Now, I know you guys were really wanting to go sleep in your separate tents, but ....
.... that mean old beatch Hard Economics has come a callin' and she's slappin' our jaws right smart like. $20 a tent, $15 extra per additional person in a tent --- it adds up right quick like.I'm talking about this here place, which gets the best/highest 4.5 star ratings and the most (49) reviews of any campground up there anywhere near Mt. Mitchell.
http://www.linvillefalls.com/Now I called the sweet little Granny that runs the place (and her name is Granny Hardcore and she ain't all that marshmallow sweet) but she makes some good sense when she talks it out with you.
She has a camping cabin with a queen bed and two bunk beds, a dorm refrigerator, and a front porch. No sheets, no nuthin else but a bed, you bring a pillow and sheets or sleep in your bag if you want to. $60 basic 2 person occupancy plus $2 for heat/ac plus $5 for each additional person. They don't care how many you stuff in there, they have seen over 10 people in this cabin, laid on the floors and out on the porch. $5 each of them past the first two.
A cabin would cost us $70 split 4 ways (assuming we have 4 staying the first night) 4 could actually sleep on the queen and the two bunk beds leaving lots of room on the floor for other people if more people decide to come since it is rooms, not tents.
Or I could sleep alone in the queen bed and you could airmattress/sleeping bag on the floor and keep your reputation intact ....Anyway, camping in tents will cost us 2-3 tents plus however they count our extra people.
This means a cabin costs on the order of $5 a head extra a head not to have to pack all your camping gear.
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Ditto for this place that we would move to that is on the other side of Asheville, except it is a lot cheaper (and it is as good or better a place and it is a lot cheaper to boot).
http://www.blueridgemotorcyclecamp.com/Now, this is a known goooood place to stay and has a 24 hour ac'd lounge area with TV and games and free wifi computer hook up. I think it will be the better of the two places and it is cheaper to boot.
$12 per single tent, $19 for double tent, $5 per extra person
Cabin economics go like this, you get sheets with the cabin on the two single beds, no AC needed (cold at night) and the rate is for two and they didn't charge us extra for somebody sleeping on the floor last year. By the time we got here, we would likely be 3 not four as Serenity isn't going the whole enchalada with us.
$45 a night for a cabin, sleeps 3 with one on the floor.
Staying in a cabin works out to $15 a head at Blue Ridge Motorcycle Resort and $23 a head at Linville Falls Campground. In each case it is about $5 more expensive not to have to pack all your camping stuff.
Staying in a cabin means you pack a pillow and a blanket (and mebbe an air mattress if you are an old softie like me and are afraid of the floor).
Your bike doesn't look like a burro going off gold mining on the way up and back and you don't have to worry about the trouble of tear down and set up on a tent.Let's vote ....
Oldfeller -- I prefer no junk and no hassles and I'll pay the extra $5 for each of you.
Midnight --
Serenity --
MMRanch --
PLEASE RESPOND -- Roll call vote !!! 
Earl -- whut's that there twanging sound I hear off in the distance
..... durn, somebody's a playing a banjo off in the holler again?? 
eek 
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