Tom, as far as the points go, you buy them by in essence putting money on
your books with Coast to Coast.  You can check your account balance over the
internet or call for information.  They deduct from your account when you
stay at a park, though you may find some parks that will accept cash
equivalency. The points are essentially $.01 apiece, so your 800 points is
$8.00 for a night stay.

With both systems you will find you affiliate with a Home Park that your
membership is through.  There are more Coast to Coast parks out there, but
we really prefer ROD.  They have some different plans, the one we are on you
must be in good standing with your home park, pay your annual ROD dues and
your stay in the ROD park is free, or no direct charge to you.  You are out
your dues and membership fees.  If you use the system a lot it can work out
great.  We are full timers so for us it is very worthwhile.  We are
currently returning to our home park after being gone for 8 months and
crossing the country.  During this time we stayed at the property of friends
and family, ROD parks, C2C parks, Good Neighbor parks (a system within C2C
that costs 1200 points or $12.00 per night and at Pass Port America Parks.
On this trip we have stayed at 11 ROD affiliated parks in 9 states, many
stays for up to 2 weeks with no out of pocket charge and access to all
recreational facilities.  Their web page is at
http://www.resortsofdistinction.com/index.cfm, this may answer some
questions.  We have had very good luck with them, but if you don't camp
often, Passport America is a better bet.  There are several parks in the
system and you can see some of them at the web site.  If you have one near
you or one you want to make a home park out of you can join ROD through that
park.

Hope this helps some

Dave W.

RPI is similar to C-C.  We stayed at 6 RPI parks last year for a
savings of about $700.  We picked up a membership for under $400 and
$65/year maint.  Home park is 2-weeks free ($3/day for 50A.)  Other
parks are $8/day.  Well worth it in my opinion but look for discount
memberships.  See http://www.ccmemberships.com/introduction.htm

Or call  1-406-547-3890.  Real nice folks.

Dean

Tom,
We are not full timers, but are retired and take
lengthy trips of anywhere from 1 month to 3.
You must purchase cards from CtoC for a dollar
or two and surrender a card plus some money to
the camp grounds.  Last I recall it ran about
6 dollars a night.  A good deal if there is space
available.  Member camp grounds are not that
readily available and some set aside a certain
number of sites for C2C.  More available are the
so called "good neighbors".  Different card
required here.  Used to run around $12 total, but
Most places will be just as happy to take the
extra dollar or two in lieu of of the coupon.  Many
of the Travel America are also good neighbors and
will cost the same, with no coupons to buy.  Also
no dues for a home base campground.
every year.

We live in Southern CA and bought a
resale in Eastern Washington for $500.  We spent
2 weeks there over several years.  The dues and
C2C subscription Keep going up every year.  So
we dumped them. I still have a few cards.

Your mileage may vary.

Phil