Ventura Beach RV Resort

For the most part, this park gets negative reviews. Yep, you are right next to the freeway, but at our pull-thru site about 3 rows back, it was a white noise that I felt helped to mask the disturbances caused by other RV'ers. Road noise was no worse than many other parks we've stayed at. Yep, it is very pricey, but this is Ventura Beach area. I considered it 'fair market value'. And apparently many others did also! Mid-June, mid-week it was at least as crowded as the previous 2 coastal (albeit cheaper) parks we stayed at. And a whole heck of a lot nicer! It is a very attractive, very well maintained facility. No satellite TV interference at our site. Evidence of the removal of mature trees to facilitate today's larger, multi-slide units. There were a lot of different types of sites. The hook-ups at our pull-thru were not designed for motorhomes, but were at the very back of the site. Having both the dinghy attached & taking advantage of said hook-ups would not have been possible. Great WiFi. On the downside, the rules need to be proactively enforced. Too many dogs off leash. Motorized vehicles traveling too fast. And tow vehicles (always with a toy hauler) sticking out into the roadway. I didn't feel the sites were wide enough for the fire pits that many guests felt were necessary in mid-June. But we really liked the park. The many rule violating guests . . . not so much.

It's an extra $25 per site at the time of booking to guarantee sites together. Fine. Everyone in our group paid it. I never got my confirmation email so I called the next day and they said they didn't have my reservation. Strange because my card had been charged already. Turns out they misspelled my name and email. It should have been a clue as to what was to come...

When we got there, the woman checking us in was the same one that had made the reservation on the phone. I paid the balance due and THEN she told me the site number. Wait for it....they had us at the complete opposite end of the park from the rest of our group.

She first tried to say we didn't pay the $25 fee, but she backed off that argument when I pointed it out on the receipt. Then the woman had the gall to say I had told her what site number I wanted. COMPLETE LIE!!! I simply told her I wanted a site next to our friends and she looked up their reservation. I had never been there before and wouldn't have know what site number to suggest, let alone one at the other end of the park from our group.

I asked if they could just put us next to our friends anyway. They INSISTED all the sites were booked and there was no way we could be next to them. After a lot of back and forth with the lady, she moved us closer to our friends but it was still a substantial distance from them. I asked if she could at least give me the $25 fee back. Nope. No refunds but they were going to do me a "favor" and give me $25 store credit. Ridiculous. But fine, what was I going to do?

On the way to our site we passed our friends' sites. No joke: two spots to the east were vacant and three to the west were vacant. I went back and asked AGAIN and she insisted the sites were reserved and although those people didn't pay the $25 site guarantee, they couldn't move them because they had bigger RVs than us. I had to walk out before I lost my cool.

The entire three days we were there, there was exactly ONE of the vacant sites that had an RV in it, and it only stayed for one night!

This is all aside from the usual complaints on the other review sites. It's super crowded and too narrow for the RVs to get around, the freeway is extremely loud, they charge you for everything, the reservation staff is rude and has ZERO customer service, several of the people near us were loud and inconsiderate, they have security swarming the premises but they don't enforce the rules. Oh, and you have to wear a wrist band the entire time you are here, like Spring Break in Cancun.

I am positive I will never come back here. Terrible. Terrible. Terrible. Do yourself a favor and go ANYWHERE else.

So Ventura camping is tricky. This is the only private campground in the city of Ventura. The 3 county parks in the area are awesome, but they are first come, first serve parks with specific restrictions...so it does not always work to camp there. This park is a large RV park, with some tent sites, and a complete and substantial rundown of amenities. The caveat is...this park is sitting on the side of the 101 freeway, and you hear and see the traffic go by. Though it is very expensive and noisy, this is a super fun place to camp next to your friends. You will constantly find groups of friends camping side by side here with their families. It is around the corner from the beach and is a great place to bike. It is also super close to downtown Ventura, which is a great town to discover and walk down Main Street. One incredibly disappointing factor is that they charge extra, if you have more than two children. There is significant security here. In fact we often found them patrolling late at night when we came in from traveling. This is a very secure park. They issue you security bracelets that you must show when entering. They do charge a ridiculous amount for visitors. So there are a handful of pros and cons. Some days I would say that I would not return, other days I say that I will if I can not get into the beach parks. If you are trying to decide....this is a great park to use the amenities (pool and kid activities) and enjoy the beach town, if you cannot get into the county parks or know that you must pull into the park on a weekend, when you won't stand a chance at getting a spot at a busy beach site. This might be just perfect for a motor coach looking for a site without the beach scene.This place is packed during peak season in the summer and more sparse in the winter. It does fill up quite full on the weekends in October for Halloween activities.

