Calvin J O.
Yelp
Visited Buccaneer State Park with a group of Four Families and RV's the second week of August 2020. We stayed in Barataria Bay. Only one family had previously visited here a few years ago and they had a good experience, so we all decided to plan our vacation here. This place has loads of potential with a management that is severely lacking in every area. You will see many reviews that will talk about the train noise and vibrations and also the theft, so please heed those warnings. But if you only remember one thing from this review, please remember that our biggest problem was roaches, flying roaches. My daughter saw a review on Facebook before our trip about a family that said that there was a roach infestation. We were so concerned about it that we actually made the 2+ hour trip the weekend before our vacation to scout the premises for roaches. We saw no sign of roaches and even talked to other campers that did not have any bad roach infestations, so we were thrilled and made our trip. The first night, we had a party and BBQ and had a great time. When we decided to go to bed, we returned to our RV and Roaches were all over the entire outside of the camper. We were instantly sick to our stomachs at the sight of roaches crawling on the RV. Our first night was restless sleep just waiting to be woken up by a roach crawling on us, but it did not happen. The next 4 days were hell. Constantly killing roaches on the inside and outside of the RV. So bad that we contemplated leaving early. Management only said, "what do you expect? we are in the outdoors." That was the only answer. Had a great time at the beach and at the water park, but we will never return to stay at Buccaneer State Park. When we returned home, we had to remove literally everything from the RV and Truck to get all of the roaches. We set off roach bombs, roach traps and sprayed the RV inside and out for bugs. After an 8 hour cleanup, we hope that we are roach free now. By the way, our RV is only 2 months old and this was our 3rd trip in the RV. We have been camping many times before and never experienced anything like this. Roaches ruined our trip.
Note, one of the families with us experienced the roaches the worse. In their clothes, bags, food, pantries, outdoor compartments, vehicle. They had the worse of us all.
The facility could be one of the top RV destinations in Mississippi, but with the current management and Roaches, forget it. We will NEVER return unless we stay offsite and come just to visit the water park. Our RV will never return to Buccaneer State Par