Wednesday, June 13, 2012

KOA now selling luxury vacation cabins

Kampgrounds of America, better known as KOA, has gone into the home selling business. Well, sort of. . .

Through a new partnership among the Stockton (Calif.) Delta KOA, Phoenix, Arizona-based Cavco Industries, and West Sacramento-based Reliable Home Solutions, a dozen luxury park model cabins are available for purchase from mid-$40,000 to mid-$60,000.

Purchasers of the units will also need to pay a lease fee. Annual site lease costs range from $900 to $1,900 for the first year, then jump to $3,960 to $5,400 for each year thereafter.

The Stockton Delta KOA is the first KOA campground in the western United States to sell new versions of the popular vacation cabins. The 400-site Stockton KOA is located in Lodi on the shores of the California Delta next to the Tower Park Marina, which KOA also owns.

Many of the park’s guests are boating enthusiasts from the Bay Area and Santa Cruz who like the southern reaches of the Delta near Stockton because of the area’s warmer weather and excellent fishing for striped bass, small mouth and large mouth bass and salmon.

“Having a vacation cottage at the Stockton KOA is going to be very attractive for people who are looking for affordable ways to have a weekend getaway cabin or vacation cottage,” said Gene Davis, president of Reliable Home Solutions, which is marketing the units on behalf of KOA and Cavco.

The 400-square-foot Deluxe Cabins, which are called “park models” in the campground industry, are manufactured by Cavco, which has been building park model cabins and cottages for use as private vacation cottages in campgrounds for nearly 20 years.

While park models have been used in campgrounds throughout much of Arizona, Texas and Florida as well as the Midwest and East Coast regions, they are just now being introduced in campgrounds in the West, and even then mostly as rental accommodations.

SOURCE: RVtravel.com and news release.

No comments: