Flag City RV Resort — Hotel in Lodi

My complaint, lots of dog poo at our site. That pisses me off! The second we parked my wife began picking up 3 large piles of dog poo that the previous camper was gracious enough to leave us. During set up, I discovered 2 other piles in which I picked up. All the piles were located in the lava rock, around the table, and were fairly fresh.

We also travel with our bulldog, and Flag City RV charges an additional $2 per night for fur-babies. I understand, and I'm okay with the additional charge. However, if you are going to charge extra for pups, the very least your staff can do is check the sites after a tenant with a pet. Five piles of dog poo in a small area is pretty outlandish! This dog was much larger than our bulldog as we pick up after ours.

So whomever stayed in the site prior to us, shame on you! Poor camping etiquette and blatant disrespect for fellow campers and peers. Foolish and disrespectful laziness like that is why limitations and restrictions are placed on pet owners.

The gal at the front desk, not the most pleasant. Being on a personal call while customers are checking in isn't the best form of customer service, and she was pretty off putting.

We stayed in site E9 in our 31C with a slide out, and additional vehicle. The site was pretty level, pull through, easy to access, and all the hookups were in good order. Water PSI was spot on at around 35. A concrete pad for RV and lava rock where there is a picknick table. I noticed that many folks were parked on the lava rock as well.

They have a decent amount of long termers, who all seem to have cats. Kinda weird, cause they're outside, and cats poop and spray all over. Some of the long termers have sites that are pretty unkempt, which takes away from how nice the park is.

It's a large RV park, easy to move around, felt secure, and they even gave a Veterans discount. Right of the I5 and many fuel stations around. Road noise wasn't noticeable, and it was quite.

The dog park is huge! It's in the middle of their solar "farm" and adjacent to the club house. They had two chairs sitting out in the middle. It looks like it is more or less a drain runoff, but any dog person would be impressed with the size. I did notice the "goat heads" though. If you've grown up in the Central Valley, you know those nasty little weeds. Look for the yellow and purple flowers looking like ground cover...and stay away. Those flowers turn into stickers, that are painful, and break off in flesh. Not much you can do but avoid them, and they're pretty much a valley staple. Along the perimeter was safe, but out in the middle of the dog run seems to have a good patch of them.

We didn't use the pool or spa, but it is right next to the clubhouse and dog run. Looked very clean, and I must say that I appreciate the rule that no person under 18 in the spa. Of course, it appears that most of the rules are not enforced or do not apply to long termers.

They have propane to fill up, but the stock of RV supplies, or grocery supplies was pretty non-existent. We forgot a baking sheet and the wife went to see if by chance they had something. She said she looked, and then walked out, simply because they had literally no supplies. However, there is an RV dealer next door, and plenty of travel stops in walking distance for supplies.

Overall I thought it was a very nice RV park. We only stayed one night on our way up north, but would possibly stay again for a stop over.

I would note that the Flying J across the street offers RV parking, and has a dump station. I'd be more inclined to save the 100 bucks and stay there for free for only a stop over. The 5 large piles of dog poo...

We stayed here a few days so we could use the Sacramento airport for a round-trip flight. Located near the corner of I-5 and California Route 12, the campground shares the area with a lot of gas stations and fast food places, and is surrounded by roads on every side, so there is a lot of road noise. The campground is laid out as a set of concentric rectangles surrounding a large rectangle of solar panel installations. Inside the rectangle of solar panels is a grassy open area that fills up with water (to some extent) to form a large pond at certain times of the year, but it was dry during our stay. Dogs are allowed off-leash in this huge fenced-in area, but the two single-door gates that allow entrance to the area are on nearly opposite ends of the enclosure, so guarding those exits from escape-minded dogs would be challenging. We didn’t see a lot of dog owners using that area: most of them walked their dogs along the fenced dirt and bush outer perimeter of the campground like we did. Dog owners should also be aware that there are a number of cats that roam freely throughout the campground.

