We have family in Sun City, so KGEU was the appropriate choice for our flight down there. The AFB being just to the West is no big deal at all, and their controllers are like most AFB's, top-notch and friendly.
Also have a friend down there who keeps his C-150 over at KDVT because there's some ****ing match going on about the hangars at KGEU, and they have ridiculous pricing on their sun cover "hangars".
I think a lot of private owners would happily move over to KGEU if the prices weren't almost double. Someone running that place has their head square up and locked, looking at the pricing he showed me vs. what he's paying over at KDVT.
It's not a situation where KDVT is "far out of town" or anything like that either, which typically means lower prices. KDVT is over-run with Chinese flight schools, and traffic. KGEU is nice and quiet, most days. And there's some collector there who's bought a bejillion older aircraft and they're all in various states of dis-assembly/re-assembly on the ramp, often not in hangars. Seems to be a continuation of this weird hangar-pricing thing they have going on, if you ask me.
There is one flight school on KGEU that caters to the Chinese students. They all need 10 hours of turbo-prop time before they go home, and there's a fleet... a big fleet... of King Airs parked over there that go in and out regularly.
The FBO at the northwest corner of the ramp is full of very nice folks, and they took good care of us (including bringing the rental car right out) while we were there. The only more attentive, helpful, service I've had from an FBO as a transient was at KHND.
