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Brigit Pratt
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South Island ▷ West Coast ▷ Franz Josef ▷
Orange Sheep
What would have once been an awesome place is now sadly getting a little neglected.
We stayed here for 4 nights during heavy rain and road closures and have not seen 1 single person to service the place. Rubbish bins were literally overflowing already on the day we arrived.
Very well priced though.
Quite sad really that Franz Josef as a whole is turning into a bit of a ghost town.....all thanks to Covid.
Hi Brigit
Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately there is only one Rubbish collection company in the town and they only come once a week due to Covid, this is not normally an issue unless we get a "busy" rush - I am sorry it negativing impacted your stay. Our team come and go and do there best to keep the place clean each day, I assume you were out having fun during the day when things got cleaned.
Orange Sheep
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North Island ▷ Manawatu - Wanganui ▷ Woodville ▷
Woodville Ferry Reserve
Amazing huge grassy area to park up....right by the river.
We did the Gorge track from there.....and went for a swim in the River after....pretty amazing! More signage is needed though ad to where the track actually starts.
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North Island ▷ Wairarapa ▷ Featherston ▷
Lake Domain Reserve
Nice large area right by the lake.
What's letting it down a bit are all the permanent parked up vehicles and a pile of rubbish bags on a big heap by the toilets. Can be very windy too.
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North Island ▷ Coromandel ▷ Whitianga ▷
Omara Boat Ramp Reserve
Nice grassy area.
Had the whole place to ourselves on a Saturday. Propably wouldn't recommend coming during the week though as there is a big housing development going on right next door. Could get quite noisy with all the diggers that we're parked up there when we stayed.
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North Island ▷ Bay of Plenty ▷ Omokoroa ▷
Pahoia Domain
Beautiful area right on the Waterfront.
We were lucky to secure a spot right adjacent to the grassy area. Very calm and quiet and the toilet there is definitely a bonus.
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North Island ▷ Rotorua Region ▷ Tarawera ▷
Lake Ōkāreka Campsite
Very expensive for a DOC campsite with basically no facilities apart from a Long drop loo.
Interesting also that we turned up at around 5.30pm and less than 10 minutes later the "contractiol" warden turned up to collect the fee of $15 per person. What a rip off.....might ad well go to the Top 10 for a fraction more.
Interesting also that 2 more vehicles pulled in at around 10pm and nobody turned up to collect their fees. Weird.....yes it's a lovely spot by the lake but please make it fair for everybody!
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North Island ▷ Waikato ▷ Cambridge ▷
Keeleys Landing
Had a very similar experience to KB below in June 21.
Got quite uncomfortable there as we were the only ones parked up there.
Same scenario with a guy in a car just doing odd stuff.