Old Bones Backpackers
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Reviews
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Friendly host -
Clean facilities
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Quiet and private
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Great location by the beach
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Affordable rates
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A beautiful, quiet place overlooking the ocean.
Ruedi Port -
What a great find.
Rich -
Lovely well kept place with friendly host.
Ti -
Was everything we were looking for!
Tammy Lee -
This place was great!
Sarah Gurney
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What a great find.
A couple of km off the main road down by the beach road.
Grant who runs it is a lovely fella.
Looks like he’s done this place up, now a few powered sites, the lodge and some beautiful hot tubs.
There is 1 bathroom for campers with a toilet and shower cubicle. It’s clean, it’s warm, it’s a nice way to start the day!
The place was soo lovely and quiet, the beach is a beauty, sea mist galore.
$30 for a powered site.
Highly recommended.
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Lovely well kept place with friendly host.
Super quiet, called ahead but was surprisingly only 1 other van there. $20 for 2 people unpowered site, really nice private hot tubs for $70 that we got to soak in for nearly 3 hours with a partial sea view and a little stream.
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Beautiful small place to stay, nice and clean showers, not as expensive as indicated (30$ for a powered site).
Hot tubs if you want to for extra costs
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Fantastic little place to stay, super tranquil and quiet.
It’s right by the beach, which is full of interesting rocks and fossils. My partner and I called Grant up around 5pm and were able to get a spot without any problems. 30$ for a powered site for the both of us, and there was only one other camper staying there. Grant was very friendly and welcoming. Toilet and shower were super clean and felt very luxurious — great water pressure. Would definitely recommend this place!
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I booked this Lodge for my family and friends to celebrate my 6oth birthday.
It could not have been better! Such a gorgeous location, very clean and tidy,warm and cosy and Grant and Karen were so lovely to deal with. I would highly recommend it as a perfect location for family and friends get together. We stayed two nights and it was perfect.
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Was everything we were looking for!
Very quiet and private (few other campervans), wide open peaceful spaces, really modern and clean shower and toilet. Hot showers. Grant was also such a responsive and delightful host and the property is well cared for.
One of the best places we stayed and for us so much preferred to busy cramped top 10 Holiday Parks. Just note you may not have access to kitchen facilities, which we didn’t mind since we had that in our van.
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We’ve been traveling around in a camper van for a while now and we have stayed at many Holiday Parks.
This is by far the best, cleanest, well manicured, and friendly Park we have stayed at! Don’t let the old reviews discourage you from coming here. Highly recommended.
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Have just stayed at Old Bones Lodge in our caravan and found Grant to be very accomodating.
The whole place looked great. They have 6 lovely and private hot tubs which are available to hire. He certainly didn’t have a problem with campervans or caravans as the previous reviewers posted 3-6 years ago. Ownership has changed since those reviews. We would certainly recommend staying here.
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This place was great!
The facilities were really what made it. Clean bathrooms, hot showers, brilliant kitchen and the icing on the cake was the lovely lounge area complete with a wood burning stove. It was great to settle down on the sofas for the evening and make use of the free WiFi. The camping spots weren't anything to write home about - our unpowered spot was just in the carpark. But with such lovely facilities it didn't matter!
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A beautiful, quiet place overlooking the ocean.
A unique architectural design for a hostel-like accomodation: Two rows of four simple small bedrooms, each with a door opening outside and inside, embrace a lovely really spacious living area with glass walls to the ocean, dining tables, sofas, chairs, fireplace, and a generously equipped cooking section. Although we stayed in a campervan on a powered site nearby, we walked over to the building for every cup of coffee to enjoy the living area with the ocean room. Two nice sculptures outside and the landscaping complete a rare combination of human-made and natural beauty. Friendly owner. - Yellow-eyed and blue penguin colonies within a few minutes driving.
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A great start to our campervan experience.
