Lakes Edge Holiday Park

Lakes Edge Holiday Park

4.1 351 reviews

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exteriors
BBQ signage
power sites
Church of the good shepard
Units in the snow
Lake Tekapo from our beach
Aqua Nots Balls
Kayaking
Looking down at the camp from Mt John
Lake Tekapo
Pedal Boats
Lake Tekapo

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Lakes Edge Holiday Park

Set along the picturesque shores of Lake Tekapo, our camping ground is the perfect place for a family getaway with a bed to suit everyone's budget.

Set along the picturesque shores of Lake Tekapo, our camping ground is the perfect place for a family getaway with a bed to suit everyone's budget.
-Power sites
-Non-powered sites
-Standard Cabins
-Kiwi Batches
-Ensuite Cabins
-Motel Units

We offer Wi-Fi, playground, bike hire, TV/guest lounge, kitchen facilities, toilet and showers, dump station and secure barrier arms.

Two minutes walk gives you access to hot pools, ice skating and tubing at Tekapo Spring. It's only a 10-15 minute walk to town and the walking tracks, fishing and boat facilities are endless. Roundhill ski field is only a 30 minute drive from the township.

Mt John Observatory is about 1hour walk to the top or a 15 minute drive.

There is a total fire ban in place here.

Accommodations

Details

Feature Value Info

Organisation

Lake Tekapo Holiday Park

Commercial organisation

Location

South IslandMount Cook - MacKenzieLake Tekapo

Categories

  • Activity__camping_grounds_holiday_parksCamping Grounds
  • Backpackers
  • Activity__dump_stationDump Station

Directions

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Coordinates

-44.0008413155209

170.464661121368

Latitude
-44.0008413155209
Longitude
170.464661121368

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Reviews

    • Nice service and stuff.

      Icon__personAngelika Bottcher

    • Was quite impressed by this place.

      Icon__personDan

    • Clean, nice people, everything worked well.

      Icon__personGertz

    • Beautiful setting.

      Icon__personMeganG

    • Clean site with a great location on the lake.

      Icon__personFrances L

    4.1 352 Reviews Analysis
  • An excellent location with the beautiful blue lake as the backdrop!

    Facilities are clean and kitchens easy to work in. Easy to drive to multiple sight seeing musts such as Mount Cook. Also close to star gazing opportunites at night. Would loved to have stayed longer and will definitely return.

    Reviewed 24 days ago

    Donna Kucera's avatar

    Donna Kucera

    Customer

  • A beautiful site in every way.

    Excellent facilities.

    Reviewed 23 days ago

    Jane Murphy's avatar

    Jane Murphy

    Customer

  • Awesome location on the southern lakefront.

    Clean, good amenities. Quiet.

    Reviewed 24 days ago

  • Outstanding campground and facilities.

    We enjoyed our multiple day stay. Perfect location for access to the town or track along the lake. Beautiful views.

    Reviewed 22 days ago and experienced in November 2025

  • Pricy but has a great view!

    Amenities are good.

    Reviewed 25 days ago and experienced in November 2025

    David Rydevik's avatar

    David Rydevik

    Customer

  • Good facilities

    Reviewed 23 days ago

  • Nice site.

    Was disappointed we didn’t get a view of the lake (we were up the back of the park), but not far to walk down to the lake. Facilities were well managed too

    Reviewed 25 days ago

    Bonnie Creek's avatar

    Bonnie Creek

    Customer

  • Up there with one of the best sites I’ve stayed in 3 months travelling round NZ.

    Firstly $30pp per night for a powered site in a tourist location like this is great, soo nice to have a solo rate, thanks.

    You can walk anywhere and everywhere, to the lake, into the village, to the church.

    Bathrooms are spotless and showers were hot and spacious.

    Lots of ducks and birds around the site too.

    Reviewed 6 months ago

    Rich's avatar

    Rich

    Customer

  • Quiet stay with good views and easy access to the lake.

    Quite packed in, but enjoyed having ducks and rabbits for company. Facilities are clean, fresh and good quality.

    Reviewed 11 months ago

    Debra Smith's avatar

    Debra Smith

    Customer

  • Positive: Beautiful surroundings, friendly staff, clean toilets, a nice BBQ area, and great hikes nearby.

    Negative: It’s a large campground, so it can feel crowded. The nights we stayed, there were people making noise until past midnight. Also, the toilet ventilation fans are very loud and run all night—you can hear them almost everywhere in the campground. We also noticed constant noise from the nearby swimming pool (a strange sound throughout the night).

    Suggestion: If possible, the owner could switch off (or reduce) the toilet fans after around 10 pm to make the campground much quieter for tent campers.

