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North Island ▷ Hawkes Bay ▷ Hastings ▷
Hastings TOP 10 Holiday Park
Despite a lovely campground environment nice friendly staff can’t recommend the facility, gripes are as follows.
Stayed in both a 2bd & 3bd units during recent Jan 2021 stay, experienced:Heaps of flies in each unit, arrived to a half dozen or so & because of ingrained filth they just kept coming back each day. Leave a window or door open for long units filled with flies. Cockroach infestation. Running along the floors, across oven tops when cooking, in shower when washing, in bed when sleeping. Sticky filthy floors. They made bare feet soles black walking on the carpet inside, clearly heaps of ingrained dirt in carpets. 3bd unit had a spa but colour of the water was to hideous to get into. Suspect riddled with bacteria. No smell of chlorine like you’d expect.
Sticky floors and bench tops in 3bd unit. Some surfaces clearly hadn’t been washed down in months eg top of fridge, shelves, window sills.Couldn’t run heat pump it blew out deep fat filthy smelling air. Suspect filter never cleaned.Camp ground had outdoor swimming pool, but way way to cold for swimming in, only adrenaline filled kids game. Told heating got turned off over summer months. Shame that was one of the attractions with booking. Curtains in unit stunk and filthy
Unit BBQ filthy, carcinogenic burnt remains, long since ever cleaned properly and utensils chained on so couldn’t take inside to wash them properly. Window & door joinery looked about seventy years old and literary falling apart, rattled & wind blow through keeping one awake at night. Shower unit mouldy and filthy.
Pots and pans in cupboard dirty with food from previous guests. Cleaners seen before occupying units but clearly did an appalling job.
A hundred & one other little things like missing kitchen utensils that you would expect to be there, poor TV reception, washing machine but no washing powder, broken bits of furniture and walls etc $380 per night way way overpriced, worth more like $80
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North Island ▷ Wellington Region ▷ Paraparaumu ▷
Paekakariki Holiday Park
Pretty disappointing visit.
Facilities would be struggling to make one star level. Terribly pungent smell in tourist flat stayed in, spent considerable time afterwards having to wash everything we took into the unit to get the smell off them, clothes, bedding etc. Mouldy musty dead corpse type smell. It hit you in back of throat every time you walked into the unit, yet motel type prices. Lovely camp ground setting just getting very tired and run down in places. A million and one little things also frustrating, like missing condiments in unit, hot water running out or switching off quickly in the shower, dead bugs in fridge, TV at near ceiling height behind bunk bars obstructing view, grumpy office staff exhibiting little customer service, the extra mortgage one would need to take out to use the user pays laundry facilities, noisey fridge keeping you awake at night, oh and did I mention the crazy roster thats not afraid of humans!, attacks you and wakes you up crowing at about 5am in morning. All in all a pretty disappointing accomodation and consequently holiday experience, couldn't recommend. 1 out of 10 sorry.