shannonneumann

This KOA is very close to I-75, and has continuous highway noise, day and night. The actual amenities are OK, but I just can't get over how noisy it is. Water pressure is good, and WiFi is reasonably fast (even though you have to pay extra for it). Just here for an overnight passing thru, and chose it for convenient access to I-75, but likely won't come back.

The sites themselves are rather close together, so it has a bit of a gravel parking lot feel. But, it is very quiet, especially given the proximity to major roads. The laundry and bathhouse were very clean and the laundry was very reasonably priced. There appeared to be many long-term residents, but this did not in any way detract. It woudn't really be a destination we would have picked, but it is a quiet, convenient place to stay if you need to be in the Indy area, as there aren't a lot of good RV park options nearby.

We picked Coe Landing due to being close to Tallahassee, but was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. Due to arriving a day earlier than planned, we ended up in site #5, which turned out to be a great thing. #5 is the biggest site in the campground, is a pull-thru and had more than enough room for my truck and my wife's SUV. With a 34' travel trailer that runs 38' from tip to bumper, the turns at the ends of the campground are a little tight, but manageable. It would be really close if there were vehicles parked at the sites, which there were not when we went to leave.

The power is only 30-amps, so I couldn't run my electric heaters AND use electricity for the water heater, but that's a minor gripe. Also, no sewer hookups, so had to drag the 'poop wagon' over to the dump station. Again, a minor gripe, and being able to use campgrounds like this one is precisely what we bought the portable tank for.

Being well outside of the city, Coe Landing is very quiet. We had a mostly open view of the lake from our sliding doors, and with the fantastic weather we had this week, it was a serene, enjoyable place to stay.

The campground WiFi was a pleasant surprise, as many places like this don't offer WiFi at all. It was adequate for my work needs, and I spend a fair amount of time on video calls via Slack. It's certainly not the 50Mbps I get on the fiber at my house, but it was good enough that I didn't find myself scrambling for a Starbucks at all this week. Caveat: the campground was nearly empty the whole time, so if it fills up, I'm sure the WiFi speeds suffer as well.

The listed daily rate reflects the monthly rate, as we booked the month, and left early. That was more cost-effective than booking the weekly rate.

We were here for 3 weeks. It was quiet and MOST of the staff was friendly. We had a shaded site so even when the sun came out and would heat the day up, the RV stayed cool enough we usually didn’t have to leave the air conditioning running. My only complaint was that the sprinklers come on far too often (3-4 times A DAY) and every time they came on, they would get the entire patio soaked. Our sprinklers broke at one point and then it started to flood the site (like about an inch of water over the whole pad). When my wife tried to have this dealt with, the first time she apparently didn’t take me seriously. When she went back a second time, she talked to someone else, but the first girl shushed her since she was talking “too loud” and she was “on the phone”. She seemed to miss the point that my wife wouldn’t have been there at all if she had actually dealt with the problem.

They did finally deal with it, but regardless, once the sprinklers come on, there was still no sitting outside. It’s good thing I didn’t come there to sit outside my RV but was looking for a decent proximity to most of the parks.

Also, twice during our stay, they shut down the water to the park, and the only posted notice was on the doors to the bathhouse. This is a park with full hookups at all site, and no tent camping, so I'm pretty sure we're not the only ones who don't use the bathhouse all that much. It was a good thing we just happened to have water in our fresh tank.

Having said all of that, it was overall a pleasant stay, and we would come back.

The overall experience here was quite good. We were here in the winter, so we didn't have issues with ants that many of the reviewers talked about on other sites. Our site backed up right against the water on Mobile Bay. We had full hookups, and no problems there. The park is relatively quiet for having highways pretty close. Also, not a lot of stuff for kids to do, which wasn't an issue for us.

The park offers WiFi, which must be a recent addition, as none of the other review sites indicated it as an option. Having said that, the WiFi was not very good and kept kicking us off. We've got the WiFi ranger Elite pack, so signal strength wasn't an issue. It just kept kicking us off. Also, even when we were connected, it was not fast. But, like I said, we weren't expecting to have it at all, so maybe they'll up the service quality as time goes on.

The location is really convenient to get to anything in Mobile or across the bay in Spanish Fort or Daphne.