    Overall: I wouldn’t recommend this campground if you’re in a tent and looking for a quiet night.

    Reviewed 29 days ago and experienced in December 2025

    Jojo&Skoko's avatar

    Jojo&Skoko

    Customer

  • Its big!

    Very crowded and they leave a lot of lights on at night in a dark sky zone!

    Reviewed 22 days ago and experienced in November 2025

    Jim Tikalsky's avatar

    Jim Tikalsky

    Customer

  • Good place to stay to recharge, dump & shower.

    Access to the sites are through a boom gate, you get given the unlock code on payment.

    Flat sites in view of the lake, can pay more for a 'Lakes edge' view which just means you don't have anyone in front of you - still 100m or so from the actual water but you are uphill.

    The showers are on an 8 minute timer (I really don't get this given access to water is clearly not an issue), but they're clean & well maintained.

    Reviewed over 1 year ago

    Jen's avatar

    Jen

    Customer

  • Most amazing caravan park we’ve stayed at!

    We had a powered site block 39, clean and close to amazing facilities with a great view of the lake and mountains. The staff were lovely and extremely accomodating. Highly recommend. When you stay here you get 10% off the hot pools too that are worth it !

    Reviewed over 1 year ago

    Charlee d 's avatar

    Charlee d

    Customer

  • I was right up the top, views across the lake to the mountains were awesome but the wind and dust was ferocious!

    A small hill climb to get from my site to the facilities but I would do it again.

    They very kindly applied a single occupancy rate when I asked- not advertised on the website and very much appreciated.

    The bathrooms were modern and clean. 6 minute timer on the shower was a bit rough but I understand, otherwise the shower was great so at least it’s a quality 6 minutes! The kitchen was well set up but not big enough for the demand, even when the campground was at half capacity. I didn’t cook in there as there simply wasn’t space.

    Reviewed over 1 year ago

    Laura's avatar

    Laura

    Customer

  • You pay top dollar for the view not the site.

    I was there peak season. Small pitches, kitchen was rammed with people, showers were tepid. I was a

    fair way from the nearest water too. You could park by the lake and enjoy the view for a few hours instead.

    Reviewed about 1 year ago

    Pedro's avatar

    Pedro

    Customer

  • Our pitch had a marvellous view down the lake Perfect facilities

    Reviewed 3 days ago

    John Bamforth's avatar

    John Bamforth

    Customer

  • Its big!

    Very crowded and they leave a lot of lights on at night in a dark sky zone!

    Reviewed 22 days ago and experienced in November 2025

    Jim Tikalsky's avatar

    Jim Tikalsky

    Customer

  • Outstanding campground and facilities.

    We enjoyed our multiple day stay. Perfect location for access to the town or track along the lake. Beautiful views.

    Reviewed 22 days ago and experienced in November 2025

  • A beautiful site in every way.

    Excellent facilities.

    Reviewed 23 days ago

    Jane Murphy's avatar

    Jane Murphy

    Customer

  • Good facilities

    Reviewed 23 days ago

  • An excellent location with the beautiful blue lake as the backdrop!

    Facilities are clean and kitchens easy to work in. Easy to drive to multiple sight seeing musts such as Mount Cook. Also close to star gazing opportunites at night. Would loved to have stayed longer and will definitely return.

    Reviewed 24 days ago

    Donna Kucera's avatar

    Donna Kucera

    Customer

  • Awesome location on the southern lakefront.

    Clean, good amenities. Quiet.

    Reviewed 24 days ago

  • Pricy but has a great view!

    Amenities are good.

    Reviewed 25 days ago and experienced in November 2025

    David Rydevik's avatar

    David Rydevik

    Customer

  • Nice site.

    Was disappointed we didn’t get a view of the lake (we were up the back of the park), but not far to walk down to the lake. Facilities were well managed too

    Reviewed 25 days ago

    Bonnie Creek's avatar

    Bonnie Creek

    Customer

  • Positive: Beautiful surroundings, friendly staff, clean toilets, a nice BBQ area, and great hikes nearby.

    Negative: It’s a large campground, so it can feel crowded. The nights we stayed, there were people making noise until past midnight. Also, the toilet ventilation fans are very loud and run all night—you can hear them almost everywhere in the campground. We also noticed constant noise from the nearby swimming pool (a strange sound throughout the night).

    Suggestion: If possible, the owner could switch off (or reduce) the toilet fans after around 10 pm to make the campground much quieter for tent campers.

    Overall: I wouldn’t recommend this campground if you’re in a tent and looking for a quiet night.

