Blake's Skagit Resort & Marina

As a long term tenant here, I felt it appropriate to speak my mind regarding the bad reviews left. First & foremost, Paul & Jung are very good people. People who are trying to run a business & having to deal with a bunch of BS all the time. The entire time I've been here they've been nothing but kind and helpful to me and my pet both... As stated, the bad reviews have been left by people who were evicted for not following the rules, trashing the laundry room & costing Paul time & money having to fix the machines repeatedly. This place is extremely quiet & peaceful. I have hosted multiple BBQ's; music, cocktails, the works. NO ONE makes noise past 10pm on any given day, because we follow the rules. I have never once been questioned about my electric or water use because I am not a wasteful person. If you're going to rent here an important thing to remember is this is a marina, so NO. There is not a bunch of grass to be destroyed by trucks, boats, and RVs coming through here all the time. It would be a complete waste of time and money to plant it when it's going to get trashed. This place is not a junkyard nor does it look like it, all of the RVs are in extremely good condition, there's not nasty looking tarps everywhere, no broke down vehicles, & I absolutely love my long term cabin. I have lived in several parks & know what junky nasty ones are. This is not it, & the owners deserve more respect than what's being displayed here.

They charge $1,000 a month (not including utilities) for a small concrete slab and act like they’re giving you a discount because “it’s cheaper than any other RV park around.” The difference is other RV parks are better ran and give people more than 2 feet of space between RVs. There is absolutely no privacy and I have seen the owner come behind and around our RV when he thought no one was home to inspect our site and turn off our water. The residents are nosy and love to complain about the smallest of things. The owners are greedy and always find something to get angry about.

Edited to add a response: there was only ONE time either of you talked to me about the dog poop or the car that I had not yet gotten running again - and that was when Paul came and banged on my door screaming at me and gaslighting me, straight up lying to my face about claiming to have talked to me before. Yes I signed a paper, over 3 years ago, that I never got a copy of. If you’re going to hold tenants accountable for things, hold them accountable by all means. But when I had been there 3 years, one of the most quiet & respectful tenants, don’t decide one day to just get a wild hair and go on a spray paint and screaming rampage (I was NOT the only victim of Paul’s rampage this day) and I’d also like to add that afterwards they threatened to charge me $60 a day with no notice! I pleaded for them to just let me pay for a whole month (I even paid extra!) and luckily avoided that. And unsurprisingly, you are lying again saying it took many months to get me to leave. You screamed that I had a 30 day notice, yet never served me any papers (legal req in WA state to evict) and I left anyways in just over 30 days. Lies, gaslighting, more lies. You’ll find this and more at Blake’s Skagit Prison Park and boat launch. Have fun running the trailer park Lahey! There’s a special place in hell for landlords like you two. And reading all these other 1 star reviews I know I’m not the first victim and I certainly won’t be the last. The owners are petty, will nickel and dime you for everything. Paul (the husband) went on a spray paint rampage marking things he wanted people to move, and came and banged on my door drunk one evening right after I got home from work and asked why they did this, and started screaming at me because I hadn’t picked up my dogs poop from that morning (right behind my trailer - not in a publicly used area) and said that I was being evicted because of that. I was never served papers, but got out anyways because who wants to be around that? (On a side note, I was charged by their big off leash dog while walking my dog on leash on 3 separate occasions) This is not a “resort”, it’s a trailer park. It’s dusty, dirty, and stinky. They are always running heavy machinery around 7 days of the week. There’s been a giant pit and gravel pile in the middle of the drive in where their large propane tank is for at least the last 3 years. The owners have 2 shops located in the middle of their RV spaces where they are frequently banging away on equipment. The laundry machines are a joke, and do not wash or dry adequately. A lot of nights, the neighbors are up til almost midnight blasting music or working on their vehicles. There’s virtually no privacy. Some of the long term residents are really creepy, and will walk around just staring at people. All in all a horrible place to park, be it for a short or long term duration. Living there kind of felt like a fever dream, a world where everything is just slightly off and uncomfortable, and you’re always waiting for the next thing to go wrong or for something to burst into flame. I was charged nearly $1100 the last couple months I was there, for various fees and up charges based on nothing really. The spaces are worth $500 tops. In contrast, the surrounding area is beautiful, with 2 separate public beach access points that don’t see a lot of traffic, and Snow Goose Produce about a mile away.

Don't go here with tent. Not sure how good it is for RVs, but it's basically unsuitable for tent camping even though they advertise tent sites on their website. Small gravel pads, impossible to use pegs, no water taps for tents, very noisy in the night with boats passing literally meters from you till very late. On the other hand, it wasn't expensive.

When I called to make my reservation, they said they had a spot that would fit out travel trailer. When we got there, it was next to a large storage unit and on the other side it had a long fence. We barely were able to get our truck and trailer into the site. We couldn't hook up our hose for septic because we couldn't get close enough to the hook up. We stayed that night and left the next day. I called them to get our money back for the next three days that we were going to stay and they would not reimburse us. The camp ground was gross. Would not recommend this place at all.