If it's like the Good Sam rally in Albuquerque, you're actually parked on the balloon field with the electric area next to the generator area and they get their electric from great big generators (and they charged an extra $30 a day - yes, a day - for their electric). There were some regular hookup sites but those were for the VIPs. We stayed in the generator area and it was ok. Some ran their gens until 11 on the dot and fired them up at 7 am on the dot. We usually just ran ours at night for an hour or so while we watched TV. Most people ran them for an hour in the morning and a couple of hours in the evening.
Generator vs. Electric vs. No Generator area - Depends on how much generators running bothers you. At the FMCA rally in Indio, we were next to a guy who ran his ALL DAY and his exhaust blew right in our door. We were wishing we were parked somewhere else. But it was cloudy so our solar panels would have been useless in the no generator area. And it wasn't the generator noise so much as the exhaust that bothered me. Last year in Indio, we were in the no hookup handicapped area and it wasn't bad at all. This year, we're going into the regular area and pay for electric - last year it was only $30 for the whole stay.
Wendy
Anza Borrego SP