O'Connell's RV Campground — Hotel in Lee Center Township

My family and I had the chance to stay at O'Connell's RV Campground. We stayed for 5 days and 4 nights and this is our review. When we first arrived to get checked in we arrived and parked right at the gate but there wasn't anyone at the shack and I had to physically park the car at the gate thus blocking this entry way for everyone. Once I parked I had to get out and walk to the administration building to get checked in, I think. There was no sign or anything, letting us know what to do. (This was all due to short staff.)||Once I got into the building, check-in was pretty easy. I told them my reservation name and they took out the map and showed me how to get to my camping spot and gave me the gate code. Other than that no other information was provided to me or my family. This will be very important tid bit of information for later in our review. ||We stayed during the first week of August and I'm not sure if this was a busy time or not for camping but driving to our site we could tell there was alot of people there for camping and the amount of golf carts are over bearing to say the least. It was like a small city with nothing but golf carts zooming around. ||We arrived to our camping spot and setup was a breeze. We had electricity and water in our site and just a word of caution. The electricity and water outlets are right next to each other. We felt this was a bit of a dangerous situation as why someone would put the electricity right next to the water spout. ||Once we got setup, we had sometime to explore the camp grounds. My first impression is this place is huge! It's filled with RVs, motor homes, small homes, and tent camping which holds a lot of people.||There's many activities for the kiddos to do like basketball, volleyball, playgrounds, pools, music stage, paddle boats, mini golf, arts and crafts center, kayak, beach, and fishing. ||However, I'd like to touch upon on our experience. Remember how I said that the campground was packed with people? Well it was near capacity however, most if not all attraction were closed because of being understaffed. ||You wanted to do paddle boat? Nope it was closed because there wasn't anyone available to rent the boat for us. You wanted to kayak? Nope not happening because someone wasn't available to rent out the kayak for you. Interested in mini golf? Ha! Good luck because no one was available to rent putters and balls for you. You can see how we were disappointed and dissatisfied with our time at O'Connell's RV Campground. Oh yeah and you know the market and pizza restaurant that's conveniently setup for all guests to use in the campground? It's a great place to grab snacks and ice. Forget about that because you wanna know why? That's right, you guessed it! It was closed. It makes no sense to me why those things would be closed when the campground is packed with people. The listed hours of the store/market don't even correlate and it was just closed. ||This isn't even the worst part of our experience at O'Connell's RV Campground. The camp ground has a strict quiet hours that begins at 10pm but they neglected to advise us of what was going on at the campground during our stay. Every single night starting at 9pm which ran until about 11:30 pm, people would drive around in their golf carts like it was a parade. Honking, yelling, screaming, blasting loud music, and causing a scene every night when my kids are sleeping/adults sitting around a campfire. There were lines and lines of golf carts. It was extremely frustrating and we didn't understand why security was not shutting this down because of the quite hours. Turns out that it was decorate your golf cart and have a parade weekend. It was have been nice to know about this prior to checking in or even at check in. Nothing was provided to us and there was no advance warning. Now everything made sense to us but we still should have been told about this well in advance. ||The kids had fun on the playgrounds and the beach and the fishing was decent. The beach was very clean and a good relaxing time. All was not bad but I needed to give everyone full warning of what went down. ||We had an OK time at O'Connell's RV Campground but my family and I prefer to be more secluded and on our own. It felt like we were camping at a theme park with none of the attractions being open , it's just not for us. Maybe it is for you and your family. ||The showers and bathrooms were acceptable but could have used a mid-day cleaning but my guess it was due to understaffing issues and a few nights they closed it down at 10 pm and there was no other signs telling us where we could use the bathroom or shower. ||We did take advantage of the laundry mat and that was a nice luxury to have. ||Overall, if we decide to come back to O'Connell's RV Campground, we will not stay on the main road cause it's just too busy and I'll make sure to ask what's going on so there are no more surprises and what will be open and...

