Harvest Hosts - Unique RV Camping Experiences
Harvest Hosts offers unique RV camping at 1300+ wineries, breweries, farms, museums, golf courses and unique attractions that invite RVers to visit and stay overnight for free.
Instead of a box store parking lot, make memories with a unique RV experience! Our membership is a special opportunity to meet amazing entrepreneurs, enjoy delicious wine tastings, peek inside working farms, and behold awesome museum exhibits.
To participate, you need a qualified self-contained RV, as Host locations do not provide any hookups or services such as bathrooms. No tent-trailers, outdoor kitchens or tents of any kind are allowed.
Harvest Hosts encourages all RV Members to support local economies by making purchases from their Hosts to thank them for their hospitality. When considering how much to spend at a Host location, please be generous and keep in mind your campground fee savings. Most of these purchases will be things you probably already buy; produce at the farm, wine at the vineyard, and entrance to a unique attraction.
Category : Travel & Local
Reviews (30)
Great concept, not so great in reality. This is my 1st year trying BW & probably won't renew or recommend. So far, we have had one successful stay at a BW. We have wanted to stay at BW over ten times with only the one success. The all too common issues are: hosts shown on map but zero availability EVER, shows availability & host never replies, shows availability & host then says they aren't available. Looking for a place to stay takes time & I've wasted more time on BW then deserved.
App does not accept my Gmail account as valid email address. Since the update worse than ever. This app is an insult. Forces you to enter pictures but does not accept the pictures. The servers are not available. It is not worth the star... I will definitely not extend my membership as I an unable to use it.
A great quite night on a busy Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend. The host were very accommodating and offered multiple areas to park. The wine ....excellent. Had a flight of 4 and left with Nonno's Cellar which we enjoyed with a nice pasta dinner, as the sun set over the vineyard and horizon. We will definitely be back again over the coming months.
Beyond finding a place to overnight (besides a Wal-Mart parking lot), the app has helped us discover new places to enjoy and learn about that we wouldn't have found otherwise. Learn about alpacas, discover craft beer and regional wines, pottery, etc. All of our hosts over the years have been phenomenal!!
I love the concept and have had amazing experiences with both HH and BW, but this app is SO bad. I plan to continue using the program, but please fix the glitches with the app!! I get no notifications when messages are received, and I can't even click on the "messages" part of the home screen. So I have to go a backwards way to get to any new messages and just keep checking the app or website constantly in fear of missing one. I tried to submit a complaint, but that didn't function either.
While I love the app, is there a way we can put in our specific filters and not have it reset every time we open the app? For example I have a 36 ft RV but I have to reset that every time.
Find it very hard to navigate. Can't get a route planned in order to find hosts. App does not work for me. Very disappointed. Will be requesting a refund
Great place to boondock. Wonderful beer choices, pizza and other fare. We reserved through Harvest Hosts in advance. One camper site only. Clear with a cool wind allowed us to sleep well. Nestled close to Coker University. Downtown Main St "feels" on the way in.
Map view is great for planning longer trips or just a short jaunt. Each Host's page gives you all the info to make a decision and forma of contact the host prefers.
I love the ease of finding and requesting a stay at any of what used to be 3 separate outfits right from my phone. great app!
Harvest Hosts bought another service called Boondockers Welcome. I had credits on Boondockerswelcome that I had earned by hosting people for free, and HH promised to honor those credits when they bought BW out. But as soon as I paid for the HH side of the website, I got a message that I would have to pay more to "upgrade" in order to restore my access to BW which I had already paid for with credits I earned. Many attempts to contact customer service, never any response.
I love Harvest Hosts! It saved us so much money, and we got to see some awesome new places we never would have seen otherwise.
Try to enter location or route and an error message pops up saying to restart the app.. which doesn't solve the problem.
