Kinkaid Lake Village Marina & Campground

It is beautiful, the staff were very helpful and friendly. Will definitely be coming back!

Stayed at Ed Bottoms campground for three nights and ate at the Marina a couple of times. I found it be friendly and the service and food were both awesome.

Love this place. Friendly people with great follow up and reasonable prices.
Going again in 2 weeks and can't wait

Good place to go fishing.

I love the lake; however, I was treated very rudely by the campground host and did not feel welcome. It also seemed like the other campers at Ed Bottoms campground were a tight nit group and they did not want anyone new staying in their campground. I left a day early because of this and would recommend Lake Murphysboro State Park, which is just down the road, for camping near the lake. They are much more welcoming at the state park, and the campground there is terrific.

I understand the other bad reviews now. We were told we couldn't park our boat in the campsite like we have been doing for the last 6 years. We do not bring a camper, we tent camp in the electric campground to charge the boat batteries, use CPAP machines, etc. Explained that we didn't have a camper and we have lots of $$ in fishing gear in the boat, we are not ok with parking it off site. Got a wishy-washy story saying it was always a rule, then blamed it on new management, etc. This rule is NOT on the website. In the meantime, the campground was a madhouse. Cars parked everywhere, including in OUR site. Had to find the owners to move them. People blaring music and yelling at 2 am, amongst other things. All of which were rules being broken that ARE listed on their site. No one ever enforced these rules though. Reached out to them on their website explaining my frustrations and looking for an explanation, trying to give them a fair chance before I leave a review. Never got a response, so here I am. What a shame... We used to love this place.

Disgusting boats and terrible customer service!!!The staff, particularly one of the owners (I believe his name was Agan), were completely unprofessional and unhelpful. We had called ahead a few times and got different answers from each employee. They don't even know their own policies! And then we didn't get a single apology from anyone working about the mistakes THEY made!! The boat we received was so so so gross-- the carpet was soaked with algae and looked like it had literally never been cleaned. The price was unreasonable for the service and the boat we received. #NEVERAGAIN

Kinkaid lake is a beautiful lake with great fishing opportunities.

On the other hand, the permanent camp ground is a mess! Not exactly sure what to think about the situation, the current waiting list is unorganized and mismanaged.

It’s so sad that the new owners that took over in 2021 haven’t even updated the website. They still have the previous owners listed as the current owners. It was such a great place to go until the current owners took over. I guess this is what you get when a bunch of political appointees use tax payer money to show their ignorance. Sad.

If I could give Kinkaid Lake Marina 0 stars, I would. The employees who work there don’t know their own policies and choose to pin it on their customers instead of taking responsibility for their own actions. What a shame it was to talk to Agan. So disrespectful and unwilling to work with others. Not one worker tried to make our situation better by accommodating financially or in any other manner. How sad and embarrassing for them. And, after all that, we got a moldy, disgusting pontoon that was a slip-and-slide without water. Even more embarrassing for them. I’ll take my business to Little Grassy instead! Much nicer pontoons and people!

Called 10+ times no one ever answer the phone even thought there website says there open 24 hours