Garden of the Gods RV Resort — Hotel in Colorado Springs

This is an edited review done after the owners response. This park is probably one of the nicest parks we have been to...and we full time travel with my husband's job. We have been to almost 100 campgrounds. The showers are wonderful and clean, the employees are always present and the ones we have properly met especially Shannon and Max are amazing! They have been super helpful! Honestly they are great! The grounds are super clean we haven't seen any trash at all. Plenty of dumpsters for your personal trash. They fill your propane for you if you have portable ones! There is some construction going on outside the park but they really keep up on keeping the grounds clean. Our neighbors have been awesome and like most of our trips we have made new life long friends. We are in s12 and it's really quiet at night. We explore the area every weekend and really have been having fun! I highly recommend the zoo and the actual garden of the gods park... GORGEOUS views...we will be here until December for this assignment so I will add more later. I would highly recommend this RV park. We have 5 children and they are having a blast. Lots to do and see they are not bored!

My husband originally gave a poor review because I was talked to rudely inside the laundry facility. I was parked next to the laundry door, side of building because there was no parking for the laundry mat (It was marked fire lane so I shouldn't have been there I know this) but I had 4 huge loads of laundry I was dropping off with 2 of my younger kids. We were going to take the car back to the RV and walk back to start laundry (we had been doing this for a week); however, an employee came in as I was setting my 4 loads of laundry down after dumping my purse and told me I needed to move. I told her I was just dropping my stuff then moving. She followed up with "Well sweety you have to move or leave". On that note I was frustrated being called sweety in a lecturing tone. While I was walking out I asked her where she thought I was to park as there were no parking spots available she responded well I don't know but not here. There's parking around the building by the pool she said...In a not so nice tone told her she needed to stop talking to people so rudely it is not ok. I did not swear of say anything mean...I sounded irritated at best. She didn't say anything after that just stared at me. I moved my car which was all the way around by the pool there was one spot left and proceeded to do my laundry. Well come to find out my husband as sweet as he is reviewed the camp poorly as to defend me. I did call corporate as I felt the sweety move or leave comment was not professional. What the owner heard from me was me almost yelling back saying she needed to not be so rude. Why am I typing all this now? Well I wanted to delete the stupid review but it will only let me edit it. So I needed to explain why the owner has the response he has. I had no idea a review was written for me although I love him dearly for defending me😀. I have sense spoke with the manager of the property and told him I would not have written a review but unfortunately I cannot delete it only edit it. I have re-reviewed it as a 5 star because the actions of one employee should never be a reflection of an entire business. People have bad days and it was just that I suppose. Seriously though this campground is awesome and we...

READ THE WHOLE REVIEW! We lived here for 4 years. The office staff has always been friendly and have been well trained to have excuses for the park. However the property is garbage. Just this year alone more than half of the washers don't work. The washers have stained my new clothes so many times and no refunds were ever offered. It's not their fault some how. The water pressure is so poor and the manager and owner knows this. I could never get my dishes clean enough no matter how much soap we used. I lived in K8 most of the time. When it rains my site was always flooded and muddy since it all dirt and rocks. The site next to it is like having a swimming pool at your front door. The lots are so small when it comes to parking your vehicle. We had people's vehicles partly in front of our RV so many times. Now let's talk about the free WiFi that constantly doesn't work. We had to use the employee internet password for the property and set up our own router to get any sort of reception. My neighbors for 2 summers couldn't even use both ACs at a time because the Electric needs fixed and it needed fixed the whole 4 yrs we were there. My rent went from $8k a year and changing to $1100 a month with no upgrades done and the park just getting worse. Out of all 3 managers that were there while we stayed nothing was fixed for such a price raise. The propane is so expensive on property. In the winter we would pay close to $200 light bill at times and atleast $300 in propane. Which is another reason we moved. It's a beautiful location with very friendly staff but definitely not worth the price! Also there is homeless all over. I can't tell you how many times bikes have been stolen or the bath houses are filled with condensation from homeless doing drugs in the bathroom all night and leaving the showers on. Most of the homeless live near the creek right across the street. Don't be fooled by the location. They offer you a place to store your bikes so they won't get stolen but you can only access them during business hours, which is very inconvenient. We stopped taking our dog to the dog park because she was constantly sick. The first manager we dealt with knew it was diseased but all they did was spray it knowing it needed to be totally redone. We also lived on the O row for a winter. The sites in the middle are so poorly done and uneven. Other reviews will tell you that. Now that I don't live the truth can come out. For the summer the front swimming pool was closed the majority of time due to maintenance needed. We also begged for 3 years to have the felt on the pool table to be replaced and we were told This park has way more problems than a pool table. Finally this year they changed it out. Then the guy acted like we should be grateful when it got replaced. The game room is a nice feature but all of the pinball games take your money or malfunction. We finally just stopped going to it. God forbid you asked for a refund on the games. BEWARE OF...

DO NOT BOOK A RESERVATION HERE!

Seriously, do yourself a favor and book elsewhere.

Not in a safe area!

My husband looked at the stars and booked us 3 nights. I on the other hand read the reviews and was alarmed by several of them. I thought, these reviews are extreme and this place simply cannot be as bad as described. Well, it is! We camped two weeks in SD, Yellowstone, and the Grand Tetons only to arrive here and had to stay in a hotel 30 minutes North, where we felt safe!

First, it is smack dab in the center of a town, smack dab. Old run down motels, homeless individuals, residential houses, and pot houses line the street right in front of the turn in for the 'campground.'

Second, it's not a campground, people live here. It's a trailer park, with campers. Not kidding. The manager told me all the workers live there, probably amongst other locals. When I told her I felt unsafe, she said they all felt fine, they live there...

They have a problem with the local homeless stealing, the security guard even said so when we told him immediately upon arrival we felt unsafe and addressed some of the concerns listed in the prior reviews.

RV camping MAY be ok here, but based off others reviews the whole place is a dive. Tent camping, forget it. The tent tow backs up to a CHAIN LINK fence with a walkway behind it..a few trees, a runoff 'creek' and then the MAIN ROAD! Not safe, private, nothing. Girl in the office said chain link has helped curb people stealing from the campers, what?! The tent area is a strip of gravel separated by tint wood fences. This is not camping.

Smells like sewer by the tent area.

I had to call twice, and visit the office twice during my time in CS to get a refund.

They had a domestic violence incident two days before we arrived. Security guard said it was the first incident like it in six months. Oh boy.

They have security guards. What campground has security guards? I have yet to go to one.

The website looks wonderful, don't be fooled! Security and office personnel called it 'Urban Camping.' Online also stated..at least when I booked, that the campsite was among trees, ha, nope. Kuddos to your website design team, A+. But......FALSE advertising all around.

We left immediately after looking at our site and the area. We ended up staying in the Fairfield Inn North. Nice place, great price. Clean and safe. South CS Spring, Exit 141 to 145 or so...I will NEVER be back. Unfortunately to get to GOG or Pikes Peak, both are off these exits.

Also, you cannot see the Garden from the campsite.

Hope this helps save you the pain we had to deal with. Our two and a half week camping vacation ended with us in a hotel and fighting for a refund. We did end up with a refund, but they kept 10% for not cancelling 72 hrs prior. However, canceling was never the plan and when we arrived, it was clear we could not stay. They should have refunded 100%. We were there...