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| - First I would like to say "It is good to be home where I can use a working toilet, wash my hands and take a shower and not breath propane fumes!
We were so excited to take this family vacation, it was a very special one for us. Last year my Mom became sick and was hospitalized. They did some tests and found Cancer. stage four, untreatable. While my mom was in the hospital, my Dad became ill. I thought it was stress from mom being sick, since we were at the hospital day and night I took dad to the ER and they did some tests and found Cancer, stage four, untreatable.
We lost both Mom and Dad within three months of each other. We were DEVASTATED to say the least! May 20, 2013 was the one year anniversary of my mothers passing. My Dad followed her in death on Aug 9th and his one year anniversary is coming up soon. June 10th is my mothers Birthday so my sisters and nieces thought it would be nice to remember them in a special way, so we booked a trip to the beach where Dad proposed to my Mom.
After Mom had passed and before Dad passed we made a "bucket list" for Dad and this was one of the places he wanted to go because it had so many happy memories for him. My sisters and I promised each other we would return once a year, in remembrance of them. This was our first year and we were making good on our promise.
Our Vacation was a NIGHTMARE! We arrived at the rental pickup location after a 7 hour drive to pick it up. When he showed us our rental my heart just broke! It was filthy and disgusting! Holes and stains in the upholstery, cupboards where broken, it was NOT clean! So what do we do now? We are 7 hours from home and decided to make the best of it, so we took it as planned.
After paying, they tell us that the gas in NOT full of gas, propane is empty as well as the water tanks!( In their add they claimed it would be all ready to go, full on gas and water and propane and cleaned...this was false!) so we gas up, fill the water and propane and hit the road. Praise God we did not have far to go only 35 miles to the first destination, about five miles to our destination, we hear a noise coming from the front passenger side tire, pull over and look at it and it is BALD. We were all females, not good with mechanics at all so we limp to our destination and parked it for the night. My niece who was following us, told us water was leaking out REALLY bad the whole way.We turned on the fridge...not working, but we could smell the propane. Call travelers assistance asap, They tell us they will call back shortly, never heard from them. The next morning we have to drive to our next beach camping spot 30 miles away so we hit the road because the campground we were in had no available spots for us and we could not stay. We filled the water back up because it had all leaked out on our way there the day before. So we limped to the next place, where we would stay for the rest of our trip. On the way, most of the water leaked out again and the tire was making that sound still, had my sister pull along side us and she said the tire was wobbling really bad, we were lucky it did not come off and cause an accident! Again call travelers assistance and they tell me someone will call back shortly........
So we are finally here!! At our destination...the place where our Dad proposed to our Mom, the place my sisters and I promised we would visit each year together in their memory. This spot was for RV camping only, they have no hook-up so you must be fully self contained.
we get there and most of our water leaked out, propane was empty because it had a leak and leaked out the night before as we slept!!
Took a shower and now the shower flooded, and water was leaking in the vehicle from the shower, and kitchen sink. We had to scoop it out with a bucket. by that night we had a glorified tent, No water, no power, no propane, and now no toilet, because it was full and was supposed to be empty as they claimed and the indicator lights were not working so we had no idea they were full until the sewer leak. With the tire bald and wobbling we could not even move it to dump it. I called Travelers assistance again and they tell us that because it was Sunday we would not hear from anyone until Monday. on Monday they wanted us to take it to a service center or travel a 3hour trip to exchange it in LA very close to Compton we said no way and returned it and ended our vacation early.
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