Our experience with Ramblin Pines started at a 1 star, seriously, but it got better from there, so I think a four is fair. If you're going to read a bit, please read it all.
Checking in was fine, people seemed friendly enough, and one of the workers guided us by golf cart to our site. Our site was decent, gravel pull through, but the site next to us was tiny and I'd have been upset if that had been us. With a 2 and 4 yr old, you need a bit of space. We didn't use our cable but power, water, and sewer was all fine. WIFI was bad, and didn't work; I get that some people say 'oh come on, it's camping, if you want wifi go to a hotel' but at the same time it is advertised and you're paying for it, so it should work better. I can live without WIFI, we had Verizon signal which was fine.
After getting settled we went for a walk, there are two playgrounds down in the campsites, and one over by the office. The ones down in the campsites were nice but weren't leveled well, so the slides tended to be too fast for the 2 yr old. He's tough though and got by all the same. We walked and found the jumping pillow, also advertised on the website. It is free to use as well, so we knew the kids would love it. It had some construction type fencing around it, but the fence was open near the sign that had the rules so we thought it was just a temporary fence and let the kids go to town. Probably 5 minutes later, while the kids are having a great time, a young girl from the office comes out and starts borderline berating us. She said it is closed, asked sarcastically why we didn't see the construction fencing (it had a clear opening right near where the normal entrance would be), and that we had to sign forms before we could go on it. I checked: NO closed sign, and the rules listed next to the jumping pillow make no mention of any forms. I wasn't happy but if it is closed it's closed, so we put their shoes back on. An older gentleman comes out (same one who guided us to our site) and while closing the fence directs us to go see the goats, which are at the bottom of the hill behind the office. We take the kids down there and my kids walk up to the fence to look: out of the fence comes a swarm of wasps. I managed to grab my 2 year old, who was closest to me, but my four year old got stung so I swatted them off his legs and ran carrying him to the office. I burst in and told them straight up I needed afterbite right away, I was pretty furious to be honest.
But this is where the trip turns around, they got an afterbite type medication ASAP, and I applied it right there in the office. They apologized and the older gentleman came in right away and got bee killer and went down to the fence. I cooled down (and so did my four year old, they gave him a lollipop) pretty quickly and we went back to our site. The next day the office staff asked how he was doing when they saw him. They were also generally friendly anytime I saw them, to me or others. One night I was walking up a bag of garbage to the dumpters with my 2 yr old and one of the staff saw me from the office (40 yards or so) and hopped in a golf cart. They drove over, stopped, and said "Walking with the young one is plenty, let me take the garbage". I informed him I was headed that way anyway, but he insisted; he took the garbage and threw it out for me.
When buying wood, you pay at the office and tell them your site, they bring it by shortly. It was enough wood to be fair for the 7 bucks or so, I was more than fine with it. I even asked if they had spare newspaper because I had run out. She said "No problem, I'll see what I can find" and about 8 minutes later was back with a whole day's paper. Things like that, plus the happening with the garbage, really show the character of the staff.
The kids loved the pool; it isn't huge or anything fancy, but it had a fountain thing and they thought it was cool. A great pool for parents with 2 and 4 year old sons.
After reading the whole jumping pillow / wasp incident, which I was absolutely furious about, and then ending the trip and deciding to give the campground 4/5 stars, it's important that I mention that the good things about the campground far outweighed the small bad ones. If I go back down, I will likely stay again at Ramblin Pines, partly because of the facility, and definitely because of the quality of the staff. read more