Jellystone Park™ South Jersey — Attraction in Monroe Township

We have been coming to Hospitality Creek for many years and until this year, It would of had a five star across the board "BUT" one employee ruined that quick and disrespectfully. I was riding on my personal vehicle scooter which is street legal and my form of transportation that I was using since Friday to go to Walmart and other stores. It's now Sunday and she sticks her head out of the guard booth yelling at me across the parking lot telling me I cannot use that here. Taking the consideration it is memorial Day weekend and there's a lot of people whom are camping and the guard booth is roughly 75 to 100 ft from the guard booth to where I parked my scooter and when she screamed every person that was standing up front turned around and looked so not only was I embarrassed I was also disrespected at the same exact moment. I had been going camping here with my immediate family, friends and usually 3-6sites we reserve a year in advance just so we can attempt to get the sites that we want because we know that they are always beautiful and clean and it was a great place to camp. Also since we've been coming here last year One of the security guards told me that I can't ride my scooter after dark because it didn't have lights Said it very respectfully and said it very nicely So I went out and purchased headlights tail lights blinkers made it completely street legal and is what I usually would drive around the campground and around this surrounding areas to run errands and didn't think that a 40-year-old man on a scooter would offend anybody especially when I was doing 3 mph pulling up to the store to grab some ice. So I went into the store and purchased some ice and got back onto my scooter and she yells at me again Im not allowed to ride that hear mind u my scooter weigh to 100lbs , rode it back to my campsite and she sent a golf cart and another she drove followed me back to my site. She had a terrible attitude never approached the situation with any respect or any reasonable solution and because I had 20 lb of ice and a scooter I rode my scooter back parked it put the ice in my cooler and here she is telling me we're banned. For the price of this place I will never come back anyway especially being disrespected and mistreated the way I have today The old owners treated everyone with respect and always had a reasonable solution to every problem now the way I was treated I will never come back to this campground whether I was banned or not there was no questions there wasn't any conversation it was no I cannot ride it and that is not the way it should of been handled. Everyone who stays here spends good hard earned money on this campground for the days that their here that there should be some sort of respect between the people that work here and the people that came here.There was none of that completely disappointed. And top it all off before she mentioned it I was banned she also said the prices are so high because they like to keep the riffraff out basically calling me trash to my face and that I was not worthy of camping at this campground. Disrespect was the start of the conversation and disrespect is what preceded throughout and disrespect was the way it was handled. Never again I understand rules and how they're followed I work very hard for what I have and what I do I need my family loved this campground, especially with the amount of seasonal friends and friends we've made throughout times of going there but like the same goes it only takes one person to ruin it for everybody and that's just...

I stayed in the garden state cottage. I was told that I could not check in earlier than 4PM, which was a bummer. Check out is at 11AM. The cottage holds up to 8 people. The cottage was equipped with one sofa and 3 queen size beds. 2 were at the top and 1 was in a room which had its own drawers. Among those, there was a stove, fridge, TV and a dinning table. Then cottage was clean. The kitchen was equipped with plates, pots, pans, stainless steel utensils, cooking utensils and cups. The kitchen had dishwashing soap. The bathroom was equipped with a bathroom curtain and paper toilet. All the beds had pillows, except the sofa. Outside the cottage, we had a grill and a section were we were able to make s’mores. While I was glad the cottage was well equipped with these items, the website said that pillows had to be brought, which to be honest, I prefer to bring my own but that wasn’t accurate as my cottage has pillows. This was my first time and asked a few questions to receptionist Kelly who made my reservation. Let’s start with saying that she wasn’t pleasant. She did not have patients and I did not even get to finish asking her much questions before she began to tell me to look at the website as if she was flustered. When I asked her how many beds, she told me the wrong sizes of the bed and gave me the wrong amount of beds. I didn’t bother to ask her anything else and trusted that the cottage could hold up to 7 people. The prices were ridiculous, $416 per night. This location has a small arcade. Most of the games were out of order or were eating up my coins and did not work. There were only a total of 13 arcades games, with a pool table and a tennis table. The tennis table did not have the equipment and 5 of the arcades games were not working. The arcade games looked old. The pool was okay, nothing fancy about it, just a regular pool you’d see anywhere. The store is small and barely had anything. What made me decide not to come back to Yogi Bear was the cottage I slept in. Personally, I don’t ever want to sleep on the top bunk. The cottage does not have a bunk bed but they have instead created two top bunks with stairs on each side of the room. There were mosquitoes, roaches and spiders. I banged my head and leg just trying to get comfortable when laying down. I had no choice but to sleep here to accommodate other older families that came with me on this trip and my family needed to sleep downstairs on the first floor bedroom. The cottages should have all its beds on the bottom floor. I rarely slept as I kept killing the bugs. I felt super uncomfortable. I heard about Yogi Bear from a family friend and I wanted to come here as they have great activities like boating, swimming pools, bouncy house section inside the pool and out in the sand, along some nice playground. They also have a basketball court, baseball court and a volleyball court, but I need proper sleep, bug free. If you are someone who doesn’t mind having bugs around, then this is yours spot. Overall, I enjoyed the activities which is why I gave it a 3 star but what I really wanted to give it is a 2.5. I’m only giving it this score because my children somewhat enjoyed it, but even they lost sleep because of the bugs in the bedroom sections. There was a lot I needed to bring to this cottage and it just wasn’t worth it. I had to throw pillows away I brought because of the bugs....