    Reviewed 29 days ago and experienced in December 2025

    Jojo&Skoko's avatar

    Jojo&Skoko

    Customer

  • Up there with one of the best sites I’ve stayed in 3 months travelling round NZ.

    Firstly $30pp per night for a powered site in a tourist location like this is great, soo nice to have a solo rate, thanks.

    You can walk anywhere and everywhere, to the lake, into the village, to the church.

    Bathrooms are spotless and showers were hot and spacious.

    Lots of ducks and birds around the site too.

    Reviewed 6 months ago

    Rich's avatar

    Rich

    Customer

  • Quiet stay with good views and easy access to the lake.

    Quite packed in, but enjoyed having ducks and rabbits for company. Facilities are clean, fresh and good quality.

    Reviewed 11 months ago

    Debra Smith's avatar

    Debra Smith

    Customer

  • You pay top dollar for the view not the site.

    I was there peak season. Small pitches, kitchen was rammed with people, showers were tepid. I was a

    fair way from the nearest water too. You could park by the lake and enjoy the view for a few hours instead.

    Reviewed about 1 year ago

    Pedro's avatar

    Pedro

    Customer

  • Good place to stay if you want to do a night tour at Tekapo springs (highly recommend!

    :)) as you can just walk there.

    Great views but it’s very pricey for what you get - they surely know that they are the only campsite at the lake.

    Not enough facilities for the amount of guests, we had to stand in line to use the toilet in the morning or to wash our dishes after dinner and everything gets dirty real quickly as so many people use it.

    The showers have a timer and a two minute break before you can get hot water again which is really annoying if you want to wash your long hair.

    The sites are really close together and from a lot of them it’s a really long walk to the toilets (longest we ever had at a campsite).

    All in all an average and overpriced campsite, you pay for the location.

    Reviewed over 1 year ago

    Hannah's avatar

    Hannah

    Customer

  • The staff were friendly and fitted us in to what seems to be an overspill terrace on the left before the main campsite.

    If I had seen it before paying I would have gone elsewhere. There is barely any grass left on the pitches in November (so it will be a complete dustbowl by summer)and a dirt road through the middle so the minute anyone moves or the wind blows there are clouds of dust. Add the highway above the site into the mix and you have a recipe for a bad stay. My van is full of dust and I am leaving asap. The facilities and the view are good but cannot be enjoyed because of the actual site.

    Reviewed over 1 year ago

    Sue Peggs's avatar

    Sue Peggs

    Customer

  • Good place to stay to recharge, dump & shower.

    Access to the sites are through a boom gate, you get given the unlock code on payment.

    Flat sites in view of the lake, can pay more for a 'Lakes edge' view which just means you don't have anyone in front of you - still 100m or so from the actual water but you are uphill.

    The showers are on an 8 minute timer (I really don't get this given access to water is clearly not an issue), but they're clean & well maintained.

    Reviewed over 1 year ago

    Jen's avatar

    Jen

    Customer

  • Expensive for what it is (prob the most we’ve paid for unpowered site).

    Not enough facilities for the amount of spaces available (only place so far I’ve queued 10 mins for the toilet), Wi-Fi patchy. Was clean, and well maintained, but money for what you get felt a bit like being taken advantage as there’s so little places to stay in Tekapo.

    Reviewed over 1 year ago

    Stu's avatar

    Stu

    Customer

  • I was right up the top, views across the lake to the mountains were awesome but the wind and dust was ferocious!

    A small hill climb to get from my site to the facilities but I would do it again.

    They very kindly applied a single occupancy rate when I asked- not advertised on the website and very much appreciated.

    The bathrooms were modern and clean. 6 minute timer on the shower was a bit rough but I understand, otherwise the shower was great so at least it’s a quality 6 minutes! The kitchen was well set up but not big enough for the demand, even when the campground was at half capacity. I didn’t cook in there as there simply wasn’t space.

    Reviewed over 1 year ago

    Laura's avatar

    Laura

    Customer

  • Most amazing caravan park we’ve stayed at!

    We had a powered site block 39, clean and close to amazing facilities with a great view of the lake and mountains. The staff were lovely and extremely accomodating. Highly recommend. When you stay here you get 10% off the hot pools too that are worth it !

    Reviewed over 1 year ago

    Charlee d 's avatar

    Charlee d

    Customer

  • Stayed in August, extremely busy and the powered sites are very close together and not to mention muddy.

    Other than that, internet is crap. Those are the negatives, the positives were the view, location, facilities and friendliness of everyone there

    Reviewed over 1 year ago

    Dean's avatar

    Dean

    Customer