RV Park Sites vs Duda for an RV park website.

What Duda is

Duda is a hosted website builder aimed at agencies and resellers rather than owners. An agency signs up, builds sites for dozens of clients from Duda's templates and widgets, and often presents the result under its own brand. Duda's own direct plans, as of this writing, start around $19 a month for a basic site and about $39 for a team plan, billed yearly, with agency tiers above that. It has solid templates, a client-editing mode, decent page speed, and standard search tools.

If a marketing company built your park's site in the last five years and you never heard the word WordPress, there is a fair chance it is Duda.

Where Duda works for a park

• The agency is good and you plan to stay. A competent agency on Duda can deliver a clean site quickly and keep it updated as part of a monthly plan.
• You want to edit some things yourself. Duda's client editor lets an owner change text and photos without breaking the layout.
• Speed matters and the agency cares. Duda pages are lighter than Wix and can score well on mobile if built with restraint.

Where Duda falls short for a park

• The site is in someone else's account. Most agency-built Duda sites belong to the agency's Duda subscription. Stop paying the agency and the site goes offline. You keep the domain, if you registered it, and nothing else.
• No export. Duda does not export a site to another platform. Leaving Duda means rebuilding, every time.
• The price is the agency's, not Duda's. You pay what the agency charges, commonly $100 to $300 a month, for a site that costs them $10 to $30 a month to host. Sometimes that includes real work. Sometimes it is a template with your logo.
• Templates, again. Duda's are built for general small business. A park's questions, site lengths, hookups, the road in, the season, get fitted into a template designed for a dentist.
• Search is whatever the agency does. Some agencies do it well. Many set the titles once and never return. The town pages for every nearby city that were common in this model are now marked down by Google.
• Booking is an embed. Same as every builder: the reservation platform is linked or embedded, and the agency maintains it, or does not.

What the real cost looks like

A park on an agency's Duda plan usually pays $100 to $300 a month, sometimes with a setup fee, and often on a contract. For that, the site is hosted and, depending on the agency, updated. When the park leaves, the site goes with the agency.

Ours is $85 a month with no build fee. Built for your kind of park, connected to your reservation system, maintained by us, and yours: the site, the source code, the domain, and the content. If you leave, you take it with you and host it anywhere. That is the single biggest difference between this and an agency Duda site, and it is the one to ask any agency about before signing.

What you get with us that a Duda agency site cannot

• Ownership you can prove. You get the source. Not a login to an editor, the actual files.
• A build for parks, by people who build only for parks. We know what a gateway park guest asks and what a monthly guest asks, because that is all we do.
• A flat price with no contract games. Twelve months minimum, then month to month. Pay the year up front and get two months free.
• Listings, reviews, and the printed park map in the Listings + Reviews band.
• A phone number that a person answers.

When to stay on Duda

If your agency is responsive, the site is current, the search results are good, and the monthly is fair, stay. Ask them one question first: what happens to the site if I leave. If the answer is that it goes away, you are renting, and it is worth knowing. If you move to us, we rebuild from your content, keep your page addresses with redirects, and move the domain.