Wine Tails-A Magical Place!
After an RV trip to Yosemite in May, we planned a stop for one night at Wine Tails. It was truly a magical place! The gracious hosts, Colette & Grady, went out of their way in hospitality. As we sipped on eclectic wines and conversed with them & fellow customers we found ourselves having a lovely experience. Colette & Grady have a gift of making everyone feel comfortable as if you’re hanging out with family or friends in their living room. This place is a real gem! From the moment you walk into Wine Tails (love their logo!), you get the feeling you are snug inside a wine barrel! Don’t miss seeing the attention to design detail in the beautiful woodwork throughout the venue. We had so much fun! The hosts even picked up pizza for us. Seriously, the wines we sampled were fabulous (and we’ve tasted wines all over the world). At night’s end, we bought several bottles of wine. We also bought some fresh, organic eggs that look like Easter eggs of many colors. Colette even educated us about her chickens and the proper handling of fresh eggs. We will definitely come back for a visit here and stay in the nice RV space behind their store. Be sure to plan ahead & check their hours of operation as they are currently open Friday-Sunday. When you arrive, you need to check in first before parking. Highly recommended & dog friendly! Hopefully, you will get to meet “Jacks”, their sweet rescue dog.
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Response from developer
Hi Tish & Susie, awesome stories like yours are what makes Harvest Hosts so great! We love being able to connect our Members and Hosts for amazing experiences like this. Thank you very much for sharing and for your membership. Cheers to many more stays like this one!
Love Harvest Host, App is OK.
My husband and I travel full time in our 5th wheel and we have been memebers and #1 fans for awhile now. I do HH(Harvest Host)and BW(Boondockers Welcome). Ever since the addition of BW the app is harder to navigate. For example; not all of my verified stays show up in the “past stays” tab. To leave a review of a past stay there’s several steps to get to the options of doing so. Just seems like it could be more intuitive? For us and our lifestyle, we are in love with HH+BW❤️❤️
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Boondockers Welcome…NOT
We have previously used Harvest Host with much success & highly recommend it for fun & different experiences. Not so much for Boondockers. Debated joining but decided to give it a shot before the price went up, thinking it’d give us that many more places to choose from. NOT! So far, batting zero. First host asked for more information about us. That’s weird but we complied & spilled more personal info about us. Response from host? NOTHING… RUDE!
2nd try to another host….NOTHING…RUDE! 3rd try to yet again another host…”full up, making changes, try another time” even though the calendar showed availability. So it’s looking like Cabelas, Walmart, Crackle Barrel, Rest Stops are actually more reliable & much less time to locate.
2nd try to another host….NOTHING…RUDE! 3rd try to yet again another host…”full up, making changes, try another time” even though the calendar showed availability. So it’s looking like Cabelas, Walmart, Crackle Barrel, Rest Stops are actually more reliable & much less time to locate.
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Stupid update.
What have you done to the app. A blunder of monumental proportions. Check you most recent reviews posted here. Developer: You’re fire!
You can no longer copy an address. Why. Can’t navigate to maps, can’t read the town you’re looking at on map provided. WTH. From 5 stars to one, just that fast - who approved this change? Previous review was five stars for what HH provides (a connection between you and someone that wants your business enough to let you park there overnight). My old review: “I’m batting a thousand with this App with two years in the books. Enough info to help you make a decision and with map (using Google Earth) overheads you get a pretty good look at where you are headed for the night. Safe secure and known locations make for easy going - and there is usually wine at the end of the road. Well worth the time and money. We’ve stayed at dozens so far and continue to bat 1000 for places we’d return.”
With this broken change we must use two broken mapping systems the app now drives you too with no options to cut and paste the coordinates or address. Do the people that design these things even use them. My answer is a clear no! HH might loose me over this nonsense.
Everyone I know uses multiple apps to plan and record a trip and HH suddenly makes you type out every address coordinate rather than cut and paste for use in your other application - really, why?
You can no longer copy an address. Why. Can’t navigate to maps, can’t read the town you’re looking at on map provided. WTH. From 5 stars to one, just that fast - who approved this change? Previous review was five stars for what HH provides (a connection between you and someone that wants your business enough to let you park there overnight). My old review: “I’m batting a thousand with this App with two years in the books. Enough info to help you make a decision and with map (using Google Earth) overheads you get a pretty good look at where you are headed for the night. Safe secure and known locations make for easy going - and there is usually wine at the end of the road. Well worth the time and money. We’ve stayed at dozens so far and continue to bat 1000 for places we’d return.”
With this broken change we must use two broken mapping systems the app now drives you too with no options to cut and paste the coordinates or address. Do the people that design these things even use them. My answer is a clear no! HH might loose me over this nonsense.
Everyone I know uses multiple apps to plan and record a trip and HH suddenly makes you type out every address coordinate rather than cut and paste for use in your other application - really, why?
