In addition to what I said about Coast to Coast Deluxe (C2CD) on the thread Terry referenced, I also have some general advice about membership camping. Plus a bit more about C2CD.

Membership camping can save you money and be rewarding. But you have to use it and you have to like the campgrounds. If the campgrounds are not where you will be camping, you won't use it. If you can't get into the campground because it is full or the membership sites are full, you will not be using the membership. If you can't live on weak 30 amp water and electric, you will not like many of the campgrounds. (Weak power means the voltage will drop when under load so on a hot day your air conditioner will not run). If you want large campsites, you will not like many of the campgrounds. At some C2C campgrounds you will be a second (or third) class citizen, at others they will treat you well so you might join or tell your friends to join that particular campground. There is no consistency.

We do not have Deluxe, we have a standard C2C membership and only use it one to two weeks a year. In the past our usage was higher, but not very high. Most C2C campgrounds are not Deluxe, so you will be still be limited to one week, twice a year, with a month between stays at those campgrounds. Deluxe only gets you two week stays at Deluxe campgrounds. It is a rare C2C extended travel or fulltime member that can use C2C for more than 25% of their camping. Most will use it for 10% or less.

Campgrounds come and go with these systems, normally slowly. But they can also change the rules. In 2012 The Lakes in Chowchilla CA allowed big rigs, in 2013 they have a 35' maximum.

We have a deluxe C2C. For us to break even on it, we have to use it about 90+ nights a year to make it worth while. This includes the cost of buying in Travel Resorts of America, park membership, associated fee's etc.
Now that we are fulltime, we have used it enough to make it worth while.

Thank You Bill, Allie and Jim for your input.

I guess I should say what we are trying to do. We are going Full-time as soon as the farm sells (could take awhile). What we are trying to do is either get club memberships or other things to keep our monthly park fees to 300-500 a month. Looking at what some of the campgrounds charge for nightly and stuff to me seems outrageous. I mean 30-40 a night x 30 days is more than a mortgage payment in our area for a pretty darn nice house. I know that they usually have discounted weekly and monthly fees, but I want to make sure we always have options.

My parents have thousand Trails Deluxe or something that gives them the 50 nights free and 5.00 afterwards that they say we can use, but I was looking to get two or three different memberships that would pay for themselves and allow us to do what we want. Our big plan is to go see all the things we have never seen in the US. I already have a list of about 500 places Seems we traveled abroad a lot but never visited the US. TT doesn't seem to have as many parks near a lot of the real popular national parks and stuff.

Wendy

Thanks for the info Bill and you are right we do not want to stay in all membership parks. I just want to try and really manage our expenses. We will be living off of a single early retirement income, since I am still in my 40's and hubby is the only one old enough to early retire with his company. We will be trying to do this on a little less than 30,00 a year. We d not want to tap any of the principal of our 401k's. If I was 10 years older It would be no problem, but alas I want my hubby to make sure he enjoys all that we have worked for. So, I am really trying to make sure we manage every dollar for this adventure.