Canton KOA Holiday — Hotel in Canton

Canton KOA Holiday. The silver spur resort||13785 TX 19||Canton, TX 75103||Stayed there Feb 3, 4 and left on 5||This is a nice looking place and we had a site overlooking the pond. It was very nice to sit and watch the ducks and geese swimming by and on our last morning there the ducks and geese crossed the front of our campsite, all of them together looking for food in the grass. It was very peaceful.||I mention the peacefulness because the day before I saw a young boy throwing rocks at the geese and the ducks. ||I went out side and yelled at him to quit throwing rocks at the birds. To this he replied his grandfather works at the RV park and he was going to tell him about me yelling at him to stop trowing rocks at the birds. ||Later, I saw the boy riding in one of the work vehicles with an older man. ||I went up to the vehicle to talk with the person, assuming (correctly) he was the grandfather. I asked if he knew about the boy throwing rocks at the birds. The boy had told him about what had happened and to my surprise he was fine with it. He informed me he had been out earlier doing the same thing and that another person working there would take a pellet gun out and try to hit the birds.||I was told different reasons why they felt it was fine to go out and throw rocks and shoot pellets at the birds.||First, it was because there is an Egyptian goose that bothers the other birds.||My reply was that the other birds can always fly away, and I pointed out to the grandfather that the boy was throwing rocks at the Egyptian goose, the white geese and the ducks.||That changed the reason for it being ok to throw rocks and shoot pellets at the birds to their pooping on the tables at the RV sites near the pond and that upsets people and they complain about the mess. I watched the birds for a good 45 minutes as they were walking in front of the RV sites across from the pond and none of the birds sat on a table.||I suggested that if they did not want to live with nature then they should get rid of the pond, not try to kill the birds. Rocks and especially pellets will kill a bird of that size. That went over like a lead ballon.||I then went in to talk with the manager of the RV park and he felt the same as the grandfather. They want to get ride of the geese and figured that was the best way to do it. ||This place may look nice and a fun place but not for the geese. Know that if you go to this RV park you are condoning their action of throwing rocks and shooting pellets at the geese. For some reason they felt the ducks are ok to be in their pond, I think ducks also poop and may at times sit on a table, but I guess that is all right with them.||The other thing I found so sad about this situation was teaching a young child that it is ok to hurt birds. Again if you go to this RV park you are also condoning...

Park itself is nice but not much shade which is not good in 104 degree Texas heat. Was given a menu at check in for their onsite BBQ restaurant which will deliver to your site. I highly recommend the food there. I’ve stayed at this location before with no problem. However, the most recent stay left a lot to be desired as far as owner response. The park’s quiet hours start at 10pm. Our last night we had to get up at 6am the next morning for an early departure. That night I heard loud music that woke me at 1am. I figured it was coming from the event center but at 2:30 the music and voices kept getting louder. The site across from us plus 2 other RVS traveling together with them were having a huge party with a lot of people and blaring music. They ignored my request to shut it down. I called the after hours number printed on the KOA brochure 3 times which rolled over to a different phone number and I kept getting a message the number dialed was not available. My husband went over to their site angry. 4 guys tried to jump him, a girl yelled we just got married and want to party and it became an ugly scene. We ended up calling the Canton police department because this KOA wouldn’t answer their after hours number. I left 2 voicemails on the front office phone asking we be called back and that I expected some type of compensation because they were unavailable to control their guests. We never received a call. Furthermore, I typically get an automated email from KOA after every stay asking me to rate my stay. Somehow this KOA was able to keep me from receiving that email, probably because my second voicemail said I was not going to give them good reviews. Having worked in tech support, the only way to accomplish that is to go into my reservation and purposely remove my email address from it. I WILL be contacting their corporate office to let them know how horrible the customer service was because deceptive actions just to keep an NPS score artificially high is borderline fraudulent. What’s more infuriating is our safety wasn’t even a concern to them.

As far as the site is concerned, there was plenty of space, fairly level concrete but our site did flood after a heavy rain. No shade so both our air conditioners never shut off.

I expect more out of KOA owners, especially when a returning customer has issues. I will probably be canceling my November reservation and staying elsewhere.

Editing to add I never received a call and although I was going to wait until speaking with someone before deciding to cancel my next reservation or not, I received an email that it had been cancelled. Speaks volumes about how the management or...

Alright, let me tell you about my absolutely ridiculous stay at the Canton KOA Campground, where I nearly got into a fistfight with a seven-foot-tall, half-man, half-mantis creature.

So, I roll in, expecting the usual KOA experience—decent campsites, overly cheerful retirees in RVs, and maybe a raccoon trying to rob me. Everything was fine until nightfall, when I started hearing this weird clicking noise from the woods. At first, I thought, Great, some giant mutant cicada is gonna ruin my sleep. But oh no—this was much, much worse.

I step outside with my flashlight, thinking I’ll just shoo away whatever’s making the noise. Big mistake. Right at the tree line, I see it.

Tall. Lanky. Bug-eyed. More legs than any reasonable man should have.

It looked like Jeff Goldblum from The Fly but somehow worse. It cocked its weird, mantis-like head at me and clicked its creepy little claws together like it was about to ask me for a cigarette. Then, in the most unsettling, raspy voice, it says:

“You don’t belong here.”

Excuse me? I paid for this campsite, buddy! So I did what any reasonable person would do—I froze like a deer in headlights and let out a noise that I can only describe as a deflating balloon mixed with a dying goat.

The Mantis-Man just stood there, tilting his head, probably wondering if I was having a medical emergency. And honestly? I might have been.

Then, in an act of bravery (or sheer panic), I threw the only weapon I had—a half-eaten hot dog—directly at his face. It bounced off his weird bug exoskeleton, and I swear he looked offended.

That was enough for me. I ran back to my camper, locked the doors (as if that would stop a seven-foot insectoid nightmare), and got the hell out of there.

So, yeah. Canton KOA? Great amenities, clean bathrooms, solid WiFi. Just maybe watch out for the humanoid praying mantis that...