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Response from developer
Hi Rowdy78, thank you for taking the time to pass along this feedback. Could you send us some more info or even some screenshots to team@harevsthosts.com so that we can investigate for you? That will also help us pass along relevant info and feedback to our product and engineering teams.
Improvements needed
Update: The email (notification) situation has been corrected. If they can add the red mark that makes it easy to zoom in to the city/area typed in, I will go up to 4 stars.
With the new update, I cannot see the red mark when I write in a city/location that makes it easy to zoom in and click on the Host. Also, it used to be (before Harvest Host came into the picture) that one would get an email if a conversation/messaging took place between Host and member. This makes it challenging to communicate efficiently and effectively. Not everyone wants to share their phone number. Email notification and/or app notifications when there is a message from a Host/member should be standard.
With the new update, I cannot see the red mark when I write in a city/location that makes it easy to zoom in and click on the Host. Also, it used to be (before Harvest Host came into the picture) that one would get an email if a conversation/messaging took place between Host and member. This makes it challenging to communicate efficiently and effectively. Not everyone wants to share their phone number. Email notification and/or app notifications when there is a message from a Host/member should be standard.
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Response from developer
Hi dmlmc, we're sorry to hear you're having trouble with the app and receiving notifications. We do send notifications for messages, so if you're not receiving them, please reach out to us at team@harvesthosts.com and we would be happy to look into it for you!
Good idea, scammy auto-renew
I’ve stayed at a few hosts now. And while it’s kinda neat, it’s not really cheaper than staying at a campground. It’s just… better than staying at a Wal-Mart. So don’t get me wrong, I love the hosts.
But there’s no way to turn off auto-renew. No notification you’re going to be charged. And worse, no way to contact them via their website. I spent a long while trying to find a way to contact them on their website so I could turn off auto-renew.
There isn’t a contact form. And cancelling the day you’re charged just means you get to pay $70 to not be able to use the app anymore. You lose access the moment you cancel, even if you pay for the year.
If it wasn’t for that, I’d give the app 5 stars. The app itself is fine. It’s improving which is always a good thing to see. But they need to get rid of the scammy auto-renew feature.
But there’s no way to turn off auto-renew. No notification you’re going to be charged. And worse, no way to contact them via their website. I spent a long while trying to find a way to contact them on their website so I could turn off auto-renew.
There isn’t a contact form. And cancelling the day you’re charged just means you get to pay $70 to not be able to use the app anymore. You lose access the moment you cancel, even if you pay for the year.
If it wasn’t for that, I’d give the app 5 stars. The app itself is fine. It’s improving which is always a good thing to see. But they need to get rid of the scammy auto-renew feature.
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Worst app update ever!
This has got to be the worst update to an app ever done. The last version was considerably better. I can’t see my member number and text in the messages are overlapping and unreadable. I have put in requests only to get error messages saying they were already booked even though the app said there was availability. I thought maybe it was because someone else had requested a stay at the same time. Next day there was still availability in the calendar. Got another error message today even though I was at the HH venue and knew they were not booked! There are way too many bugs with this “upgrade” for anyone to boast about. We love our HH membership but this app is ridiculously bad!
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Nowhere near free
Nowhere near free so that is deceptive. You are not paying specifically for a stay but if you are buying a bottle of wine, round of golf, dinner or whatever is the particular deal, then it’s not free. It’s always been a nice concept but now that big money is involved, is is much harder to successfully use than it once was.
Tried three places and none of them knew what HH was? Then I happened to talk with one of the businesses nearby that was in the system and they didn’t know what this was. Makes me wonder how many listings might be ghosts. As in showing more, but no availability because they are not really part of it. Ghost listings.
Tried three places and none of them knew what HH was? Then I happened to talk with one of the businesses nearby that was in the system and they didn’t know what this was. Makes me wonder how many listings might be ghosts. As in showing more, but no availability because they are not really part of it. Ghost listings.
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Never stayed at one of these places.
I guess it is unfair to only give only 3 stars after reading other reviews but we really appreciate full hook-ups. We originally paid for HH as a backup in the event we couldn’t find a full-service CG on our extended trip across country this past summer. Fortunately, we did. We have our parrot with us and we are always concerned about the temperature in the coach. It was so hot in the northwestern US this past summer that not being able to be assured of AC would have resulted in unhappy campers.
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Deluxe Brewery & Sinister Spirits
This is in Albany Oregon. A cool spot to hand out, with hard working and friendly employees. Laura was very nice and accommodating. I sampled several brews and a couple of whiskeys. The beer was very good. Whiskey wasn’t to my taste, but to each their own. There were people playing ping pong and shuffleboard. There was also a party going on at one end of the large room. Very friendly, mostly local crowd. I found a concrete pad to park our trailer on at the West end of property by a fence, nice and level. Next morning was an easy unobstructed, short backup of the trailer in order to leave. I would definitely recommend!
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