Oklahoma City East KOA Holiday — Hotel in Oklahoma City

KOA Choctaw OKC East is the worst KOA Camping experience I have ever had. We checked in over July 4th holiday for 3 days, just so our 3 grandchildren could swim. We rented 2 cabins. Fairly priced. Good location. Bathrooms were clean and convenient. Pool was sparkling clean. Majority of the employees were very friendly. Those are the good things. Here are the bad:

Infestation. Cabins were over run with roaches. Not great on any level.

Pool closes at 8 pm. No other KOA that I have ever been to all over this Nation has a pool closing at 8 pm in the middle of Summer. It’s not even dark or close to dusk at 8 pm! There is no leeway on the 8:00 pm closure. It closes at 8pm ON THE DOT.

Non existent WIFI. None of us were able to log on to the WIFI. When I called and spoke to Jan, she advised me to ask “any teenager.” She said only a teenager could show me how to log on. BTW I’m not computer ingnorant. We gave up and used our data.

Rudeness of Employee. We were at the pool with our kids enjoying a fun afternoon the 1st day. We had our Yeti Tumblers filled with ice water so that the children would not get dehydrated. After about an hour at the pool the KOA Emploee Carroll comes into the pool gate and begins yelling that the containers are not allowed in the pool area. My grown daughters were speechless. He continued yelling at them over and over again about the drink containers not being allowed, as if on a loop. He was doing this at such a frenetic pace that they could not get out of the pool fast enough to remove said containers. My one daughter told him that they were just filled with water, thinking he may have assumed they had liquor in them or something of the like. He then screamed at her that she didn’t know how to read! He yelled “The sign says NO CONTAINERS ALLOWED! ONLY CLEAR BOTTLES!” We were agog! When my daughter told him she indeed know how to read, he yelled back that he never said that! Totally ridiculous in 100 degree weather. So we left and came back with Clear Water Bottles. Carroll came back on his golf cart every 30 minutes or so to glare at us. Meanwhile other people had come into the pool with beers in cans and yet another group had Yeti-like containers, and Carroll elected to not say a single solitary word to any of them. Did his stalking end at the pool? No it did not. After we left the pool and went back to our cabins, he began driving by our cabins and glaring at us there. He would drive by at a snails pace until he got past our cabins, then would speed up. He would make the circle at regular speed then slow back down to glare at us again. This went on for parts of THREE DAYS! In all my life I have NEVER been treated this way at a KOA Campground!! I eventually called to make my concerns known to management and was basically told that “she just worked there, she did not make the rules.” I told her about how Carroll was treating us and she just ignored my issue.

I will NEVER again stay at this KOA, strictly based on the treatment we received from Carroll. He is the rudest, most hateful man I have ever encountered. He has ZERO business being employed in a Hospitality driven Industry. KOA Camgrounds are known for the Family Friendly environment they provide to campers. This experience was not only terribly upsetting to the adults in our group, but for the children, they were distraught over having Carroll basically spying on us for the entire stay. They were fearful and near tears of him and seeing him coming our way on his golf cart.

I would like for the owners of this campground to reach out to me personally and address this most horrible stay at their location. Not a boiler plate response, but...

This is by far the worst KOA we have ever stayed at. The two stars (instead of one) are for what we liked about the experience. Those being: we were allowed to change our reservation to an earlier date due to a death in the family and being moved to a better cabin after the first two were found to be uninhabitable by any person who cares about health and cleanliness. Our first cabin smelt so bad like urine we asked to move. When we were moved we immidiately found numberous roaches all over the cabin. While my husband packed up our stuff i went to the office to get a refund. But we could not settle for a refund to our card that we would get back several days later...we needed the money to rent another place that night. We planned on visiting in two weeks but an immediate family members death brought us to town early and without much money to work with. The ladies in the office explained our situation to someone over the phone and I was told they were instructed "not to give a cash refund". The only other option was another cabin. It was the second to largest cabin I believe. And it was offered at no additional charge since it was not rented that night. I inspected it before our belongings and children were brought in for a third time and exposed to what could waiting inside. It didn't have urine smell or roaches so we elected to stay. However, the floors were very dirty. There was a wrinkled zip lock bag holding sugar for the coffee that said please don't throw away. And it became clear to me why our experience had been so terrible. I believe the cost of that cabin per night is around $165. $165 And the owners have to reuse a snack size zip lock bag? Transferring germs from one guest to another because they are too cheap to come off of 25 cents for a new sugar holder. The pots and pans were what you'd expect to see for 50 cents at a thrift store...of low quality and a lot of the non stick coating scratched off. The blankets looked worn and so did the rocking chair seat (which was also stained). This KOA's owner/management need to seriously invest in cleaning and extermination. The ladies in the office told me they can't keep all bugs out because they are in the woods. Well I live on a 30 acre farm and I've NEVER had roaches, let alone had them so bad that they have no problem crawling right up to ya in the broad day light. While one of the office ladies were on the phone telling whomever about our experience, she tried to trivialize what happened by saying "we thought the first room smelled like dog pee and the second had a few bugs". I made it known that it wasn't just a few bugs...it was roaches and that was pretty disgusting. We did not want to have our kids in there and we did not want to take them home with us. All of this on the heels of losing our family member. It was an...

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