El Centro RV Parks for Snowbirds

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Hi,

We drove through Rio Bend RV and Golf resort and Sunbeam Lake RV resort and liked them both, for a 4 month Winter stay.
The place we stayed in Gold Canyon for 8 Winters has out priced our budget, and we can stay at the above places for just over half the cost.
Being Canadian the exchange rate takes a big bite, after the banks take their ridiculous share, it costs us $1.37+ Canadian per US $, that's 37%!

Any of your thoughts and opinions would be really appreciated.

We don't golf and heard that as nice as Rio Bend is, there is a goose poop problem near the water.

Thanks in advance

Pete & Terry

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Thanks for responding

[almcc]

Didn't think about the Fountain of Youth, it's probably the most reasonably priced park in that area, some others near Palm Springs or Borrego Springs are $2,000 a month. FOY has pools heated by geothermal water from below.

[bobfrombc]

our experience is the WIND
notice the wind turbines on the hill above Rio Bend

take a look at Fountain of Youth north of there

[joegray]

X2 On Knightsbridge. Rio Bend is nice. Close to ElCentro and Costco. One of the downsids is its really cloce to the AFB. Blue Angels practice there. Never saw many geese around,after all they are Canadian visitors too. HA HA

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Thanks for that info 🙂

[almcc]

Not a comment about the parks but about Canadian exchange rates. We use Knightsbridge foreign exchange to get US dollars which go into our US$ account at our Canadian bank and then is used to pay our US$ credit card. Knightsbridge rates are half a percent above the BOC rate compared to the bank rate of 2.5% above the BOC rate. It's painless, you bill pay Knightsbridge through your bank and the US cash comes into your US$ account at your bank.