Haumoana Domain
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Haumoana Domain
This location has lots of space, with shaded nooks and crannies around shrubs and trees, so you can choose your fav camping spot for the night.
It's next to the beach and also very handy to a 4 Square Superette, where you can purchase any essentials.
There's a recently installed, quality toilet block at the northern end of the camping area.
This is one of the really good ones. Please respect it and ensure it stays a good one for everyone to come :)
Pack and pack it out; use the excellent toilet facilities provided, deposit your grey water waste in approved dump stations.
Choice!
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North Island ▷ Hawkes Bay ▷ Hastings |
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Reviews
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3.5/5
Huge freedom campsite, good facilities, but some weird people down here and the beach is quite stony, have seen better campsites at the east coast of north island..
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5.0/5
Really lovely freedom camping site with lots of space.
Near the beach so you can hear the ocean which is so nice, and quiet too because its away from the road, trees and shrubs provide some level of privacy and further quiet too. Pick a grassy sheltered spot and enjoy! Only amenities we saw are toilets (no soap unfortunately - only downside) and fresh drinking water plus a few picnic tables too. Couple of landfill bins. Recycling is scarce around here...
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4.5/5
Great location with toilets and water.
You can hear the waves crashing on the shore as steep rocky beach.
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5.0/5
Second time staying here.
Arrived at 9.30pm, very quiet. The toilets are still very well maintained. Great with a dog. Thanks Hastings District Council!
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5.0/5
Lovely green park right next to the beach with clean bathrooms garbage collection and birdsong.
Thank you very much!
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5.0/5
Plenty of space!
Places with seaview are bit hilly and windy, but to the inlands are grassy and with plenty of trees and shade. Toilets were nicely cleaned in the morning.
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5.0/5
Wonderful little gem, beautiful..
Awesome tides at the beach, good surf, didn't catch a fish that day😁 really recommend this place, dog friendly, clean toilets.
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2.5/5
This such a lovely spot to park, the only thing that lets it down is all the people walking dogs off leads and crapping everywhere, we have an old dog who is anxious around other dogs, was very hard keeping
him happy with so many other dogs around. Some people just don't seem to care where their dog craps, we had one crap in front of our bus, after this we left and parked up the road at cliffton.
I know this is a dog park area but owners need to have good control of dogs, know where they are at all times and pick up after them.
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5.0/5
Absolutely gorgeous.
A bit difficult to find some hard standing in the wet but we got there eventually. Toilets are clean and modern and well lit. Beach is right next door, as is a coffee shop doing great pies and pastries. Couldn’t have asked for better really! Peaceful, quiet spot that we’d come back to in a heartbeat.
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5.0/5
Felt so lucky to be able to camp here!
Loads of space, picnic areas, clean toilets and just over the rise the beach. Not a swimming beach but there is surf by the river mouth for surfers.
Stayed here with our dog. There’s a really good cycle m/walking track that goes all the way to Napier.
Beautiful spot. Came back for another night.
And there’s good coffee just around the bend at Haumoana Coffee.
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3.5/5
Huge freedom campsite, good facilities, but some weird people down here and the beach is quite stony, have seen better campsites at the east coast of north island..
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5.0/5
Really lovely freedom camping site with lots of space.
Near the beach so you can hear the ocean which is so nice, and quiet too because its away from the road, trees and shrubs provide some level of privacy and further quiet too. Pick a grassy sheltered spot and enjoy! Only amenities we saw are toilets (no soap unfortunately - only downside) and fresh drinking water plus a few picnic tables too. Couple of landfill bins. Recycling is scarce around here...
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4.5/5
Great location with toilets and water.
You can hear the waves crashing on the shore as steep rocky beach.
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5.0/5
Second time staying here.
Arrived at 9.30pm, very quiet. The toilets are still very well maintained. Great with a dog. Thanks Hastings District Council!
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5.0/5
Lovely green park right next to the beach with clean bathrooms garbage collection and birdsong.
Thank you very much!
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5.0/5
Plenty of space!
Places with seaview are bit hilly and windy, but to the inlands are grassy and with plenty of trees and shade. Toilets were nicely cleaned in the morning.
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5.0/5
Wonderful little gem, beautiful..
Awesome tides at the beach, good surf, didn't catch a fish that day😁 really recommend this place, dog friendly, clean toilets.
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2.5/5
This such a lovely spot to park, the only thing that lets it down is all the people walking dogs off leads and crapping everywhere, we have an old dog who is anxious around other dogs, was very hard keeping
him happy with so many other dogs around. Some people just don't seem to care where their dog craps, we had one crap in front of our bus, after this we left and parked up the road at cliffton.