A fantastic welcome from the owners, great facilities, a beautiful beach opposite the campsite and only 5 mins away from Oamaru, Steampunk HQ and the Penguins. If your passing through, you won't do better than this place
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Small campground near the beach with excellent camp kitchen and cosy lounge area plus free WIFI.
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When we arrived at the lodge Gloria, the owner of the lodge, was very friendly and explained us where we could see penguins.
And she told us that we can use the lodge facilities, not only the showers and toilets but also the kitchen and the living room. We had free wifi and enjoyed the night at the nice site.
The price was one of the cheapest we paid and the location is awesome.
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If I have something to tell about this place, JUST GO!
It's one of our favorite place we stayed arround south island!
Stayed 2 nights there in january with our small campervan. Owers are very kind. They helped me to find back my forgotten wallet 250km away! (a lot of work to arrange the way I can find it back without driving)
Place is just next to a beautifull wild beach, in the middle of the field with a lot of animals arround (bird, cheeps, cows...)
Sites are powered, free wifi is in the meeting house, a beautifull house, with outstanding view, big and perfect kitchen, confortable sofa to rest, chimney when it's cold, bathroom and shower are like in a 5 stars hotel, hot water without counting...
10 minutes you have the yellow eyes pinguins colony and the blue pinguins, so if you have somewhere to stay in Oamaru, it should be definitively this place!
Even for the 20$ / person (hot water, powered site, free wifi, computer with internet, really good accomodation), it worth it when you want a place to rest and enjoy arround!
Thanx again!
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What a great find.
A couple of km off the main road down by the beach road.
Grant who runs it is a lovely fella.
Looks like he’s done this place up, now a few powered sites, the lodge and some beautiful hot tubs.
There is 1 bathroom for campers with a toilet and shower cubicle. It’s clean, it’s warm, it’s a nice way to start the day!
The place was soo lovely and quiet, the beach is a beauty, sea mist galore.
$30 for a powered site.
Highly recommended.
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Lovely well kept place with friendly host.
Super quiet, called ahead but was surprisingly only 1 other van there. $20 for 2 people unpowered site, really nice private hot tubs for $70 that we got to soak in for nearly 3 hours with a partial sea view and a little stream.
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Fantastic little place to stay, super tranquil and quiet.
It’s right by the beach, which is full of interesting rocks and fossils. My partner and I called Grant up around 5pm and were able to get a spot without any problems. 30$ for a powered site for the both of us, and there was only one other camper staying there. Grant was very friendly and welcoming. Toilet and shower were super clean and felt very luxurious — great water pressure. Would definitely recommend this place!
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Beautiful small place to stay, nice and clean showers, not as expensive as indicated (30$ for a powered site).
Hot tubs if you want to for extra costs
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I booked this Lodge for my family and friends to celebrate my 6oth birthday.
It could not have been better! Such a gorgeous location, very clean and tidy,warm and cosy and Grant and Karen were so lovely to deal with. I would highly recommend it as a perfect location for family and friends get together. We stayed two nights and it was perfect.
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Was everything we were looking for!
Very quiet and private (few other campervans), wide open peaceful spaces, really modern and clean shower and toilet. Hot showers. Grant was also such a responsive and delightful host and the property is well cared for.
One of the best places we stayed and for us so much preferred to busy cramped top 10 Holiday Parks. Just note you may not have access to kitchen facilities, which we didn’t mind since we had that in our van.
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We’ve been traveling around in a camper van for a while now and we have stayed at many Holiday Parks.
This is by far the best, cleanest, well manicured, and friendly Park we have stayed at! Don’t let the old reviews discourage you from coming here. Highly recommended.
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Have just stayed at Old Bones Lodge in our caravan and found Grant to be very accomodating.
The whole place looked great. They have 6 lovely and private hot tubs which are available to hire. He certainly didn’t have a problem with campervans or caravans as the previous reviewers posted 3-6 years ago. Ownership has changed since those reviews. We would certainly recommend staying here.
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