Something a little different, a huge area where you can stop and set up wherever you like.

Plenty of clean long drop toilets, fresh water and a minutes walk to the sea across white sands.

Managed by Ray and Cindy, very pleasant hosts. Cost $13 pp a night. We were provided with a rubbish bag and told we could dispose of that and recycled stuff at the exit gate on the way out.

No power but there are hot and cold showers. Very nice.

Reviewed over 3 years ago and experienced in May 2019

We arrived Easter Thursday with our caravan and stayed over night.

The place was absolutely full of mainly camper vans.

Ten thousand people and only one long drop toilet. As we’re in our mid 70’s, it was most ‘convenient’ pardon the pun, to park by the only bog in town. Then when we could see the queue had stopped temporally, we were in like Flynn. We do have an onboard toilet but poo still smells like poo! Ugh.

The long drop was very clean and no smell. Do NOT forget to take paper or you’ll wind up like Robinson Crusoe and opt for a finger, haaa ha.

It was a very pleasant place to stay, awesome views and no cost, a pensioners dream come true.

Reviewed over 3 years ago and experienced in April 2019

What a lovely camp, helpful and friendly management and staff, nice clean abloutions and amazing views.

The sites we had all had their own grey water drain, water supply and power, magic.

I can not understand whingers that cry on about camp fees, hey if you’re that poor go camp in a farmers paddock, I’m pleased I don’t have you for a neighbour. Get over it

Reviewed over 3 years ago and experienced in April 2019

A lovely little freedom camp, two clean flush toilets and easy access to a lovely white sand beach.

We are so luck to have these places in NZ.

Reviewed over 3 years ago and experienced in April 2019

My comments are the same as Brad.

It’s old but clean and it cost us $31.50 a night for two adults on a power site with NZMCA discount. The office lady was lovely and wasn’t Hitler like some are, we had a lovely stay.

Not many sites are near the water tap.

Ray and Cynthia. Rotorua

Reviewed over 3 years ago and experienced in April 2018

A lovely clean, friendly camp with great facilities, right by the rolling surf.

$44 a night, nice lady at reception, we stayed here two years ago and I am pleased the standards and cleanliness continue, Most certainly 10/10

Reviewed over 3 years ago and experienced in April 2018

Sour woman at reception, the world owed her.

No free wi-fi. The rubbish skips were overflowing and full of roaches, an absolute disgrace. It is full of weirdo perms and looks like the main site out of Chainsaw massacre!

Right by the train tracks and they went half the night, we will never be going back there again, now I know what it’s like to live in the ghetto.

No discount on NZMCA $45 a night in Winter!

Reviewed over 3 years ago and experienced in April 2018

A very nice camp apart from our caravan site was very boggy, still that’s life.

Friendly staff, $31.50 for two on a power site with NZMCA discount. Clean toilets and showers.

I loved all the massive eels and the biggest would have been so welcome in my smoker but the eel police have a sign up No Fishing, lucky eels and trout, haaaa haaa.

Reviewed over 3 years ago and experienced in April 2018

Despite some negative reports on this fantastic website, I was beginning to think maybe we'll pass this camp by, but I'm pleased we didn't.

We've never been here before but will definitely come again. Jenny Barlow greeted us and husband Harry guided us on his quad to our site on the hill. Yes, he wants you to park just so, he's that sort of a guy, but he was very friendly and we treated him as our host. We had a fun exchange of banter over thirty minutes before setting up our caravan. There were friendly tame goats tethered around the camp eating up the grass on the banks where the mower couldn't reach. Yes, some of the the camp facilities are a little tired and could use some extra TLC, the owners have been here 23 years and I guess they are a little over it, as I would be.

Realise that you are camping for a couple of days or just over night, so make the most of your stop over and quit moaning about the little things, have a wine and enjoy the fact you are alive and enjoying this beautiful moment in time.

The harbour views are wonderful, the fee of $20 per person for a power site with water is very competitive. No wi-fi, so..... buy your own hotspot device if you need wi-fi, I have.

Reviewed over 3 years ago and experienced in May 2016

Admittedly the camp had been severely flooded only two weeks prior, when the river overflowed, so there was still mud and clay all over the place and on some of the sites, so this was walked into showers

and toilet blocks. The office staff were very helpful. We had a reasonable view of the glacier, we probably won't stay there again all the same.

Reviewed over 3 years ago and experienced in April 2016

A lovely secluded camp, each caravan site has its own little unit consisting of a shower, toilet and handbasin, outside water and power supply and your own dump station, amazing, I've never seen that

before. $40 for two adults, good price. Highly recommend it.

Reviewed over 3 years ago and experienced in April 2016

The sites were small and it cost $50 a night.

The people there were filling in for the owners and were very obliging. The facilities were nice and clean. Here is a good bit of advice, if you find chestnuts on the ground, just up above the spa pool complex, DON'T eat them. They look like the regular sweet ones but they are horse chestnuts and poisonous! Being a bit of a scavenger, I collected and cooked some up, one bite fixed me. Looking on the net it was a big no-no. A handy place to stay to catch the ferry.

Reviewed over 3 years ago and experienced in April 2016

A lovely camp, nice front reception people, great facilities, we had a site viewing the estuary and the toilet block right there was the tops, also dump station along side, we will go back for sure.

Reviewed over 3 years ago and experienced in March 2016