Discover Camping

This is the worst booking system of all time. The old booking system was far superior. This ‘new’ system is actually garbage. It glitches every time I’m on it, which is very often, and it’s seriously user ‘unfriendly’ as it’s really difficult to navigate and you have to manually re-enter your info every minute or so. They must have opted for the bargain basement web design for this one. Bad idea.

If only I could give Zero Stars... this by far is the most "un-user friendly" booking website known to man. It is difficult to navigate the site, and if you don't know what campsite you are looking for, I'm not sure how you'd actually function on this site. I wish there was a map view to explore and view campgrounds by geographical location. terrible for booking.

I don't trust this website for booking campsites. It appears there's something shady going on. We confirmed via telephone that online reservations begin at 7 a.m. pst. exactly 2 months to the start date of camping. We were booking for August long weekend. I was online, clicking refresh at 6:59. At this point, there were several campsites available at our chosen park. As soon as it hit 7 a.m., all the campsites were booked at the dates we were looking at. There were no lags and there was no chance. I checked immediately for all the parks from Vancouver Island - Okanagan and they were non-available at 7:02 a.m. What a joke.

The BC government claims to have made Discover Camping more fair to BC residents, except for the fact that it is impossible to book any sites! There is no camping availability list i.e. a list letting the user know what camps are available on which dates. Every single campsite is booked first thing in the morning, no matter which site it is, thus causing immense frustration and a terrible experience. Discover Camping needs to majorly improve this so called system before I plan to use any Provincial parks again in the future, which is saying I can't even book one anyways. Why couldn't the government use a lottery for each campsite? This would be much more useful and fair than the current broken system.

The awful aspects to this system and it's staff outnumber the good by an incredible margin. Booking website is glitchy, unintuitive, and provides the booking person no clarity on how it works. Each time I have called their phone number, the representative has been monotone (if able to be heard at all), rude, and seem to not comprehend how the discover camping bookings work

Really disappointed with the customer service is an understatement. If I could give zero stars I would. I made a reservation during a peak time so accidentally booked one campsite wrong. When I tried to cancel part of the reservation online I got an error so I called in and they also couldn't cancel my reservation so said they would raise it to their IT team. They told me to call back a week later. I kept calling back a week later and they said the same thing - call back a week later. I did this 5 times. Over a month past and I finally I got an email with an invoice for a refund for a cancelled campsite. However, they'd cancelled the part of the reservation that I wanted to keep and charged me for calling in even though there was an error with their website which prevented me from doing it online. I called in and they said sorry we made a mistake but there's nothing we can do now because that campsite is now fully booked. I asked what they could do to make up for it and they said absolutely nothing - no extra refund, not even the extra call charge - absolutely nothing!! I've tried to call back several times to dispute it and they give me the same answer. They are also still unable to cancel the part of my reservation that I actually want to cancel and have raised it to their IT team at least 5 times. They tell me every time to call back a week later but every time nothing has progressed. It's now been 2 months and they still haven't been able to resolve the error or give me my refund.

Boy does this site need an overhaul. Terrible is putting it lightly! I have tried numerous times at numerous parks and experience difficulty booking a site every time! We get on at the 7:00am start up time and get kicked out or locked up constantly and then sites are booked like 5 seconds after 7:00. So then we need to sign up again only to find all open sites are already booked! There has to be a better way to allow site booking. People book holidays in advance only to find they can’t get into a selected provincial park. What a hassle!

Trying to book sites is a nightmare. long weekend have to book Fri-Sun night. somehow Sunday night was already booked so guessing they booked longer and cancelled before Sunday. unable to book Fri/Sat because of bad programming logic on website saying you have to book all 3 nights but Sunday already booked. couldn't book Fri/Sat. called their phone # and got a quite apathetic person who tried to claim it was first come first serve site even though website clearly showed it wasn't. person had zero interest to help us. later we found the Fri and Sat got booked up by someone. not sure how or just got someone helpful to do it at their call center. side needs better logic programming and company needs to hire better people.