Campground Review: Travelers World RV Resort
Review Stats
| Bathrooms | 5/5 |
| Scenery | 3/5 |
| Store | 2/5 |
| Activities | 4/5 |
| Privacy | 3/5 |
| Noise | 2/5 |
| Hookups | full |
| WiFi | paid |
| Fires | no |
| Alcohol | allowed |
| Sprint | 2 bars |
| AT&T | 2 bars |
It was the two weeks surrounding the Christmas and New Year’s festivities. San Antonio, Texas was a blazing 70 degrees even as the northern half of the country was getting record amounts of snow and freezing. Even with it being the holiday season, though, there was plenty of space for us Travelers World RV Resort.
The staff was incredibly friendly and welcoming, providing us with a little pamphlet that explained how to get downtown, where to catch the bus, what all amenities the resort offered and were just genuinely incredibly warm people. With regards to some of those items, this park is incredibly close to downtown San Antonio and it’s Riverwalk, which is a stretch of very nicely done up sidewalks along the San Antonio River as it passes through downtown, near the Alamo and beyond. The park is about 3 miles from downtown and you can catch a bus right outside the office door. Bus fares are cheap ($1.10 / ride as of January 2009, $.55 / ride for kids) and they run fairly often, about every half an hour for this particular stop. The park itself has a playground, pool, a jacuzzi, incredibly, ridiculously clean bathrooms and showers, a nice laundry facility, a store (that mostly sells trinkets and souvenirs, nothing like milk or food, only a few sodas and ice cream sandwiches), a game room and a rec hall where they have breakfast, a daily BYOB happy hour and other gatherings, like a Yoga class. It’s primarily populated with retirees, or at least was the case during our stay, who are snowbirding for the winter. I met a few couples from as far north as America’s Hat: Canada.
While the park itself is very nice, incredibly clean and well manicured, the surrounding neighborhood is pretty much a dump. There’s a taqueria across the street that smelled very good but also seemed to cater to a more rowdy bunch, particularly on the weekends, and a gas station / convenience store very nearby as well where you can refresh your milk and beer needs. Empty buildings and junk yard house lawns prevail throughout the rest of the neighborhood, at least along the main road. Behind the park there is access to an 8 mile hiking / biking trail that winds along the river, you can take it a couple of miles to the San Juan mission or just cruise it for exercise, and there are several playgrounds and spots to grill out along the way. Just behind the park is a golf course, as well.
All in all, it’s a very nice park and with the ease of taking a bus downtown, it’s got a great location as far as staying in San Antonio. It is quite expensive, however, but not too far out of line with what most in-the-city parks seem to be.