Camp store expensive.
Staff (Gary) very rude.
Extremely noisy due to freeway.
Soggy grass

Thieves! I checked in here for an extended stay. It cost me $1800 a month for a spot 100 feet from the freeway. Half way through my first month the park flooded and evacuated. I asked the staff the day before if I should be concerned and was told no. The day of the flood they didn't call me for four hours after they were notified of the evacuation. By the time I got there I was in waist high water. I lost over a $1000 worth of gear and $2500 in damage to my coach. I couldn’t risk more damage so I moved moved out and they wouldn't even refund the rent for the last two weeks. Stay away if you're smart.! I’ll be seeing them in court.

Your rig, rugs, chairs ect. will get wet from sprinklers. Extremely noisy.... freeway is so close you can see the cars

This park walking/biking distance to beach and downtown Ventura. Great park if you have kids. On the weekend there were back to back activities all weekend long. Plus they have a free shuttle to downtown in their Army truck. Clean park, felt safe with tight security.

Pros: Clean, safe, full bars AT&T & Verizon. close to beach and downtown Ventura

Cons: $$$. Super tight spaces. The palm trees are beautiful but make it difficult to maneuver around to pull your rig in. Freeway noise (This park is right up against the 101)

At face value, this camp looks nice. And check-in went well. But in reality, the management and workers are just horrible. The people I interacted with were needlessly unreasonable and mean-spirited. One of the workers even threatened me with violence. And I was as nice as can be. They put me in a spot that barely fit my 24 ft. Navion, and this worker was yelling and threatening me because my car stuck out into the camp road (slightly). I tried to show him that I was backed up to touching a tree behind my RV, and the space wasn't wide enough to park my small car and RV side-by-side. So I had to park the car in front of the RV which is why it stuck out on the road. The space was a complete rip-off! There was no other way I could park my car. And there was plenty of room on the road for even large RVs to get by. I asked if there were another place to park my car, or to move me to another spot, but that just set the guy off even worse. I told him I would take it up with the office. I went there immediately and they said there was nothing they could do, I just had to make it work. They refused to move me, or refund any remaining reservation if I left. So the environment was just nasty. And although the park is well maintained, the freeway noise (and particulate pollution) was just awful! Many of the sites are less than 30' from the slow lane of the 101. You cannot escape the overbearing noise unless you go inside and turn music or the TV on. I will never return, and do not recommend this place, even if you are desperate to find a campsite. Go elsewhere at all cost!

We’ve stayed here a few times and have noticed some bad reviews. If you pay the extra 25$ to pick your site you will have a better experience. The staff here have always treated us with kindness and professional courtesy. They have full time security which does a good job keeping the place safe from the homeless who live in the river bottom nearby. If you stay towards the north side of the park the freeway noise is minimal. This place does get crowded but the overall noise level from other campers is kept within reason. Check in is 1pm and can get a little crazy at the entrance. Cell service for Verizon is good and you can stream. Satellite reception is a bit trickier with the tree cover. Very clean sites although they seem to water a bit much keeping the grass wet or damp depending on your site. Short walk to the beach, short bike ride to Main St, and short drive to Ventura Harbor as well as shopping etc. This was our second time here and we plan to stay again!

We bought our Airstream in Santa Barbara on July 10th and decided to spend the night nearby en route back to our home in the mountain west. This is really more of an Airstream "hotel" than it is a park for Airstream owners. Several families seemed to be renting existing Airstreams together and so there was a good family vibe.

The park could not be in a worse area. It is literally between a highway and an active train track. And on the other side of the highway, there is a huge construction site where condos/apartments are being built. There is nothing at all peaceful or restful about it. It is extremely dusty, etc. Deeply urban.

That said, the owners have done a nice job trying to make the lot "festive." Nice atmospheric lights, full live planters of gorgeous succulents, etc. Fire pits, corn hole, etc. all nice. There is a cute store and the communal bathrooms and showers were extremely clean. Given its location, safety is an important priority and the owners have installed electric fences and passcode-driven entrances.

It's really hard to gussy up the location, though. I gave it three stars because of the owners' efforts and because of the cool concept. I would stay here again in a pinch.