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| Heritage Cove Resort |
| Reviewer : Heritage Cove Owner |
| From : Pennsylvania |
| Date of review : July 15, 2009 |
| Rating : 10 |
| Date of stay : 7/2009 |
| As owner and operator of Heritage Cove, I would like to respond to the review from Dana Baker. First, I take issue with the accusation of wrongful advertising. The descriptions and pictures on our website are a true and accurate representation of our product. A resort is a place providing recreation and entertainment to vacationers, and our pool, boating, and games available to guests meet that criteria. Mrs. Baker's statement about having to buy everything, would be true only if she was expecting to find that food was supplied. If soap, tissues, paper towels or any linens were lacking she only needed to ask. During her stay, she never reported any problems or issues, and to the contrary, stated that she was happy with everything. I take these reviews seriously and when guests offer constructive criticism it can be responded to with change and improved service. I do not consider Mrs. Baker's criticism to be valid and my only response is to defend the truth. I have read many reviews of Heritage Cove, both on the internet and those sent by mail, and none have contained negative comments, but rather praise for the service and beauty of the park. |
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| Heritage Cove Resort |
| Reviewer : Brenda H |
| From : New Jersey |
| Date of review : July 21, 2009 |
| Rating : 10 |
| Date of stay : 7/2009 |
| We have been staying at Heritage Cove for many years. I just read another review on this site and cannot believe that anyone could have had a bad experience at this place. We usually stay in one of the cabins and have always found them to be very clean and well maintained. The towels and sheets were always fresh and clean, and the staff to be extremely kind. While it is true that you need to bring your own food, we have always found all the cookware and dishes that we needed.
We always bring our 23 foot boat and launch it at the Cove. On the days we do not go boating the kids love to spend all their time in the pool. In previous years we have stayed at other more commercial places on Raystown lake and they cannot even be compared to Heritage Cove.
Over the years we have recommended this place to many friends and family and they have all come back with very positive feedback. As far as we are concerned, if you want to go to a peaceful, friendly, and relaxing place, this is the only place on Raystown to stay. |
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| Heritage Cove Resort |
| Reviewer : Heidi Keller |
| From : US |
| Date of review : July 26, 2009 |
| Rating : 10 |
| Date of stay : 7/2009 |
| What a wonderful time we had a Heritage Cove. From hello to good bye. The owner was wonderful and his wife was spectacular. The luau was wonderful. The owners wife and daughter was in an accident the week before and he still had the party and kept everything in order. The STAFF is wonderful.
As for Dana I am so sorry you had such a bad experience. I have never had one and I have been there for 5 years. As for the cell phone service come on you need to get away and spend sometime with out all the hassle. If the owner had to let everyone use there business phone how many phone calls could he recieve if patrons tied up the lines.
Thank you Dick,Sandy and staff for making our stay at Heritage Cove wonderful. Can't wait to come back again.
Keep up the good work |
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| Heritage Cove Resort |
| Reviewer : MMS |
| From : Maryland |
| Date of review : October 12, 2009 |
| Rating : 10 |
| Date of stay : 10/2009 |
| WOW! We have been camping for years and never have been treated with the kind of personal attention we get at Heritage Cove. My husband is a hobby photographer and the first time we went to HC the campground owner took a lot of time giving us suggestions for places to go. The campers are friendly, a lot of repeats, like us, because once you come here you never want to go anywhere else! Boat launch and courtesy docks are conveniently right there, with no waiting! It's a quiet campground with lots of opportunity to see wildlife...we've seen deer, otter, heron, osprey, bald eagle, and even bears! It's also the only place on the lake with full hookups, including sewer. We tried 7 points and LRResort and won't go back to either. Heritage Cove is much better and nicer. A wholesome place for us to come with our family.
The best kept secret on Lake Raystown!