We recently came back from Jellystone South Jersey with my 3 little ones (5 and under), and as a family that has never gone camping before, we were so pleasanly surprised. We stayed in the garden state bubbly, and couldn't believe how clean it was. It seemed so new and upkept so well. It came equipped with everything we needed, and was a great size. The ceilings in the loft are LOW so careful to any adult that climbs up there. The bathroom is small, and could definitely use more shelving. There was a perfect place for more shelves about the toilet, and was surprised that was already there. There was just no place to put our toiletries, but only a small issue. The kids loved our hot tub, especially since the pool didnt open until 11am which was kind of late when temps were in the 90s. It seems EVERYONE rents golf carts, and its a lot of walking if you didnt have one, and it was fun cruising around the property (5 mph, they are set to VERY SLOW). It was fun driving around to see the RV neighborhoods, and the set up that the seasonal RV'ers set up. My kids were excited to do the activities but I have to say there were lacking. When we saw "design your own super hero cape" - my 3 boys were so excited, and when we arrived it was a piece of coloring paper with an outline of a cape that they can color. They were so disappointed! Each activity started at least 10 minutes late, and were run by less than enthused teenagers. I understand it was the end of the summer, so they were probably tired from running the same activities, but it was our first time there and it wouldve been good to see some enthusiasm when reading a night time story, sitting with Cindy Bear. The pool and splashpad area was perfect for our kids, so we spent most of the day there, since the activities werent a highlight. The ice cream shop was delicious - a great selection of flavors and very reasonable prices! It was fun to get ice cream/ices on a hot afternoon. The mini mart was however, lacking any type of "groceries". I went looking to purchase coffee creamer, and the refrigerator section was completely bare, and the young worker had no idea where all of the groceries were or if they would get restocked. I thought that was a little odd, but there was a Super Walmart about 4 miles up the road, if you did need something. The game room/arcade was a bit of a joke as well, as 75% of the games had an out of order sign on them. Not sure what the issue was, but again my kids were excited to go to the arcade, only to have about 3 out of 8-10 games working. The most disappointing part of the 5 day trip was only seeing Yogi Bear once. My kids were "bear chasing" - there were several opportunities throughout the day to see Yogi, Boo Boo and Cindy Bear. It was the highlight of their day - we did the pledge and excercise every morning, we did story time at night, and hoped to see them at an activity in the afternoon. My kids felt they were in the presence of a celebrity when they finally saw Yogi on the last night. And all of the characters were great with my kids, and really played the part, so I was thankful for that, but was hoping Yogi would be around more than he was. Overall we had an amazing time, and the little things were minor in the scheme of the fun our kids had. Definitely look forward to checking out other Jellystone...