Hollywood Casino RV Park

March 23, 2009 – 9:43pm

Does this sound familiar to you? Hollywood Casino RV Park. We were here on December 10, 2008. Gosh, so so soooo long ago. The good ol’ days. Well, we are back. Again. Well, needless to say that I don’t have to take any pictures of this place. You can take a peek at my previous blog posting of  this place via here. The place looks the same. The RV Park looks the same. The casino shuttle looks the same. And the casino looks the same. The only thing that is NOT the same is the price. HA – they raised the price of their RV Park sites on March 1st – they must of seen us coming.

On December 10, 2008, (including all taxes and a 10% discount from my Good Sam Club Membership) the total price was $25 dollars a night. When we checked in today, she found our previous reservation from December. So when she quoted us the new price of $28.87 a night including my Good Sam Club Membership, I asked why we couldn’t get the price we paid for when we stayed here three months ago. She said that the price went up. RV manufacturers are going out of business like dominoes, fuel costs finally went down, and they are raising their prices here??

Last night we were in Kinder Louisiana which is 270 miles away from here and we paid (including all taxes and discounts) $17 bucks. We should of stayed there. Gosh, I sound so cheap sometimes, ha ha ha! BUT I have an excuse! I am an apprentice of being retired and if I’m going to live on a fixed income someday, I’m going to try to hang on to every penny I can. I mean, I have other costs to worry about, diesel fuel here is $1.89 a gallon, I’ve got the buffet smell seeping throughout the 2nd floor of the casino trying to get $19 dollars out of me, and the darn casino alone has got 1/2 my saving account in their slot machines and this RV Park is going up 3 bucks!!!! I can’t afford that!!

Okay, of course, I am laughing to myself while I write this, but the fixed income statement is true, I’ve got to find ways stretch that potential social security dollar I’ve got coming my way in a few years. “A few years” – I laugh! Oh, and I laugh because when I finally do retire and collect my big whopping social security check. A social security check will be thing of the past.

Okay, let’s get serious here. We are parked here and set up for two nights and it might be more than that if the weather gets worse. We are suppose to have heavy rain storms moving in on us all this week. So we might be STUCK here for a week! Stuck here next to a casino! Don’t bother saving me *Big Big Smile*

Tomorrow we are going to take a day trip to Biloxi to check out those casinos and seeing what’s going on in town. I overheard someone in the casino tonight saying that the French Quarters in New Orleans is shut down, hmmmm, got to find out what’s up with that tomorrow. Other than that, it was a nice and easy day today. Thanks for checking in on me and have a great day!