Northwest Austin/Leander KOA

Some of the staff was friendly & the pool was nice but it was not worth the charges they pin on people! This KOA will nickel & dime you for everything from children to pets (even indoor pets!) to guests. All other KOAs we have stayed at, kids were free. Here, they aren’t unless under age 5!!! The spaces were tight & hot as there were NO shade trees. Nice dog run.

Great dog park, beautiful pool and spa area and everything else you want in a KOA. Huge pull through sites and very little road noise. We enjoyed our stay here.

The Leander KOA is slowly coming along. When we first started staying at the KOA, the place needed some help. Slowly, the owners have cleaned up the location and improved the sites. My husband and I have frequently stayed at the Leander KOA, primarily because of the location. The Leander KOA is in the northern portion of Austin with easy access to the tollway. The location and the facilities are clean and quiet.

1-​Star rating only because I have leave a rating in order to review. Very greedy campground that punishes family by charging for kids. KOA prides itself on being a family-​friendly campground… but that can’t be if they are going to charge for kids. If you have kids, you can stay at a hotel for the same price and not be charged for your children, but you’ll be charged at KOA for you kids to stay in your own RV. Below is email traffic between KOA Leander and me.
KOA Leander,
I will be visiting family for the Holidays coming in on the 22^nd of Dec and departing the 27^th. Your website does not have rate information. I need to know what the nightly rate is for the 5 nights hooked up to 30amp service. Additionally, I need to know if KOA Leander prides itself on being a family campground the nightly fee includes my children, or is KOA Leander not family-​friendly and charges for children. Lastly, I need to know if KOA Leander supports U.S. Military members by offering. I appreciate a quick response as I anticipate you charge for children and offer no discounts to military and will need to find a military family-​friendly campground elsewhere. Thank you.
A. C.
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Hi Mr. A. C.
Thank you for your interest in our park. Our rates for the days of Dec. 22^nd thru the 27^th would be $ 45 a night. All fees our based on 2 people/​2 pets/​1 vehicle with any additional people over the age of 6 will be $ 5 a night per person. We do offer a $ 5 off discount to all active military men and women. We also have a VKR Rewards card that you can purchase for $ 27 and it gives you 10% off every reservation you make at a KOA.
If you have any other questions please feel free to call us at 512−259−7200.
Thank you,
Leander KOA Staff
512−259−7200
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KOA Leander,
Thank you for your quick response to my inquiry regarding rates and discounts. It is unfortunate to see that as much as KOA prides itself on being a family campground, there are still KOAs that punish people for having children by charging them to stay in their own RV onsite. Why campgrounds do this is beyond me and the only answer I can come to is greed. Before you throw your hands up in a huff, let me explain non-​KOA parks we have stayed at. Joint Base Lewis-​McChord, Seattle, WA has a campground with over 50 spots. They are not sardined in, in fact you don’t see your neighbor due to an abundance of trees. Our site was on the lake. We had free access to pool tables, horseshoe pits, playgrounds, pool and various other fun activities for families and children to enjoy. We paid $ 20/​night full hookups and no punishment (charges) for children. Ellsworth AFB, SD was a similar campground except no lake, $ 20/​night, no punishment. Every campground I have stayed in, I have researched fully prior to making reservations. I have stayed in more civilian campgrounds than military or federal campgrounds. The most I ever paid was $ 33.87 (includes tax) for full hookup and a charge for one child, then a military discount. The least civilian amount I paid was $ 15, but that was for a late night overnighter passing through a town, we didn’t mention our kids and they had us boondock. So for $ 45 a night plus charging for my children (I have 4 kids, ¾/​6/​12), that comes to $ 55 a night, then tax, and we aren’t even going to be at the campground except to sleep since I’ve already mentioned to you that we are in the are for Christmas. For $ 55 a night, I could get a hotel room and have someone else clean my room and make my bed.
So please tell me why you think your campground is worth $ 45 a night plus children punishment when I can get better campgrounds for cheaper? Why would I buy some pass for $ 27 when I just need to park an RV for 5 days? Common sense doesn’t seem to taking effect here. Perhaps I can get it straight from the horses mouth why you charge $ 20 more than you should for an overnight parking… or why you think it’s okay to punish families by charging an additional $ 5 per child per night. The $ 33.87 campground that charged for a child charged me only $ 2 for my 12 year old, and only for one night. So please, I am dying here to find an answer that doesn’t lead to greed. Can you provide the answer that doesn’t lead to greed? I doubt it.
For the record, I will be posting this information on the four RV blogs I belong to, I will post it on the my RV website that I run, I will post this on Unilocal,and I will post it with Austin BBB to ensure that all future potential campers know that you are not a family-​friendly campground even though KOA prides itself as one.
I highly encourage you and other greedy campground owners to re-​evaluate your rates and operation and reduce them accordingly. We don’t pay extra for our kids to stay in a hotel, why should we pay extra for them to stay in our privately-​owned conveyance?
Very Angry and Disturbed member of Family Camping

My parents are visiting from New Mexico and they have had nothing but problems at this campground. They had my kids over for the day and it ended up costing them an extra 25 dollars for a few hours. They required us to give the names and ages of everyone staying. They were asked multiple times how long the kids could stay for this fee and never got an answer. My parents left very unhappy and canceled the next weeks reservation, which they were told wasn’t even on record. Now my parents get a call from them today saying they owe more money because they had a reservation. This place is a scam and has been reported to Corporate. We are all very DISSAPOINTED. They moved over to old settlers park and pay less than half the cost and the people are very nice.

Great trip thanks for everything folks. Next visit we will take the Steam Engine Train ride to Bernett.
Great service location nice pool and fast Internet.

Very clean, nice people, lots of stuff to do. Pool, horseshoes, tetherball… Would rate 5 stars if they had a few large trees for shade.

We stayed here for a week in a motorhome. Loved it. The spaces are long with plenty of room between you and the next RV. Actually, I think this had more room than any RV park we’ve been to (and we are full-​timers).
Small, but nice laundry facility, small store in the office and great pool and hot tub. Very nice and sparkling clean restrooms and showers.
If they had monthly spots available (all rented for the winter), we would have stayed here for a few months.
The only downside to this park was the flies. So many flies… and we weren’t even close to the dumpster. Not sure why this was a problem, but if you end up there, take your flyswatter.