FROM THE PRESIDENT PUTTING MEMBERS FIRST A Taste of Summer
Summer to me means a lot of things, and chief among themmemoriesof campingwhereIgrewup inConnecticut and Georgia. I had some potato salad the other day for the first time in a while and was amazed how the first bite was such a powerful reminder of summer. It seems to me that there are some unique tastes, smells, and experiences that our mind associates so strongly with summer. My list includes things like fresh tomatoes (tomato sandwich anyone?), watermelon, corn on the cob, a hot dog grilled over a charcoal fire, snow cones, the sound of a baseball hitting a bat, any song by The Beach Boys, the smell of a fresh mowed lawn, cookouts with friends and family, hearing a hummingbird buzz by, and walking barefoot along a sandy beach. I am sure there are lots more. What’s on your list? Drop me a line at ccrpresident@coastresorts.com and let me know. We can publish a complete list in a future issue of Coast Magazine. Just in time for your summer travel planning, Coast is proud to announce that we have updated the resort and Good Neighbor Park (GNP) profiles in the online affiliate directory on our website. The profiles now include a large main photo of each affiliate, and for affiliates that have provided us with multiple photos, members can now take a “virtual tour” of each resort by clicking through their photos. We have already collected photos for about 80% of our affiliates and hope to have close to 100% shortly. Above the large main photo is the Coast affiliate number, affiliate type, and rating. Beside the photo is important information like address, phone number, website address, season, and description. As you scroll down the page you will find information on amenities, policies, and rentals conveniently organized in the middle of the page, and the locator map and directions at the bottom of the page. There is also a link for directions to the affiliate using Google Maps. A few words about ratings. Coast is the only membership camping network that provides members with annual ratings of all our resorts and GNPs. Ratings are provided
by the same teams that inspect and rate over 12,000 RV parks and campgrounds each year for the Good Sam Guide Series (formerly the Good Sam RV Travel & Savings Guide). We also take member feedback into account, including member photos, when deciding on whether to keep or terminate an affiliate with low ratings. If you have any type of feedback on one of our affiliates, please email us at ccrpresident@coastresorts.com. Coast makes the investment in these enhanced resort and GNP profile pages, and also in our annual ratings, to give our members the most complete information possible on our affiliated parks and resorts. We hope these new online profile pages will help you select the perfect resorts and GNPs to visit during your travels. As you begin to use these new online profiles, we welcome your feedback on ways that we can make the profiles and our website more useful to you and other Coast members. Email any suggestions you have to ccrpresident@coastresorts.com. We hope you enjoy your summer travels using your Coast to Coast membership.
MARCUS LEMONIS Chairman and CEO Camping World & Good Sam marcusvip@goodsamfamily.com
BRUCE HOSTER President Coast to Coast Resorts CCRPresident@CoastResorts.com
FROM THE PRESIDENT
COAST TO COAST SUMMER MAGAZINE 2019
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