Very good holiday park, with immaculately clean facilities.

The campground has many permanent facilities (caravans with annex's built around them, meaning most sites are taken, but will often be empty. Very friendly hosts. Only issue staying here is the hoons/bogans on motorbikes and cars, either on the road or the beach - nothing wrong with the campground itself, which is excellent

Reviewed about 10 years ago

Good, reasonably priced campground ($12 for powered site for the family).

Great location by beautiful coastline, with children's playground on adjacent grassed area. Nice grassy site at end of road, so quiet. Facilities a bit tired but good hot showers

Reviewed about 10 years ago and experienced in July 2014

Small campsite, but very nice - immaculately maintained and very friendly owners.

Muffins on arrival was a very pleasant surprise. Each site is small, but there is heaps of shared space and the kids loved feeding the animals and exploring the property. A few Kms from the beach, but a lovely spot, and reasonably priced.

Reviewed over 10 years ago and experienced in February 2014

Small campground with very friendly owners - nice quiet atmosphere.

About 200 metres from the beach, which is mostly stony, but good swimming at low tide, when the flatter sandy part of the beach is exposed.

Reviewed over 10 years ago and experienced in February 2014

Nice campground with private access to golden sand beach.

The beach was very tidal (as is all of Golden Bay). Some sites had good shade, while others were a bit open. Facilities generally older, but very clean and well maintained, except the kids playground that could do with some work. Great café a short walk up the road, along with a couple of galleries

Reviewed over 10 years ago and experienced in February 2014

Excellent large campsite at the base of Tararua Forest Park - nice river and plenty of tracks to walk.

Surrounded by mature bush

Reviewed about 9 years ago and experienced in January 2014

This park is best suited to campervans, and not so much for children, as there are no kids facilities.

Nice, quiet except for road noise as right next to SH2, and easily the cleanest facilities at any campground I have seen (as clean as a good hotel!). Not as much around, so ideal as a base, but need to drive to get to shops etc

Reviewed almost 11 years ago

This is not 1 site but 3 separate sites that are run by the council for self contained campers.

Very cheap, permits can be picked up from a variety of locations. The northern site has toilets, but is closer to the road/skate park. The other 2 towards the southern end of the bay have no facilities but are quieter

Reviewed almost 11 years ago

Cramped in peak season, but a great spot next to a great beach.

We didn't stay the night, but are keen to stay another time outside of the Christmas seasoin

Reviewed almost 11 years ago

Nice spot near a great beach.

Seaweed etc seems to collect in the first 100 metres of the beach, but beyond is great. Basic toilet block is the only facility, but its free. We spent some time at the other end of the beach where holiday homes and the commercially run campground were, and retreated back here. Only problems were the high proportion of bogans .... but we were there on December 30/31

Reviewed almost 11 years ago

Great beach, need permit which can be obtained from several locations (eg Gisborne iSite).

Small area of land between main road and beach. In the peak season it is cramped and so you may end up next to the road ......we moved on but outside of peak season, get a site furthest away from road (eg right by the beach), where there are some good sites

Reviewed almost 11 years ago

No facilities, but a great spot to spend the night, right by the lake edge.

Lake was warm for swimming. Quiet spot with plenty of room

Reviewed almost 11 years ago

Nice campsite with no facilities - rural setting (some animal poo around) beside the Ruamahanga River with shade from manuka or kanuka trees.

Phone ahead if you want to camp.

Reviewed about 11 years ago

Small grassed section about 1 kilometer short of the beach, just as you come into Scotts Ferry.

Toilets not great, gents didn't have hand-basin. Both toilets and showers are in concrete water tanks. Kitchen seemed fine. Nice and cheap ($5 for non powered site for the family), but permanent caravans etc seemed to fill half the site and were in a state of disrepair. Seemed to have a bunch of strange long stay residents, which made for slightly uncomfortable atmosphere.

Custodians very friendly. Difficult to access the beach as sometimes you have to ford through 50-100m stretch of water just beyond the carpark.

Reviewed over 10 years ago and experienced in October 2013

Very good, very large campsite close to a river.

$6 adults, $3 kids. This is run by the Regional Council, but similar to DOC campsites.

Excellent walking tracks nearby, suitable for all ages, through pristine native bush.

Reviewed about 11 years ago

Pretty boring site, being a sealed carpark, but clean, tidy and excellent security, and plenty of space to park.

We arrived at 1am and the friendly security guy came past and checked within 5 minutes. Highly recommended if just stopping for a sleep and/or maybe a look through the excellent museum, but otherwise nothing else to see/do.

Reviewed about 11 years ago and experienced in August 2013

Bare, barren stony beach but reasonably isolated.

Plenty of space for many campervans - we were 150m from the nearest van. Slightly tricky to find as initially an old sign indicates no camping, but go past this onto the beach and a new sign indicates self contained campervans are welcome

Reviewed about 11 years ago and experienced in May 2013