We stayed at Sun Outdoors San Diego Bay in Chula Vista, California. (Campground Reviews listing.)
Party city. We don’t like parties.
Dates:
- Check in: 2023-04-08
- Check out: 2023-04-16
- 8 nights
Weather:
- Mostly cloudy, one day with drizzle
- High temps ranging between 57-70°F, lows around 48-52°F
- Negligible wind, up to 16 MPH gusts
Noise:
- Some distant freeway noise
- No road noise
- No train noise most of the time; once or twice distant noise
- Frequent helicopter noise from a naval air station
- Lots of neighbor noise (this was a bit more of a “fun” resort than we usually prefer)
Site:
- #16, back-in, concrete
- Needed to disconnect toad; parked next to coach
- Level
- Small site: about 50 feet long by about 25 feet wide
- Patio table, chairs, plumbed-in gas fire pit on concrete
- Shrubs (in need of a trim)
Utilities:
- 50 amp power, conveniently located
- 45 PSI water, conveniently located
- Good sewer connection, conveniently located (1 10-foot pipe needed)
Internet (in usage priority order):
- T-Mobile: 35-46 Mbps down, 13-21 Mbps up, 30 ms ping
- AT&T: 1 Mbps down, 3 Mbps up, 45 ms ping
- Verizon: 2 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up, 45 ms ping
- Starlink: not used
- Campground Wi-Fi: not used
Amenities:
- Central garbage compactor, not very convenient (a resort really should have garbage collection from site)
- Swimming pool & hot tubs
- Onsite cafe with delivery to site
Our review on Campground Reviews:
Party central, not the place for quiet contemplation
This was the most expensive place we’ve ever stayed and I really wanted to like it but wound up counting the hours until we departed. Perhaps it was because it was spring break, but this resort was packed with rowdy groups and masses of kids. You could hardly drive down the road without dodging the corn hole games, kids on bikes, adults on skateboards, etc. And, oh the noise, noise, noise. If the neighbors weren’t blasting their music or shrieking, the park itself had music blaring from the pool area or roving the streets. We work during the week, so it was unconducive to concentration. It’s petty, but the biggest complaint is that for $165/night they should have trash pickup at your site. They have one dumpster/compactor and it’s equally inconvenient wherever you are in the park. They also have annoyingly planted trees right next to the patio on the northern sites along the fence. We couldn’t get between our front door and the patio without squeezing between the tree and our slide. On the plus side, the cafe and bar were nice and we enjoyed several meals there, and the plumbed-in gas firepit at our site was a nice addition. The Bayshore Bikeway runs right by the park and it was nice to ride around the bay. We camped at Sun Outdoors San Diego Bay in a Motorhome.
Tip for Other Campers: San Diego Zoo is worth the hype (order your tickets online to save a few bucks and avoid the line at the park), and Balboa Park has so much to see. The Cabrillo National Monument is also a great place to check out.
Interactive map; the RV park is too new for the satellite image as of this writing, but may be there if you check later:
Campground map:
Our site:
We rode our bikes:
This shrub was touching our coach; I trimmed it back so we could access the patio:
A nice plumbed-in fire pit:
We like places with on-site restaurants, even better when they will deliver to our site, which we took advantage of on travel day; we’re always tired then, so nice to not to have to cook or go out:
We went to the cafe a few times:
Breakfast:
Another day, free drinks from tokens given on arrival:
Dinner:
Another breakfast:
This place had a definite party vibe, including roving live music on our first day:
Other sites:
Cabins:
Pool area:
Finally, another view of our site, with our coach packed up and ready to leave:
This was a nice, new resort. We enjoyed the convenience of the cafe. But we didn’t enjoy the noisy neighbors, with lots of people having large gatherings in front of their sites (and on the roads), with loud talking, loud children, and loud music. Not our kind of place.