This was our first and last stay at this campground. Before booking at any campground I read reviews. The reviews weren't great but it sounded like there were lots a activities for my grandchildren, and it wasn't too far from home, so I booked Memorial Day weekend. We arrived on Friday and were given our site number. We had to pull our 36 trailer off to the side so we could figure out where to go. As we were looking at the map a nice man drove up on a golf cart and escorted us to our site. When we reached our pull thru site my husband said to the man "I can pull it in, but how do I get out? There are two trees close together and a very narrow road to turn on to. This was not a site for a 36" trailer. When we arrived at our new site I noticed that there was no fire ring. There was a maintenance man working at the trailer next to us so I politely asked him if he could get us a fire ring. This was about 3:30 pm. At 6 pm we still had no fire ring, so I called up to the office and was told someone would be right out with one. Around 7:30 pm still no fire ring, so I called again. After the third call a nice man brought us a ring. Saturday we decided to go swimming. We tried Booboos' pool first. It was very crowded but nice because there is an over hang shelter to keep the sun off. We came back to our trailer for lunch and to let the kids rest a little. After lunch the kids wanted to go to Yogi's pool. It was so gross! The water was very cloudy and there was all kinds of stuff floating in the pool. We left there and thought we'd try Cindy's pool. Cindys' pool was just as gross So we headed back to Booboo's pool. It was extremely crowded but it was a relief from the 90 degree weather. Later that evening we went to the Rangers Station for some soft serve ice cream. We stood in line for at least a half an hour. The soft serve ice cream was good. As my family waited in line I went out on the deck , which is in very poor condition. There was a man fishing with his son and he actually caught a chair. yes I said a card table style folding chair. Looking around I noticed Cindy Bears Cottage, which was in such rundown condition, from rotting wood to broken steps. Sunday the kids wanted to go swimming again. As we were getting ready to head down to the pool Matt, a park employee, drove up on a golf cart and told us a transformer had blown and the entire park was shut down. We had no air conditioning no swimming pool and its 90 out again. There is a swimming beach that he told us about so we headed there. The grandkids loved playing in the sand and swimming in the lake. Luckily, Com Ed came fairly quick and was able to restore the power within a few hours. After a late lunch Sunday afternoon we decided to go back to Booboos' pool. It was very crowded and the water was disgusting. After about an hour or so there, Matt came and announced that the pool needed to be cleared out for maintenance. So back we go to the camper and cook dinner. We head back to the Rangers station to find out that they stopped serving ice cream at 8:00 pm because their ice cream machine wasn't working properly because of the power problems. It is like a campground city, filled with golf carts racing all over the park. The rules say no one under 18 can drive a cart, but it is not enforced. Where our site was, was like a freeway. We do not blame the park for the electric issues as we understand stuff happens. What I dont understand is why this place is so run down, the picnic tables at the Rangers station are disgustingly filthy and in need of a fresh coat of paint. The wooden tables are in need of repair. At our site we had a view of, at least, 50 old abandoned trailers. We left Monday to find the main road out of the park blocked by a sheriffs patrol car and yellow tape. We are informed that there was a bomb threat. What we don't understand is why they didn't inform the guests. ...

My family and I had the chance to stay at O'Connell's RV Campground. We stayed for 5 days and 4 nights and this is our review. When we first arrived to get checked in we arrived and parked right at the gate but there wasn't anyone at the shack and I had to physically park the car at the gate thus blocking this entry way for everyone. Once I parked I had to get out and walk to the administration building to get checked in, I think. There was no sign or anything, letting us know what to do. (This was all due to short staff.)

Once I got into the building, check-in was pretty easy. I told them my reservation name and they took out the map and showed me how to get to my camping spot and gave me the gate code. Other than that, no other information was provided to me or my family. This will be very important tid bit of information for later in our review.

We stayed during the first week of August and I'm not sure if this was a busy time or not for camping but driving to our site we could tell there was a lot of people there for camping and the amount of golf carts are over bearing to say the least. It was like a small city with nothing but golf carts zooming around.

The electricity and water outlets are right next to each other. We felt this was a bit of a dangerous situation as why someone would put the electricity right next to the water spout.

There's many activities for the kiddos to do like basketball, volleyball, playgrounds, pools, music stage, paddle boats, mini golf, arts and crafts center, kayak, beach, and fishing.

You wanted to do paddle boat? Nope it was closed because there wasn't anyone available to rent the boat for us. You wanted to kayak? Nope not happening because someone wasn't available to rent out the kayak for you. Interested in mini golf? Ha! Good luck because no one was available to rent putters and balls for you. You can see how we were disappointed and dissatisfied with our time at O'Connell's RV Campground. Oh yeah and you know the market and pizza restaurant that's conveniently setup for all guests to use in the campground? It's a great place to grab snacks and ice. Forget about that because you wanna know why? That's right, you guessed it! It was closed. It makes no sense to me why those things would be closed when the campground is packed with people. The listed hours of the store/market don't even correlate and it was just closed.

This isn't even the worst part of our experience at O'Connell's RV Campground. The camp ground has a strict quiet hours that begins at 10pm but they neglected to advise us of what was going on at the campground during our stay. Every single night starting at 9pm which ran until about 11:30 pm, people would drive around in their golf carts like it was a parade. Honking, yelling, screaming, blasting loud music, and causing a scene every night when my kids are sleeping/adults sitting around a campfire. There were lines and lines of golf carts. It was extremely frustrating and we didn't understand why security was not shutting this down because of the quite hours. Turns out that it was decorate your golf cart and have a parade weekend. It was have been nice to know about this prior to checking in or even at check in. Nothing was provided to us and there was no advance warning. Now everything made sense to us but we still should have been told about this well in advance.

We had an OK time at O'Connell's RV Campground but my family and I prefer to be more secluded and on our own. It felt like we were camping at a theme park with none of the attractions being open , it's just not for us. Maybe it is for you and your family.

The showers and bathrooms were acceptable but could have used a mid-day cleaning but my guess it was due to understaffing issues and a few nights they closed it down at 10 pm and there was no other signs telling us where we could use the...