This was the first time my family camped at Avalon Campground. As far as Jersey Shore campgrounds go I was impressed. I've stayed at several and this was the nicest I've stayed at. We were camped right behind the 2 pools. These are relatively new sites and could be a little wider, but had ample room for our two slideouts and awning. There were a lot of cable TV channels available and Wi-Fi was just receivable at our site. They do not offer Wi-Fi throughout the campground, we were just close enough to the source. They do require a username and password that is good for 6 hours. We camped for a week and enjoyed the campground. There are tons of amenities, 2 pools, a decent playground for little ones, a full basketball court, baseball diamond, horseshoes, miniature golf and a game room. The camp store was decent, not too expensive. If you stay in the original portion of the campground in the back, it is similar to most of the Jersey Shore campgrounds, real cramped with lots of seasonal sites. The main negative is the abundance of French Canadians. Most of our stay we were the minority. I have not experienced that at the other Jersey Shore campgrounds I've stayed at. We will definitely stay here again as long as we get one of the newer sites behind the pool.

I have camped at Lickdale Campground once a year for the past 3 years. Every year I put together an event with about 60-80 or so people in attendance. Most of the group camp in tents while a few others are in the cabins or in an RV. (Now they only have one cabin, they turned the other into an office after last year.) I have stayed here in a tent, an RV and a travel trailer. The first year I stayed here I had a decent pull through site next to the small, but ample playground. I stayed in the RV this year on the stream for 3 nights and in a pull through for 2 nights. I was not comfortable sliding out my port side slideout when camped along the stream because I was worried someone would smack into it. The pull through site was wide, but not level. There is nothing to do at this campground aside from stream activities: tubing, canoeing, fishing or swimming. The Camp/General store is well stocked. As far as camp stores go, it is reasonable. They do offer hot and cold food prepared on site, but I have never tried anything. They also have an ice cream bar. I've only used the bathrooms one time camping here and that was last year while I spent 5 days in a tent. They weren't the cleanest bathrooms in the world, but I was comfortable with them. Their laundry facility was adequate with 2 washers and two dryers. There is no cable TV available and Wi-Fi is not available throughout the campground. You have to go to the camp store to use the Wi-Fi. The staff is composed of mostly teenagers and young adults. They are very nice and try to be helpful, but sometimes struggle with the computer. A few of them have been with the campground as long as I have been staying here and seem to know what they are doing. They do escort you to your site and deliver firewood to your site. We normally have 40 or so tents that are spending $25/night to share 8 tent sites, only two of which have electric and water. Unfortunately, the owners do not treat us like we are spending $1000/night with them, not including the tons of ice and firewood that we purchase from them. As others have said, the seasonal campers are in bad shape. There are only a small handful of them in one corner of the campground, but they are not pretty.