the standard that we see throughout the country. If I had to pick one time is one o', clock, check in, checkout time is usually at 11am so that gives you a two hour window to make sure those sites are cleaned up and tidy. I went around on my bike at 9 o', clock, 10 o' clock and 11 o' clock and by 9 o' clock probably 75% of the people had already hit the road. So people were not usually dilly dallying waiting till 11 to leave. So you're going to have actually a much bigger window than that.
