Magnus Park — Hotel in Petoskey

I'd like to think it's normally great. I've only been here 30 minutes... The negative check list hasn't stopped 12 hours later. The campsite I booked, 2 weeks ago, for memorial day weekend along with the 6 other comparable sites were completely under construction so they had to find me a different site. Luckily for me it still had the lake view. We pulled in early so we could nap before starting our day and that's not going to happen with all the construction noise. Did the website mention this, NO! I brought my dogs and gave them baths before, thanks to the construction I now have to rebath them before I can let them in the camper. The entire campground is a mud pit at the moment. And then to ROYALLY TOP THE WEEKEND OFF, I bought $25 worth of pre treated campfire wood and the campsite they HAD to move me to does NOT ALLOW CAMP FIRES!!!?!?! What the actual fuq!?! Did the website say that, NO!!!!! There are no other open campgrounds on lake Michigan within 50 miles (which is $30+ in gas), to say I'm aggravated is an understatement. I will say the woman working the office was the best at trying to solve my issues but there has been no happy resolute. The "beach" is All rocks, does the website say that, NO! I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS CAMPGROUND FOR ANY REASONS. Normally I would demand a refund and go elsewhere but it's Memorial day weekend, everything in Northern Michigans LP is BOOKED. That's why I booked it weeks ago!

It's now 12 hours later and sunset, which was great, luckily I brought tennis shoes, the rocks are painful in sandals. The noise level of the hospital directly behind us is absolutely ridiculous, it sounds like a wind tunnel at the North end of the campground. Took the dogs for a walk around the park and discovered a hellaciously bad smell at the south end of this campground -_- seriously?! Yes, there is a waste treatment center constantly burning the smelliest of gases. My wife and I are absolutely perplexed on why someone(s) thought this would be a great location for "enjoying" the outdoors so much that they put a campground here.? At this point we're attempting to find a different campground for the remainder of the holiday weekend after we get a refund. This...

We were in the front row. I picked that site so we could lookout on the water which was beautiful. We ran into so many unexpected issues with this park however. It didn’t take us long after getting set up to see we had no fire pit. How do you camp without a fire pit? We brought it to the staffs attention and they were nice enough to go and get a portable one for us to use. When you look on the website it says fire pits what it should say is some sites have fire pits since the whole front row is without them. Next when we went to plug in we were faced with only 50 or 20 amp service. Again no mention on the website that if you are not set up that way you will need an adapter. Luckily Meijer had one so we eventually were set. Then as we were sitting there enjoying the beautiful weekend we kept seeing tanker trucks continuously driving up and down the road and the nice fresh air had a distinct smell of sewage. Sure enough right down the road is a sewage plant and they spent the whole weekend hauling sewage out stirring up the smell it was much worse at night when the air was still. We couldn’t open windows in our 5th wheel because you constantly smelled poo. Then lastly if you are looking to be on the water where you can relax on a beach you’re in the wrong spot. There isn’t a beach only rocks not small pebbles, rocks. All in all we were determined to have a good time and we did but it definitely wasn’t because of...

The Park itself is nice, but the service is terrible. I lost my wallet at the park and someone was kind enough to turn it in for me every time I would call or leave a message no one would respond. When I was actually able to speak to someone to see if they could send it to me because I live for hours away, he said it was "out of his area of expertise." Ann that he would have to ask his manager, but then no one got back to me. So my boyfriend drove four hours to go get it and no one was there. He called multiple times and no one answered. He called the city and they sent over a retired ranger to help him get into the office to find out and it wasn't there. Th hey had to call two other gamers to figure out where it was. Turns out one of the tanners gave it to the police and didn't tell anyone. When he got to the police station, they had already sent it to me. Glad to know my wallet will be here soon, but I hate that they lack the communication skills to tell me that before sending my boyfriend on a wild goose chase and an 8...