So far the app and the membership has been fantastic. Well worth the fee. We are looking forward to many years with harvest host. Update. There is one thing I would like to see with this app. Improve the directions to a host location to include RV safe route's
Some of the search functions do not work. I would expect the mobile version to work the same or similar as the web version. But it doesn't. The mobile UI is clunky and difficult to navigate making for an overall poor UX.
Been a member of BoondockersWelcome for many years, have hosted numerous guests, all went well until combined with Harvest Hosts. Nightmares since. Poor messaging system now. I get text messages saying a guest was canceled because I didn't reply, but I never got the request! This has happened twice lately. And I can no longer directly accept a requested stay directly from the text request. I have to login to Harvest Host site which is difficult to navigate, can't see my calendars. Please FIX IT!
Really disappointed with this app. I had to get it when they merged with BW. This app constantly crashes and runs slow and there aren't as many filters as the boondockers welcome app so you can't filter by date. There is no rating system for ppl who stay with hosts anymore.
Wonderful place and hosts. very peaceful. our dog loved the open space. and fishing was a bonus.
Love Harvest Host, but the app is horrible. Trying to plan a route is not use friendly at all.
I upgraded Harvest Host to include golf sites & Boondockers Welcome. Obviously museums and golf courses would be with Harvest Hosts. But how do I distinguish private hosts in an area with more than 1 night stay, For example Creation Museum/Ark in Kentucky? Are they all mixed onto one app/program or are they color coded? I suppose you just click on each one in the area you're visiting, time consuming task. There must be a listing somewhere with specific information about each.
App is alright, just wish there was more filtering options. Boondockers welcome had a lot more options to filter down hosts. Particularly if the host offers wifi.
This app is frustrating to use. When you're searching thru hosts in an area you will be visiting thru the map search there is no way of knowing which hosts you have already looked at and eliminated. Even when you 'like' or 'save' a host to favorites they don't show up on the map as a saved favorite. This app waists a lot of time when searching. Is there a way for the app creators to somehow indicate which hosts profiles have been looked at and ones that have been saved as favorites on the map?
Love, love, love ❤️ 😍. Great communication, fantastic app, interesting hosts.
the app is a little temperamental, but the network is awesome.
Pain in the rear app; it logs me out in a very short period of time.
Didn't think I would like the online reservation system because we are a last minute decision maker on when/where we need to stop. But responses have been very quick and provided us some interesting/great places to stay. Thank you
I've only used Harvest Host once and loved it. The App is terrible. I can't figure out how to limit my options enough geographically. Also, when I get my filters set for the length of my RV and the distance I will travel from the route, it keeps changing back to no filters. I have to change it back after every property. Please improve this app. I think I love Harvest Host but finding a location is too cumbersome.
Terrible app. Harvest hosts is great the app is absolute GARBAGE! I could give it less than one star I would. It is conatantly buggy no matter how many times you say do not show this again it shows it again. It is slow. It does not let you easily move around the map. It freezes everytime EVERYTIME I use it. It has always been this way and I cannot belive a company that has enough money to buy branded RVs and pay for as much marketing as they do CANNOT seem to fix this app! It makes no sense
The program is great and we have used it 7 or 8 times on this trip. The app itself works badly on my cell phone and much better on a computer. So tired of putting a state name or host name in the search bar and seeing the swirling dots which never seem to settle on anything. It will work on a computer, or using the map to focus in on an area. We love the HH program and had so many great experiences we otherwise would have missed without it. But the cell phone app needs improvement. To reviewer who gave it one star but admits he didn't join the program I think you should remove your rating since by your admission you didn't use it so you have no idea of it's value.
App is pretty good. Doesn't always want to work. Example, I just pushed leave review and it locked up. I had to close and reopen. I wish when I am typing to a host, the box I'm typing in could scroll up so I can see what I typed. You can only see the two lines visible in the box currently, no scrolling up. Like this box has no spell check. This box gets larger as you type. The other one doesn't. Little things like that make it easier.