Big Sandy Campground — Hotel in Whitehouse

The place deserves a 0 rating, 1 star is very generous. The owner is obviously an achoholic and is very rude. We paid for 7 nights and ended up leaving after 3 when the owner pulled up to my site cursing (in front of 4 small children) and could smell the achohol with every word out of his mouth. He says he didn't realize my group was so big with so many kids and we cost him business even though only 2 campers came all weekend and both stayed so there was no loss of business and if anything with all the visitors I had come it made him money. Then he started about my dogs who of course is barking at him as he pulled up right next to their pen saying he would shoot them cause it's no place for dogs (even though I called ahead and asked about dogs and told him I had 3 dobermans which are well behaved unless you pose as a threat as he did pulling up cursing at me for no reason, even payed for each one of them to be there and he was the one that checked me in)

The campground itself is so neglected, the grass was very long, the playground was horrible with one of the thing for kids to play on was a cement drain that was falling apart, very unsafe imo. The store (if you want to call it that) had 1 shelf of stuff to purchase with nothing useful really for camping, they sell no bait even though they advertise a fishing pond and if you want ice he will only sell you 1 bag at a time "because he has to drive and go buy it himself" is what he told me.

The swimming pond is not taken care of at all....the roped off section is pretty mucky except for a strip in the center of area....while letting the grandkids swim I met a guy who was there with his granddaughter who claims he use to run the place a few years back and took care of everything but since he quit they let the place go and even warned me about an area of the roped off section to swim in being infested with a bunch of leaches.

Also advertises that he has 200 camp sites although this might be true, I would say there's only about 20 sites because the rest are ppl that live there year around and seasonal, it almost looks like a trailer park more than a campground if you go deeper in the grounds.

I highly recommend staying away from sandy beach campground, not family, kids or pet friendly....might have to have a alcoholic anonymous card...

This place deserves 0 stars to be honest.

This place is a joke. I went on Friday and paid for 4 nights and he asked me if I had any dogs. I told him no and he said “Good, because if they bark, you’re out of here.” There was a guy paying in front of me, he asked him the same question and didn’t even say anything about the dog that was staying with them.

The swimming pond was horrible, playground is falling apart, bathrooms are really disgusting.. the one stall had a SMALL shower curtain for the door and the other stalls don’t even have locks on them anymore. The grass was super long in most spots and the pot holes are bad.

Fast forward to Monday evening and the old man comes out of nowhere with no warning on his gator and goes off on my aunt and uncle about their dogs. Yes the dogs bark, but usually at cars that would go by slow or other dogs/people they didn’t know. (they were in a fenced area or in the camper) He started cussing and screaming, threatening to shoot their dogs. Goes on about how my uncle is foul mouthed, yet my uncle didn’t even say anything, it was all the old man. My kids were right there and so were my little cousins.

This place is definitely not dog or kid friendly.

WOULD NOT RECOMMEND IF YOU HAVE...

When we arrived the grass at our site was in need of a trim which they did after we asked. There wasn't a picnic table but we just brought one over from a nearby empty site. Everyone was very friendly and our family of 6 had a great time. The natural beauty of the lakes are amazing and offer fishing and swimming. There is a big play area for the kids with swings, climbing, and forts all surrounded by sand, the only downfall is that there are poker plants growing in all the sandy areas, the kids kept stepping on them and whining as they hurt and have to be picked off, eventually they learned to avoid them. The bathroom/shower are nice, though you have to push a button every few minutes to keep the water going. Bring a camera, it's a...