Gunns Historical Hollyford Valley Camp
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Gunns Historical Hollyford Valley CampCommercial organisation |
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South Island ▷ Fiordland ▷ Te Anau |
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Operating Season And Hours |
Temporarily closed due to flood damage. |
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Camping Grounds
Reviews
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4.0/5
Nice place, mainly because it is different from normal camps!
And they did their best to do so, see museum, and other very funny things around. Sandfly's will welcome you, but hey, you're in Fjordland. Beautiful setting beside the river. Very good location to be in Milford Sound early, and for all the tramping in the area! Facilities are basic, no wifi.
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3.0/5
Lovely setting but the sandflies caused mayhem.
Sadly this spoilt the day. Basic clean amenities. Bit dated though. Kitchen basic. Could cool off in river but water was extremely fresh. Closer to Milford Sound so guess that’s a bonus. Lovely dark night so had there been no mist the stars would have been superb.
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4.0/5
Beautiful location, neat and tidy, good facilities, friendly staff.
Well worth the price slightly higher than DOC basic.
No cell phone coverage, no WiFi, but lots of sandflies of course.
Funny signboards, cartoons and „artwork“ all over the place :-)
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4.5/5
Best option if you are taking an early cruise the next morning but don't want to say at the holiday park in town, it's about 45 mins away from the cruise parking areas.
Lots to make you smile around the place and a free museum, but lots of sand files! Price wise it's $20 per person a night (went up after the DOC raised their sites to $13) but worth paying the extra (they take card payments) as there are hot showers, flushing toilets, basic kitchen with free gas hops (about 7 twin sets of hobs, byo cooking equipment). Lovely river running at the bottom and great views. Only thing holding it back is no power hook up as no mains electricity, but charging point for gadgets in the evenings.
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3.5/5
It was cold but beautiful place, kitchen is crowded.
But be careful when driving, the road to the campground is fulled of holes and not flat, we got a flat tyres when we drive out.
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2.0/5
Nice rustic cabins.
more room in double ones. Friendly staff. Beautiful forest. We were unhappy though discovering that we could not lock our cabin from the outside due to no padlock or key. This was really disappointing because we wanted to store our valuables i.e. camera gear, tramping pack and other items while going for walk etc. We were expecting we would have the security of the cabin. Good toilet facilities however in the kitchen/lounge area down by the river. Would have preferred separate blocks for male and female showers. The road was in really bad condition, lots of deep potholes. Lots of sandflies but didnt really bother us. Great location to walks etc
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4.5/5
Very cool place to go to the middle of the mountain, with river on one side, 45 minutes from Milford.
Lots of humor, they warm the water for the shower with wood. $15 per person.
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4.5/5
We payed $30 for two.
Could use showers and kitchen. The kitchen was very full the night we stayed there so we just cooked in the van. Small museum. Great place to stay if going up to Milford the next morning and less expensive than staying in the Milford campground. Drove on a dirt road for a while but everything is well marked.
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4.0/5
Nice place, mainly because it is different from normal camps!
And they did their best to do so, see museum, and other very funny things around. Sandfly's will welcome you, but hey, you're in Fjordland. Beautiful setting beside the river. Very good location to be in Milford Sound early, and for all the tramping in the area! Facilities are basic, no wifi.
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3.0/5
Lovely setting but the sandflies caused mayhem.
Sadly this spoilt the day. Basic clean amenities. Bit dated though. Kitchen basic. Could cool off in river but water was extremely fresh. Closer to Milford Sound so guess that’s a bonus. Lovely dark night so had there been no mist the stars would have been superb.
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4.0/5
Beautiful location, neat and tidy, good facilities, friendly staff.
Well worth the price slightly higher than DOC basic.
No cell phone coverage, no WiFi, but lots of sandflies of course.
Funny signboards, cartoons and „artwork“ all over the place :-)
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2.0/5
Nice rustic cabins.
more room in double ones. Friendly staff. Beautiful forest. We were unhappy though discovering that we could not lock our cabin from the outside due to no padlock or key. This was really disappointing because we wanted to store our valuables i.e. camera gear, tramping pack and other items while going for walk etc. We were expecting we would have the security of the cabin. Good toilet facilities however in the kitchen/lounge area down by the river. Would have preferred separate blocks for male and female showers. The road was in really bad condition, lots of deep potholes. Lots of sandflies but didnt really bother us. Great location to walks etc
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3.5/5
It was cold but beautiful place, kitchen is crowded.
But be careful when driving, the road to the campground is fulled of holes and not flat, we got a flat tyres when we drive out.
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4.5/5
Best option if you are taking an early cruise the next morning but don't want to say at the holiday park in town, it's about 45 mins away from the cruise parking areas.
Lots to make you smile around the place and a free museum, but lots of sand files! Price wise it's $20 per person a night (went up after the DOC raised their sites to $13) but worth paying the extra (they take card payments) as there are hot showers, flushing toilets, basic kitchen with free gas hops (about 7 twin sets of hobs, byo cooking equipment). Lovely river running at the bottom and great views. Only thing holding it back is no power hook up as no mains electricity, but charging point for gadgets in the evenings.
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2.0/5
Arrived here late with low petrol only to find out that they did not accept EFTPOS - we didn't see anywhere that mentioned this.
We scraped enough change together to pay. Clean communal lounge with wood burning fire place but make sure you can keep yourself entertained as there is no TV or radio. No electricity, generator only on for 4 hours a day in the evening (6-10pm). Gas stoves available for cooking but except for one frying pan and camping kettles there is no equipment to cook or eat with.
No doubt the constant rain put a dampener on our stay but felt that the facilities could be better, such as the kitchen but we enjoyed the very quirky camp with its own history on show.
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2.5/5
Although the staff were friendly, and this place has quirky charm, it is not worth the hype.
We were going to stay there 3 nights and ended up staying only one. First the place was full of teenagers. They overtook the kitchen, which had multiple stoves with no gas, and left a mess everywhere. But the worse reason was the sandflies. We had stayed in many locations prior and barely noticed them, but here we were absolutely attacked. We awoke early in the morning just to leave the site since we couldn't cook without them flying into our food. Opinion - stay up the road around Te Anau. This place is not worth it at all.
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4.5/5
We payed $30 for two.
Could use showers and kitchen. The kitchen was very full the night we stayed there so we just cooked in the van. Small museum. Great place to stay if going up to Milford the next morning and less expensive than staying in the Milford campground. Drove on a dirt road for a while but everything is well marked.
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4.5/5
Very cool place to go to the middle of the mountain, with river on one side, 45 minutes from Milford.
Lots of humor, they warm the water for the shower with wood. $15 per person.
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3.0/5
We stayed here for the kitchen but it was just electric hot plates on top of the counter with a sink.
No means of cooking or any pans etc. The showers were hot which was a bonus but overall we weren't impressed with this site.
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5.0/5
Definitely recommended.
Showers, bathrooms, kitchen and dining room are all clean and available to all be it tent, cabin, campervan. Family is very friendly, even loaned me a tool when I had a car issue there.
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4.5/5
A site with a character!
Recommended. Not only close to Milford Sound, but also green, by a river, and with lots of jokes built into the campground (you'll see). 15$ per person, power at the powered site didn't work.