PS. And we LOVE the fact that our cell phones drop when we are in camp. We go up the lake or into town if we really need to connect with someone. We love that we can truly relax and not have to be tethered to the electronics that rule our lives! |
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| Peaceful Valley Family Campground |
| Reviewer : Anna & Roy |
| From : Aliquippa |
| Date of review : August 17, 2009 |
| Rating : 8 |
| Date of stay : 6/2009 |
| We stayed here for 2 nights during the week to avoid the weekend crowds. It was very peaceful. The kids enjoyed playing in the creek which ran through the back of our campground. They also loved the playground. We did not get to try out the pool because the weather was cool, but we had a great stay. |
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| Yogi Bear`s Jellystone Park / Camp-Resort Quarryville |
| Reviewer : unhappy camper |
| From : Maryland |
| Date of review : June 29, 2009 |
| Rating : 2 |
| Date of stay : 6/2009 |
| This park provided a very mixed experience for us. We booked 4 days/3 nights with 4 other families for a yearly camping outing. Since all of us have children, we steer toward family-oriented parks with kid-friendly facilities and are comfortable paying extra for amenities. Some pros: 1) The small water park was quite nice and well designed; it featured both a fort-like play area and a reasonably large 3'6" deep pool with basketball hoops and a volleyball net. Pool side seating was plentiful. 2) The camp store was large, clean and well stocked. 3) The grounds were clean, and well-maintained (with the exception of the algae-covered and stagnant fishing pond. 4) Craft activities were varied and reasonably priced. Our west-facing site was newer and without mature trees so the mid and late day sun was a bit rough. The sites we booked were designed for popups or tents. However, there were also number of rental cabins nearby. Unfortunately, this area is apparently exempted from quiet hours. Large groups staying there made sleep impossible until after midnight every evening (difficult on families with small children). I never saw a staff member making rounds near quiet hours and, based on the nightly ruckus, I can't believe there is ever any serious effort made to enforce quiet hours. Bathroom and shower facilities were too few and far too dirty. Though I saw a cleaning woman working in one once, I never actually used an acceptably clean bathroom or shower. The floors were dirty and grass covered. Trash overflowed. Dead insects abounded and the facilities lacked hand soap. (One shouldn't have to carry their own soap to wash after using the bathroom.) Free pedal go-carts are available for limited hours during the day, though I was told I couldn't ride one with my boy (even though the large ones were adult sized). Again, inconsistent enforcement allowed many adults to ride, including one who took his cart off the road (there is no dedicated track go-cart area-despite claims to the contrary) careened down a hill, then jumped off the cart to avoid crashing into a camper's new pick up. One of our party brought an inexpensive set of walkie-talkies for the kids. Apparently they (and/or others) were talking on the same (standard public) frequency band that the staff has chosen to use. As we were breaking down our sites at the end of our stay, the owner raced up in a golf cart yelling at the two 11 year olds. He jumped off the cart, grabbed a walkie-talkie and repeatedly yelled "Who owns you!?!" then began berating them about respect. The children were so frightened that they just stood there frozen. Instead of first approaching any adult in the party, he continued to yell at and intimidate the children until I slowed him down. (Or, more appropriately, invited him to redirect his howling at me.) What should have been an easily rectified misunderstanding quickly resolved by mature adults, turned into one of the most absurd displays of childish grandstanding I"ve ever witnessed . Made more egregious by the fact that he was the park's owner! Apparently hospitality and hostility are closer together in his dictionary than in mine. Even after immediately apologizing (though I thought no wrong was committed- we weren't even sure that our children were guilty since they had been playing with the radios for only a few minutes, while "Belligerent Bob" claimed it had continued for over an hour) and assuring him that the children would stop using the radios altogether, he continued to rant and sputter. He informed us that whether our radios were on a public frequency or not, this camp ran on "Bob's Law!" After our group had spent 4 days (and over $1500) at his park without incident, to spoil the entire stay by screaming at a couple small children was utterly inconceivable. There is no water park, swimming pool or any other camp amenity that compensates for the level of discourteous and offensive behavior exhibited by a belligerent proprietor, more interested in exerting authority over trivialities such as public walkie-talkie frequencies than showing his guests a standard degree of common courtesy. This man puts a quality franchise reputation to shame. I would never stay there again nor recommend this park to anyone. |
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| Heritage Cove Resort |
| Reviewer : dana baker |
| From : pennsylvania |
| Date of review : July 8, 2009 |
| Rating : 2 |
| Date of stay : 6/2009 |
| This resort was advertised wrong. It is more like a campground not a resort. The woman that runs the resort is very unfriendly. The cabins are not fully stocked!! We had to go buy mostly everything. They had no telephone access except a pay phone, and they were ignorant about using their phone, they said it was only for emergency purposes only. There is no cell connection where we stayed. The sheets and towels smelled like mildew. And to exchange towels they wanted 1.25 a piece. We paid 1300 dollars for unacceptable customer service. We will never stay here again!! |
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| Little Red Barn Campground |
| Reviewer : K Jones |
| From : MI |
| Date of review : November 1, 2009 |
| Rating : 2 |
| Date of stay : 9/2009 |
| Very noisy, quiet hours not enforced, load music from 8 AM toll 2 AM!
Washrooms clean but only one building for the entire campground. |
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