TRF Campground Wishlist

[Lady Laura]

The main change I'd make, even over running water and bathrooms, is to get the bad element out of the campgrounds.  You know, the ones who don't even attend faire, who play music way too loud, way too long because they're too high to care about anyone around them, who leave their huge piles of trash when they leave and who insist on treating the back wash as a race course.  I HATE that scum!   Let's stamp them out!  

[Muffin]

Haven't been there yet, and am really looking forward to my visit in November... but... my wish is the same as a lot of others.. Running water, please!!!! Please twice.. please please!! 

[*Teach*]

how about larger and more trash recepticles?
I know the other one are styled to look older and all that, but they just aren't big enough
If they had regular dumpsters then maybe there wouldn't be quite so much trash.
I know a lot of it gets dropped on the ground by drunks and such, but most times when I go to drop my trash off I end up just setting it on the pile and hope there is a trash can under there somewhere.

*and free-flowing rum would be nice... as long as this is a wish list... wish big!*

[RenRobin]

My wish would be to go back to must have a ticket to enter the campgrounds.  When that was enforced, there were not as many tweeners just looking for a place to party, and a lot less theiving going on.....

...and would love to see Marigolds again lining the way up the lane from parking.

[PurpleDragon]

As this is a fantasy list, I was always a fan of the suggestion to open a "period" pub within patrons camping.  It could be run by a catering company, offering a handful of dining options (easy stuff like fish and chips, or stews) plus some drinks on tap (beer, mead).  Now that they have the quickiemart onsite, I could easliy see them combining both of these places into a single structure.

I wonder if this one could actually become a reality?  'Twould be nice to have a 'nice' place to sit and eat in the evening after a hard days work inside without having to wait in line to get out of there and it taking an hour to get to town.

[ScoutColt]

I dunno how I feel about shutting out people unless they have a ticket. I run my group and I don't always go into faire because I'm enjoying cooking, or just camping and seeing all of my friends and the general atmosphere of the good rennies....

Altho, it wouldnt exactly be hard to get around anyways. I'd just buy one of those "useable any weekend" tickets" and never use it until last weekend, and then just buy tickets whenever I feel like going in... so maybe it's not so bad.

[PurpleDragon]

Before they started charging fees for camping, you had to have a festival ticket to get into the campgrounds on Friday night.  Now, I always told the guard that I was buying them at the gate and was let through, but those that did not know they could tell the guard that would just turn around and come back the next day. 

Once they started charging for camping, they could not require (technically) you to have a festival ticket as you were paying an entry fee for the camping area.  THIS unfortunately has led to the issues that were really prevalent last season with all those ravers and the rampant drugs and such that happened out there.

[Zaubon]

Then let's buy higher priced festival tickets at the campground gate. Or pay per head to camp and get a discount on tickets at the the gate or something to keep the people that only show looking for and causing trouble out.

[ScoutColt]

Oughta hafta buy a year round camp pass or something. 50 bucks gets your vehicle a permanent doohickey for the year.

[PurpleDragon]

Both of those suggestions are good, however neither one would work. If you are charging for camping, you are no longer allowed to exclude someone, they have the right to be there if they have paid the fees for camping, they cannot be required to do anything more than camp for the weekend.

If TRF would go back to the idea of "Must have a ticket to the faire to camp", we might be able to regain some semblance of control in the campgrounds, but that is not likely to happen as the camping fees are a cash cow for them at this point.

[Fenster]

Both of those suggestions are good, however neither one would work. If you are charging for camping, you are no longer allowed to exclude someone, they have the right to be there if they have paid the fees for camping, they cannot be required to do anything more than camp for the weekend.

If TRF would go back to the idea of "Must have a ticket to the faire to camp", we might be able to regain some semblance of control in the campgrounds, but that is not likely to happen as the camping fees are a cash cow for them at this point.

Then perhaps they should use some of that cash to hire proper security.  If the hooligans start getting arrested that might deter them a bit too.

[PurpleDragon]

Then perhaps they should use some of that cash to hire proper security.  If the hooligans start getting arrested that might deter them a bit too.

There are police officers that patrol the area, they cannot be everywhere, and will do their job if they are aware of the situation.

[Yrose]

How about 2 different priced festival tickets regular one for those that don't camp and ones with $5.00 more that do. You would have to buy the faire ticket with camping privileges to get in. Child tickets could be excluded.

[Lord Dragonspyre]

Then perhaps they should use some of that cash to hire proper security.  If the hooligans start getting arrested that might deter them a bit too.

There are police officers that patrol the area, they cannot be everywhere, and will do their job if they are aware of the situation.

Hence the term "proper security."

If there had been "proper security" at the campgrounds, those idiots would've never gotten that keg tossed into the bonfire, and the drugheads would've been politely escorted off the property wearing bright, shiny new bracelets.

[PurpleDragon]

Hence the term "proper security."

If there had been "proper security" at the campgrounds, those idiots would've never gotten that keg tossed into the bonfire, and the drugheads would've been politely escorted off the property wearing bright, shiny new bracelets.

Trust me, there were plenty of arrests made, to include some by the TABC.  The problem is, like in any city, the cops cannot be everywhere at once.  A Security Officer (Guard) cannot physically detain you, their only duty is to observe and report, they do NOT have the ability to arrest anyone, and if the guy walks off they have to decide if he is worth following after or just leave him go. 

Then again there is the issue of some a$$hat running around telling all these idiots "The cops are coming, hide your drugs", and well by the time the officer gets there, there are no drugs to be seen, and if they are not seen, unless he can smell, or see it, he does not have probable cause to search anything therefore they can go on with their partying as usual until the next "alarm" about the cops coming is sounded.