I know this is a dog park area but owners need to have good control of dogs, know where they are at all times and pick up after them.
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5.0/5
Absolutely gorgeous.
A bit difficult to find some hard standing in the wet but we got there eventually. Toilets are clean and modern and well lit. Beach is right next door, as is a coffee shop doing great pies and pastries. Couldn’t have asked for better really! Peaceful, quiet spot that we’d come back to in a heartbeat.
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2.5/5
A beautiful spacious park but spoilt by dodgy local dropouts.
Eg. Gun shots one night and cars wheel spinning another night. Regular visitors buying
certain products from car boots
Police shortage is apparent .
Non compliant homeless sleeping in cars they usually arrive late at night
After being there at least 10 times we have finally given up. 🙄
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5.0/5
Felt so lucky to be able to camp here!
Loads of space, picnic areas, clean toilets and just over the rise the beach. Not a swimming beach but there is surf by the river mouth for surfers.
Stayed here with our dog. There’s a really good cycle m/walking track that goes all the way to Napier.
Beautiful spot. Came back for another night.
And there’s good coffee just around the bend at Haumoana Coffee.
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4.5/5
We stayed here for one night and really loved it.
The toilet block was clean and well maintained.
There were loads of places to choose from, most were sheltered by trees. There were quite a few campers dotted about, as well as some cars parked up between bushes, but it was still very quiet!
It's also right by the beach! So nice to fall asleep to the sound of crashing waves.
There are no street lights or anything so it gets very dark at night.
We'll be back again for sure!
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4.5/5
Plenty of space for countless vehicles (large and small) lots of tree cover so not too noisy from the roads or waves.
No streetlights nearby so nice and dark at night. When we arrived the toilets were a state, but the cleaner came through in the morning and did such a great job! It looked amazing after! Who ever did the cleaning on the 28th November, bless you, fantastic mahi.
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4.5/5
Great spot, not far from central Napier.
We were looking for something that wasn’t a parking lot and this provided. Lovely clean facilities and plenty of room! Nice to fall asleep to the ocean and wake up to bird song
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5.0/5
Be aware, the beachfront spaces are not level at all and would make it rather difficult to sleep!
However, there is plenty of space to camp on the grass. With lots of shelter by the trees. Picnic tables available with good, clean, flushing toilets close by.
Just a short walk from the black sand beach.
Lovely spot…would definitely recommend!!
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5.0/5
Lovely large grassy area with trees and picnic tables.
2 modern flush toilets. Rubbish and recycling bins, drinking water (but not meant to refill your fresh water tank). 1 minute walk to the stone beach. Had a good swim in the waves with a superb view on Cape Kidnappers and Napier bay.
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5.0/5
Beautiful quiet spot.
Great clean facilities. We loved it! Easy spot to bike to a few wineries. Loves of native bird song.
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4.5/5
Lots of great sites amongst the trees, right by the beach and good walks or cycling by the river.
The existing toilet block is old but new one has been built though not operational yet.
Great spot, we will be back.
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5.0/5
Very nice place, lot of space for everybody, nice view to the sea and river outfall.
U can make nice walks around
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5.0/5
Loveliest place Ive camped on the northern island between Auckland and Wellington.
We were surrounded by trees and a short walk to the beautiful ocean. At first I was leary with some reviews of it being a gravel pit, but this was not the case at all. Absolutely breathtaking and peaceful.
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5.0/5
Stayed here Dec 2018 was told the council had done their duty and thought of the motor home self cont.
People. Well done folks
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3.0/5
The image of the grass is missleading, this gave us the impression you were parking on grass.
There were 3 decent parking places on grassy bits near the trees, the rest was effectively gravel.
None the less it ticked all our boxes, off the main road, had space, and some grass for our daughter to run around on. It had a toilet block and bins, but we are self contained anyway so was just used for quick visits.
Only reason to mark it down was for the miss-leading picture and that the nearby other car park had people playing loud music. All in all though, it was free and was quiet when we slept.
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4.0/5
Quiet spot 30 metre from the sea.
Toilets cleaned and rubbish removed daily. Can get muddy when it's wet. Always has some space available. Most people use Clifton Domain a kilometre or so down the road.
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3.0/5
Looked in on this camp but decided to move on, there was very limited places to camp, most the area was blocked off with barriers,and there was some very ruff looking lot camped there in a van and tent
that were not self contained.
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4.5/5
This campground is patrolled by a security company.
Don't try to camp there if you're not self-contained.
Otherwise perfect spot. Toilets are clean and it's right next to the water.
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4.0/5
Nice little camp ground with toilets, no direct sea view but very quiet, free and clean stayed there in December for 2 nights, perfect starting point for Cape Kidnappers.
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