CAMPGROUND REVIEW - ISLA BLANCA PARK - SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, TEXAS

[@mccdan666]

Thanks for the really great content. We appreciate the maps and all side notes. Instant subscriber, glad we've found your channel!

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

Awesome! Thanks! If you have any questions, please let me know! We are here at Isla Blanca now!

[@1okeyesten1]

Great thorough review as usual! Appreciate the effort! Hope to do some traveling in the future, and this place looks like a cool place to visit.

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

The park has its issues but they are overshadowed by its location.

[@michellemorgan9606]

We saw your camper there last winter, and admired it. We were in C400. We will be back again this year from Dec through Mar.

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

Ha! Awesome! Yea, we love it there! Rolling in in November.

[@BADHIGEEN]

Great video. I can't wait to get back there.

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

Thanks!

[@BrokenDreamsReborn]

Hey y'all, we are Shion and Matthew and just recently found your channel! We found this video very helpful and we enjoyed watching your review of this campground! Thanks for sharing!

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

Welcome Shion and Matthew! Thanks for the kind words. Glad you liked the review.

[@Bartonsrving]

Thanks for the review. Real helpful on my decision on staying there.

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

Awesome! Glad it helped!

[@leighirvin908]

Hey, nice video, thanks! We are headed to this park for December and January (we may see how December goes and then decide if we will keep our January reservation). We will be in the first C row, facing the research facility, hope that's a good spot - it was the last one left and appears to be in one of the more spacious rows. Looking forward to exploring SPI - hope it's warm enough in the winter for some nice beach walks!

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

As long as there are no crazy storms, the weather should be perfect.

[@mikesanchez1428]

there's a reason for the paperwork, its lots, but all legal stuff, no noise, no loose pets, you'd be surprised some people wanna be the noisy crowd, but isla blanca wants to keep all happy, i love it the last 10 years i rented there, no complaints, once you get used to going to office first, then its a breeze,

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

Agreed.

[@aminesaib]

This is where I want to watch my first Strarship launch. I hope you do not need an RV to spend the day there?

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

You can enter the park without an RV. They do charge for vehicles but if you walk in, it’s free.

[@jethead]

Great video!

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

Thanks!

[@RVRollingWithMJ]

Thanks for the awesome review!! I will have to check it out and put this down on my list!! What was your favorite thing to do there? We are a new member of your channel!! Melissa from RV Rolling With MJ

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

Awesome! Welcome! My favorite is watching the Starships! Second would be the Pirate Ship, and third is beers on the beach with a couple of friends!😆

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

Great thing is... one and three can be combined for the ultimate day!!! 😆

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

Btw, you can see the Starship and the Pirate ship here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHivfZyaerOEbas

[@RVRollingWithMJ]

@@HomeMeetsRoad WOW!!!

[@NeverStopAdventuring]

Alright, so we happened to be watching some other campground reviews this evening and they weren't very good. I found myself saying "I really wish Home Meets Road had made some reviews for these..." Seriously, you've set the bar now for campground reviews!

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

Wow! Thank you! I wish I had started earlier. We were on the road for a year before I began to record specifically for campground reviews. I felt that I needed to learn what’s important and what’s not before making them. More coming soon! Thanks!

[@NeverStopAdventuring]

@@HomeMeetsRoad "I wish I had started earlier" is a pretty common phrase... We sure wish we'd started recording our adventures sooner! Seriously though, keep up the good work!

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

At least you are recording now! I remember you talked about it in Florida last year. It feels a lifetime ago… when things were ‘normal’. Hopefully we will cross paths soon! Thanks!

[@crisandfam5169]

I live in Corpus but from Fort Worth. I make a 7 hour drive twice a month. Texas is big lol

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

Texas is MASSIVE!!! You can go from Houston to Disney World in Florida, in the same time it would take you to get from South Padre Island to El Paso… let that sink in 🤯

[@markdeleon1875]

Thank you

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

Note this video is a couple years old and I head some things have changed.

[@kip5588]

I understand there's a lot of blowing sand in campground did you have any problems with it affecting the paint finish of your RV?

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

We had no issues. If you are staying for a month or longer, I do recommend doing some sort of rust proofing. The guys who come through and wash RV’s usually have a frame treatment special.

[@Happyliving757]

Is there a actually a playground for kids to play there like swings slides etc

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

Not in the park. You would have to go to town.

[@jenajohnsonO6O9]

Do you know where the tent camping area is at this park? I see a lot of RV spaces but, online reservations says you can rent tent spaces but, I can’t find a good video or map online anywhere that shows it well.

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

When I made this video (spring of 2021), I had no idea they had tent camping. It was closed. I found it this year only by sheer accident. It’s a crappy location. Go to 3:48 in the video and pause it. Do you see the 1? Next to the one is a gravel parking area with a dirt bypass into the park. That grass area to the right is the tent area. At 1:55 you can see a flag in the bottom left corner. Under that it says oversized vehicle gate. That’s the dirt bypass. Under that you see a tent symbol. Yea, it’s crappy.

[@jenajohnsonO6O9]

@@HomeMeetsRoad I appreciate your feedback, it helps me plan my trip better! Thanks!

[@breasonable4343]

@@jenajohnsonO6O9 aw man I hoped for better.

[@5555-r9i]

What section would you say is the best?

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

If you are looking for privacy and space, I'd go with the two long, one-way streets.

[@joaquinsolis7071]

Fun fact: from Texarkana tx you’re closer to Chicago Than El Paso tx

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

WHAT!? That’s crazy!

[@yoisita1]

Very informative video, thank you. I won't go there.

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

👍

[@Earthdog777]

What's up with the mask driving the car lol

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

No idea. 😂

[@davidevans371]

This rv park is way better than the koa

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

Depends on the site I think. KOA is really tight and pricey.

[@YvonLachance]

Video en 2019 de south padres island

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

Video was from winter of 2020 to 2021.

[@EmmaCosme-f4p]

We just came back from a 4 night stay here and it seems a lot has changed in 3 years from when this was filmed. Although the beach and boardwalk are still beautiful as can be appreciated in this video, the RV sites seem to have become overrun with long-term guests that have now set up and taken over the place. The RV area is taken up by old, run-down RVs with uncaring "residents" that treat the place as their own personal junk yard. There's nothing worse than being packed like sardines in narrow spaces between campers on either side of you with their stuff sprawled all over the place without any regard or respect for the fact that someone has now arrived to occupy the space they had been using as their own all along. I would not recommend this place nor will I ever return.

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

That is sad to hear. I was looking forward to returning this fall.

[@giornogiovanna836]

Mask in the car? What planet you from?

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

😂

[@giolopez2119]

I've been over that last 20 years. This biggest trash ppl leave on the beach are Elon Musk project.

[@HomeMeetsRoad]

That’s interesting, as every time we were there, the space community has done cleanups regularly. They were some of the most advocated folk for keeping the beaches clean.