With the exception of the sites that backed up to the central area, the majority of the sites are pull-through and fairly identical: all of them have concrete pads with a concrete extension to serve as the patio. The rest of the site is covered with large stone gravel. The hookups are all located in a convenient spot about 1/3 of the way from the back of the site and includes a cable hookup. The sites are close together but there’s enough space to put out awnings, though it was fairly windy during our entire stay. Each site comes with a picnic table but no fire pit. We did end up putting a board under one site of tires at our site (E38) to make leveling a little easier. A few sites are designated as wheelchair-accessible

The office is just off to the left as you pull into the campground: it’s hard to miss with the covered drive-through lanes. Next to the office is the pool with a small circular spa, and next to that a building with showers, restrooms, and laundry facilities. Just across the road from that set of amenities is a propane refill station, a dumpster for trash and a dumpster for recycling, and a clubhouse. There are three other dumpsters located near the outer corners of the campground and two other bathhouse buildings with showers, bathrooms and laundry machines.

In terms of cell service, the speed readings I got on my Verizon Jetpack with MIMO antenna the afternoon we arrived weren’t great: after reorienting my antenna a few times, I eventually saw 4Mbps down and 10 up. But on most days, we had decent bandwidth during the morning and early afternoon; downloading web pages or streaming any video became difficult and sometimes impractical during the evenings. The speed test I did with my AT&T phone showed 1.2Mbps down and 1.5 up, but on the few occasions I used it in the evening it seemed a bit faster than the Verizon connection. The campground does offer WiFi (and seemed to have a good number of WiFi towers) but the campground said that the bandwidth would be very limited unless you paid extra so we didn’t even try it.

Even with the bandwidth issues, we would probably stay here again if we were...

DO NOT STAY AT FLAG CITY RV RESORT!! We have stayed at a lot of RV parks and this one has huge management issues! Since we were staying for 28 days, they had assigned us to a site with the long term RVers. I have always enjoyed meeting people whether they are long term or short term. The park charges a fee for each dog you bring with you and since we had 2 indoor cats, we were not charged a pet fee. Since I was not using their HUGE drainage field that doubles as a dog park, I understand why they charge for dogs. However, they have lots of feral cats running around the park. When I complained to management, they said they have no control over the feral cats. My cats were getting defensive inside my RV when the feral cats came over to my site. Within a week, I found the nearby RV neighbor, Heather, and her 4 kids along with the hired park staff feeding the feral kittens and cats right next to my RV (2 inches from the side of my RV) on my site. I scolded them and Heather swears this was the first time. Neighbors confirm that Heather and kids have been are feeding the feral cats for some time. The feral cats were spraying my wheel covers, outdoor furniture and clawing up everything in sight. I found all 5 of the feral kittens and mama cat taking residence in my engine compartment! I was furious! This was out of control!

I managed to grab one kitten that was sick and his face looked like it had some sort of disease. I stuffed him into a cloth grocery bag and marched down to the front office requesting the manager. I handed her the bag and told her that I believe this is yours. She was horrified when she realized she was holding a bag with a sick feral kitten. She kept looking over at the side office, the owner comes out and claims he has no control over the feral cats. I left the office with the manager holding the bag with the sick kitten. 10 minutes later, I watched the hired park staff hand over the same sick kitten, the same one I had just taken to the office, to Heather’s kids. Other Rvers tell me that there was a Rat problem in the RV park, so the owner acquired a couple of cats from the shelter to solve the problem of the rats. He did not vaccinate them nor spay/neuter these so called feral cats. Mama cat has had 3 litter of kittens over the winter and the owner has done absolutely nothing! The owner created the problem and is not taking accountability.

I had already paid for 3 more weeks to stay in this awful RV park and I was not going anywhere! I cleaned up all my outdoor furniture, put them away and I found a spray that cats do not like smell of. I sprayed that all around the border of my site, around my RV, wheel covers and engine compartments. I kept my windows closed to keep my cats calm and I was counting the days to departure date. I had decided to stay quiet until I left to voice my issue with this owner and his park online.

DO NOT STAY AT FLAG CITY RV RESORT!! Who knows what diseases these cats are spreading along with cat poop and cat spray smell everywhere! BAD...