Reviews

Stephanie Renee

Terrible. Do NOT recommend! Rude staff and drama loving staff! Stay somewhere else. Do NOT waste your money here Edit: Renee isn't my last name, so how would you have looked me up? 🤣

Klara Ellerbe

My family and I lived at buds place for almost a year. It really is a nice place to be EXCEPT for the fact that they need new management. Brenda is extremely rude and lies. Jim doesn’t want to do anything! Our grass never got mowed when I asked when he was going to mow so I can pick up our yard Brenda pretty much blew me off and said it was on us. The fully stocked fishing pond they advertise has no fish in it and the pond is grown up with weeds and grass. The washers and dryer never work. If you have issue DO NOT GO TO MANAGEMENT! The man across from our spot kept speeding and almost hit one of our kids when I went to the office to ask Brenda if she could ask him to slow down a little bit, she called give and gave him our site number said I complained about him not wearing a shirt and him speeding. I have the recording of what I said, NOTHING was ever said about the man not wearing his shirt. Anyways, the man came over to our site with his wife threatening my husband and I. He was cursing at us and trying to fight my husband! Turns out management knew the guy. We ended up in the office and Jim and Brenda sat there completely lying about what actually happened and what was said. You could tell this man was losing his marbles and management was helping him do so! He was in my face screaming at me and they just sat there like it was funny. At this point we no longer felt safe at buds place because they allowed the man to continue living in the park. Instead of making the aggressor leave they allowed him to move sites (he was still close to us). We ended up leaving buds place, the owner did give us a full refund for the month of August. BUDS PLACE IS NOT A SAFE PLACE FOR YOUR FAMILY. BEWARE!!! Since the owner responded to my review. I have proof of all of this. We were not the issue. None of this would have happened if management would have handled this situation properly by simply telling the man to slow down considering the speed limit is only 5 mph, not telling him who said what, where we stay, and not making up lies about what was said. He says he offered us a full refund to give us incentive to leave his park with no issue but we were literally minding our own business when this man came onto our lot attacking us. If we were the issue we would’ve never been offered a place at the sister park. We feared for our safety at Buds Place and WE wanted to leave! THESE PEOPLE ARE LIARS. DO NOT STAY HERE!!! The only thing I wish I would’ve done differently is call the cops, pressed charges, and sued the park!

Lora Brittain

I have enjoyed my time here with the peace and quiet and cleanliness of the facilities. Great place.

Tina Bechtolt

This is our 3rd time staying here at Buds place and the only park we would stay at in Carlsbad! The biggest reason for that is the camp hosts Jim & Brenda. They seriously care about your stay and go way beyond making sure you have what you need!!! They truly made my stay feel like a home away from home. Sending a huge Thank you to them for everything they did for us!

Klara Ellerbe

Called about availability and the lady took my number and told me that she would get back with me. Never received a call back and have since been able to get anyone to answer the phone. Update: We were able to get in contact with the lady and reserve a spot. We’ve been here for about a month now and we absolutely love it. Very family friendly and very clean.

Erik Heller

Avoid! Had reservations pre-paid, but had to arrive later in the evening. We called ahead to let them know and see if they could tell us our site number. No response and no call back. When we got there, the office was closed and had no paperwork or indication of our reservation. Calling in again, there was no answer and again, no one calling back. Looking around, there weren't any clear open spots, so we had to go find a different place to stay. I recommend avoiding this place if they can't even manage basics that every other campground and RV park has managed with no issue. Edit: in response to their response. The reservation was not in my name. And we never received a call back or text of any sort. My recommendation to them: spend more time responding to actual customer issues, and less responding to poor reviews.

Larry Troublefield

Was hard to get them to answer the phone. But was friendly and informative. Prices are about the same as everyone else in town. Clean and well taken care of

Clarice Hoover

The staff were friendly when we called and needed a site that night. The grounds were clean and well kept. We took advantage of the showers and let me just say, they were the cleanest campsite showers I have ever come across. The water faucets worked and the hot shower was amazing. This was a great place to find at the last minute!!

Ari Rabinovich

Clean, quiet, friendly long term residents. VERY nice bathrooms and showers. Feels very safe, lots of families and kids running around. One of the few places that listed an option for a nightly stay online, many other parks are monthly or weekly only. Just FYI there is an option to check in late after-hours, they do have a payment drop box. Didn't find that online anywhere, and same-day reservations didn't seem to be allowed online.

Sandy Donald

This is a lovely rv park. It is well kept and the only reason it gets four stars is the road noise, which is not the parks fault. There is ongoing racing in the evening with pick up trucks and cars dragging away from the nearby traffic lights. Ask for a quieter place at the back.

E T

We called on a Saturday early afternoon trying to find a location before we got to Carlsbad. No one answered the phone, we left voice mail, 2 different times. NO replies. This place had been recommended by another rv campground in Carlsbad, so we presumed it was nice. We went ahead and drove there. Found out place was closed for the day, an RV park closed on a Saturday! Called an after hours number, They wanted $61.00 for one night. After being closed and very rough driveway, we said NO and found another place for 1/3 the cost, with very accommodating owner/managers

Bo Lora

Let me start by saying that my wife put in a 2 star review and the management alleges that their maintenance person worked on our AC for 5 hours. I can definitely say, that is a total LIE! When I plugged in, my second AC wasn’t working. I spent a good two hours tearing apart our surge protector to fines out that it was THEIR 50 amp breaker that had one defective side. I had to go to Lowe’s to get a multi-meter because the repair guy didn’t have one. So when I figured out what was wrong I went to get the guy and he borrowed my multimeter to replace the breaker. He worked on this maybe 30 minutes max and for them to say he worked on my AC for 5 hours is seriously disingenuous. Now, having said all that, let me provide more insights to this place. We arrived and was assigned site 103. I usually don’t care about backing in but when the manager saw our rig she said the site is only for under 30ft. She was kind of rude about it as if I had booked the wrong site. I told her that I entered the number of feet (36) and the online program gave me that site as an option. She then excused it as it was the online programs fault. To add insult to injury, when I drove to the site there was a permanent cabin installed into it. When I went back, she acted like they were sold out and there were TONS of sites empty. Then she put us in the site with a faulty breaker. I have to say, the shower and laundry site are very nice. Hence 2 stars instead of 1. Aside from the park itself. Plan your trip here, if it’s in July or summer it’s going to be HOT AS HELL and buds will not provide any shade from trees.

Myra Manalac

The restrooms were VERY CLEAN! The restrooms seemed practically new and very well maintained which is definitely hard to come by in an RV park. The girls in the office were very friendly, helpful, and understanding. Although, it did seem like people lived there, we stayed two nights and were pleased with everything. It was about 20 miles from Carlsbad Caverns, which was very convenient. There was nothing for us to complain about the park, except some dog owners not picking up the dog waste in the grass area near the restrooms. (Thanks girls, from ND)