Park Center RV Park, Port Isabel, Texas' Home to Winter TexansPark Center RV park is a busy Winter Texan campground in Port Isabel, TX, with daily, weekly, and monthly rates. It sits across the causeway from the coveted South Padre Island beaches.
We've stayed at the Port Isabel Park Center three times -- and had three very different experiences. It was like staying at three dissimilar campgrounds. What made the difference was the part of the park where we stayed. The first time, we had a full-hook up water-front site. Bob could fish out the back door of our trailer. As I sat at my desk and wrote, I could look out onto the water and watch the fisherman, the pelicans, and the shrimp boats. We stayed a month. During that time we didn't go down to the rec hall for any of the activities. We were busy and content enjoying the view and enjoying the Gulf of Mexico. Perhaps because we had the canals on one side of us, the park did not seem crowded. For our second stay at Park Center RV park, we were assigned to middle site, on an inside row. Our view? Recreational vehicles and mobile homes of every description. Quite a few of them housed permanent residents and had not moved for years. We again had a full hook-up site and stayed for a month. Sitting in our motorhome looking out the window, we felt we could have been in the middle of an RV park anywhere in the USA. We did a lot more socializing this time and participated in more park activities. Our neighbors were pleasant and we became friends with them. We went to the weekly jam sessions, musical entertainment, and Sunday hymn sing-a-longs. The park also hosted games, dance and Spanish lessons, a fundraiser for the Shriners, and occasional breakfasts and pot-lucks. The trick to being involved was to find out when and where the activities were taking place. Our third stay at Park Center RV park was only for one night. We wanted to spend a night in a water front site. They have a new waterfront section. The sites are short, on gravel, and have water and electric hook-ups. They refer to it as over-flow parking. But, like ourselves, other RVers were choosing to stay there, and to pay the higher nightly rates, rather than to have a site in the middle of the park. Port Isabel Park Center campground is a destination park in the lower Rio Grande Valley. We liked it well enough the first time that we thought we might want to get an annual lease and make it our winter-time home base. In fact, last summer, when I asked Bob where, if we went south for the winter he'd like to go, without hesitation he answered that he'd choose the Park Center RV park in Port Isabel, TX. We still like the park and would like to return. However, if we were going to stay for an extended time, we'd want to make sure we had a waterfront site in the old section of the park. The campgrounds rates are reasonable, perhaps some of the lowest in the Rio Grande Valley. On the monthly and longer rentals, you pay metered electric, which can be a huge savings. The park offers free WiFi at the sites. They have multiple towers, so the signal is very good. It is a pet friendly park. A propane truck comes through the park a couple of times a week, so you don't need to move your RV to have your tank filled. You can have mail sent to the park. Port Isabel has numerous small cafes, several that are within walking distance from the park. The park is also a convenient place to stay if you want to spend time on South Padre Island, but don't want to pay the Island prices. Port Isabel Park Center Phone: 956-943-7340 WOW Rating: 3 1/2
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