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Top Ranked Holiday Parks
The good folk from holiday parks work hard to help you relax with all the facilities you need. You'll find all the camping conveniences at these locations. Expect powered campervan sites, hot showers, serviced facilities and often much more.
Only camping grounds which are non-commercial or on a paid plan are included below. You can view all the camping grounds in NZ on the Camping NZ map.
Location is Everything
Holiday parks in NZ live and die by where they're sitting. The best ones earn their place - riverside among kahikatea trees like the Pelorus Bridge campsite, right on the lakefront at Te Anau, or with a view of the Southern Alps that almost nothing else in the country can touch, like Glentanner down in the MacKenzie. Then there are the beachside ones near Oamaru and the Kaikoura Region where the site itself is the drawcard. My advice - don't just park up and stay put. Use the facilities, then get out and explore. At Kaikoura especially, the holiday park is a base, not the destination.
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Time It Right
Peak season - roughly Dec 27th to mid-January - changes things significantly. Some of the best spots, like Kaiteriteri in Nelson, go from premium to packed in that window. The same goes for places up and down both islands. Outside those four or five weeks though, you'll often have genuinely stunning sites largely to yourself. That's when holiday parks really deliver. The Queenstown options and Wanaka TOP 10 are solid year-round picks if you want something reliably well-run near the action.
The good ones tend to have character - an owner who actually gives a damn, a pizza oven, an eel in the river out back, or a view that proper hotels would charge triple for. That's what separates a great holiday park from just a place to dump the van. Across the West Coast especially, spots like Gentle Annie and the Punakaiki Beach Camp have that feel. Worth seeking out.
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