Andrea Aschenbrenner
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North Island ▷ Waikato ▷ Huntly ▷
Lake Hakanoa Huntly Motor Caravan Park
3.0/5
Nice little campground right beside the lake which is about 45 min to walk around.
Very good value with 20 NZD for powered site. Spotless facilities. It is a real pity the owner / caretaker is so grumpy und unhelpful. Should spend less time cleaning and start seeing campers as customers not as nuisances. Only place during a 5 week holiday where we have been made feel unwelcome.
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South Island ▷ West Coast ▷ Greymouth ▷
Rapahoe Beach Holiday Park
5.0/5
This was our favourite campground during a 5 week holiday.
If you are looking for a modern holiday park with lots of facilities go somewhere else. However, if you are into places with real character, you'll love this. The kitchen / lounge area is in an old school building and just lovely. Beautiful old high windows, wood panelling, etc. Showers in the lounge are a bit unusual, admittedly, but everybody's in the same boat, so you get over the initial irritation quickly. The toilets beside the main building are also still from school days (sinks low), but clean. And of course, the sites right beside the beach are not to be topped. You can watch the sun going down behind the sea lying on your bed. Cannot understand the comment on the owners, were very friendly to us. Stayed two nights, before and after making our own knifes in Barrytown (also highly to be recommended).
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South Island ▷ Canterbury ▷ Christchurch ▷
Happy Campers
0.5/5
Stay away from this crowd!
The van was run down and lacked basic equipment. We were not able use the sink in 5 weeks because it didnt drain (pipe below had been fixed badly), thus we were also not able to empty the waste water. One of the top windows didnt open - so could not create a draft if you didnt want to sleep with the bottom windows open. CD player didnt work, radio crap. But worst of all, they took 2000 NZD off us because we had a big scratch on the side (which we caused, so fair), said they would refund the balance within two weeks and would give us one day's rental back for all the things that did not work. Never happend. did not react to any of my mails to different addresses. Just read on a differnt review site that the exact same thing happend to others. Seems to be the standard procedure for the company. Promise refund within 2 weeks and then play dead.