Standard Camping Ground, like you remember from the 1960/70.

Small but adequate facilities, a few showers, smallish kitchen etc.

Bring the kids bikes, cricket set & soccer balls and you wont see them for hours. No bouncing pillows, sandpits, jungle gyms and no Top10 extortionate pricing either.

Briefly, its clean, tidy, small and cheap.

Reviewed almost 11 years ago and experienced in April 2013

Not that much room to park, plenty of firewood and right on lake shore, great views as well, toilet smelly, Kinloch Lodge just across the road, handy to Elfin Bay, Routburn and Lake Sylvan.

It rains a lot here, so be prepared, trees shelter NWesters, open to south.

Reviewed over 13 years ago

Clean, modern, tidy, well kept, nice owners.

Needs a kids playground and clearlite roofing near kitchen cleaned then Id give it a 10. Very good, recommend.

Reviewed over 13 years ago

OK for what you pay.

The building and facilities are a little tired, reasonable sized kitchen, good showers but water pools on floor, free washing machine, toilet block a bit basic, power points limited to one small area. Close to town, lotsa of room for the kids to play but no playground. RTeasonably clean & tidy.

Reviewed over 13 years ago

We stayed again, Dec 2010, what a change, new signage, clean facilities, happy staff, more gravel scattered here and there, Im re-rating this from a 2 to a 7, keep up the good work..

Jan 2009 - What a tip, go anywhere else.

There's acres of safe playing for the kids, the Lake at its doorstep with safe swimming bays to the side and the rowing course nextdoor. A 30min walk into Twizel passes the morning quite nicely. Showers are hot but fickle, everything works in the kitchen and washing machine have a reasonable charge.

But the buildings (except for the new Motels) haven't seen much improvment since they were built in the early 1980s, they are generally grubby, spiderwebed and roughly cleaned out, windows with months of accumulated flyspots, street lighting only half working, potholes get bigger every year, broken supports for watertaps, sun faded signposts etc. The camp shop doesnt cater for anything more than the peak holiday demands, ie no papers, milk from mid/late January.

Fat lazy owners who couldnt give a toss.

Only improvement I could detect for 2008 was free handwash dispenser in the tired shower blocks.

Reviewed over 13 years ago

Very nice place to stop, friendly owners, clean as facilities, spacious grounds, great hot pools, recommend.

Reviewed over 13 years ago and experienced in October 2010