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Wander Camp Yellowstone
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Raw Sewage and a refusal to refund - NOT worth it!
User: Rose M from:
Published Date: Jul, 15, 2024
Travel Date: Jun, 1, 2024
Rating: 1
DO NOT STAY HERE! TLDR: Raw sewage flooded showers, they refuse to refund. We stayed here for one night on a trip to Yellowstone, and because we had glamped and camped many times before, we thought we knew what to expect. The tents themselves are fine, if absolutely minimal, only cots and bedding, no towels, no chairs, nothing else at all. The food truck wasn’t open at all, and we were told that they didn’t have anyone to run it. This was all ok, if not what we would expect from ‘glamping’ - we had our own towels, and found somewhere to eat a short drive away. The bathrooms were terrible - significantly worse than you would find at an average campground. The shower didn’t have ‘running’ water, instead, they had pull chains, and each pull would release a spurt of cold water. There were around 6 cubicles, only 3 with showers, each had a sink, a foot-pump toilet, and a shower - and all of them were extremely dirty, but usable. So far, it’s just a disappointing campground claiming to be ‘glamping’, but it was the morning that was truly awful. The shower cubicles are raised, above the tanks where the toilet sewage and grey water goes - and the campground didn’t have them pumped out. So in the morning, raw liquid sewage was overflowing, covering the toilet floors, and filling the shower pans - which meant that to shower, you would have to stand in three inches of raw liquid sewage! Even standing in the stalls to try and wash hands or brush teeth was disgusting - standing in sewage, trying not to vomit and to get out as fast as possible. The situation was the same in every single stall. After we left, we reached out to try and get a refund - and at first, they seemed professional, wanted to have a phone call, and set up a time. They then did not call. We reached out again, and they set up a new time - and didn’t call. For several weeks now, we have been consistently reaching out, they reply to set up a call to ‘talk about a refund’, and then they do not call, and won’t give us a number to call. This was not worth anywhere near the cost of it - and would be overpriced even if the showers were NOT flooded with raw sewage - which seems like it probably happens frequently, as they don’t seem surprised, and the camp is poorly run. It is not ‘glamping’, it is bare-bones camping, and the customer service is terrible.
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Glamping
User: Maggie B from:
Published Date: May, 27, 2024
Travel Date: May, 1, 2024
Rating: 5
The tent was very clean and the staff was very helpful. I would pack some warm clothes if you are staying in the spring. The views from camp were amazing. There were several bathrooms and showers available. They were cleaned fairly regularly.
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Wander Camp fun
User: anniebI4914QX from:
Published Date: May, 24, 2024
Travel Date: May, 1, 2024
Rating: 5
Having a great trip at Wander Camp Yellowstone! The beds and facilities are clean and well kept, and the scenery is beautiful! Would recommend to anyone wanting to be close to nature. Great sunset and sunrise views and very family friendly too.

DISASTER
User: joaquin e from:
Published Date: Oct, 23, 2023
Travel Date: Oct, 1, 2023
Rating: 1
DISASTER. I made a reservation for my honeymoon at wandercamp, they canceled it a few days before the date and they still haven't given me a refund. No one answers my emails. PLEASE CONTACT ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
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Avoid
User: arthur c from:
Trip Type: Couples
Published Date: Sep, 27, 2023
Travel Date: Sep, 1, 2023
Rating: 1
The whole set up was falsely advertised - we were expecting a peaceful ‘wilderness’ experience. The camp is probable less than one mile from the highway as the crow flies and you can hear every vehicle flying down the road. I didn’t sleep a wink on the first night. The tent was okay, looked a bit stained from water ingress, but the bed was clean and comfy. The toilet block was clean but extremely user unfriendly. Steep, unlit steps without a handrail to get in/out and there wasn’t even any hooks to hang clothes, towel etc on. I get that this is an ‘off grid’ project but the solar powered water situation wasn’t good enough - water was lukewarm and the shower mechanism involved holding a pull cord to keep the water flowing. Not very handy!!! The on-site food wagon was NOT on-site which was very disappointing considering the site was still fairly well populated. The overall impression we got from the host was that as it was the last week of the season she had already started closing everything down to the bare minimum and that she just wanted to get back to her home in Vegas ‘before the snow comes’ - her words. When we got up after the first night the tent had let some water in and my wife and I both decided we wouldn’t be coming back for a second night. We booked a hotel for the night.

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