Don't stay here

rockylizard · Guru

Don't stay here

milo · Guru

you cant expect it too flash in the outback!!

and if i could ever afford it have a van with own bathroom!!

-- Edited by milo on Friday 25th of January 2013 07:29:07 PM

castaways · Member

This would have to be the worst caravan park i have ever seen...take my word give it a big miss

Big Gorilla · Guru

Ok, but where is it !!!

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Looks like a 5 star resort there castaways biggrin confuse The rats must love that bin area.

petengail · Guru

Dont let the name of the place out........ everyone will want to crowd in there.... send me a pm please so we can book early for the next season....

marggie and David · Veteran Member

Looks like dodge city to me, we relief managed one north of Rocky it was a real rocky horror show also. Thats why we prefer Free Camping anyday

rockylizard · Guru

marggie and David wrote:
~~~~~ Thats why we prefer Free Camping anyday

Gday...

I camp away from van parks at least 85% of the time as well ....... and most of those 'camps' have "amenity blocks" (loosely called toilets) probably worse than those in the photos in the original post

They don't bother me either .... if no fee for usage, I don't mind what condition they are, I am just grateful they are there

Cheers - John

marggie and David · Veteran Member

Yeah John thats how we feel, we have our own shower and toilet and if all I have to use their toilets for is to empty mine then it don't bother me.

jimricho · Guru

It seems I'm not the only one on this forum with very poor mind reading skills.

I fail to see the point in submitting such an uninformative post.

Boothie · Senior Member

How about putting it in the recommendations and not recommending it and naming it! That makes sense to me. Also pm so I can take a load to the tip without paying the rate the tips ask for, generally cps charge less!

brickies · Guru

Grand pines tourist park sydney, Castaway asked for advice in earlier post about this park and has started a new post to comment on his stay , instead of posting on the previous post , I google this park when he ask about it from that I would not have gone there google is a good tool I don't understand why more people don't use it

rockylizard · Guru

Gday...

Thanks Brickies .... I had not opened the thread on the Grand Pines Park .... no interest for me as I would never go to Sydney - Wanderest at Richmond would be the closest I would even think about.

Having now read that thread it certainly does appear castaways did decide to stay there and were very disappointed. I guess they did not "read between the lines" of the responses to their question re Grand Pines.

Given their "expectations" the park would certainly have shocked.

cheers - John

Roving-Dutchy · Guru

Hi Brickies

I think, many people are too lazy to do their own research, just want it handed to them on a platter.

Cheers

David

Golddetectornomad · Senior Member

...apart from a very typical permanent van corner, a bin possibly before refuse pick up,a possibly storm damaged amenities block roof and what could be any one of dozens of shower cubicles I have used.. and pull chain dunnys that probably work a treat......what am I looking at?....surely the tariff charged should be incorporated in any complaint thread.......everything is relative....what about all the room to move you would have enjoyed staying in a park like that....what was Managements' response when you lodged your compaint?....that would be more interesting and to the point with this thread..might answer all above questions....IMO....I wake up happy to be alive, and it takes a whole lot more than that to get me down during the day...Hoo Roo.

Hylda&Jon · Guru

I think we should be very wary about naming and shaming any caravan parks on a forum as this can be used as an easy way to express a grudge against one that did the 'wrong thing' by the poster. We don't want Cindy our moderator, or this great forum in trouble for libel. (sorry castaways, I didn't mean you & I believe it's great that you didn't mention the name but, as you did say 'give it a miss' maybe a clue to where it is was could help).

A comment or clue to the general area where caravan park is would be ok & if people want more information, maybe they can then private message the poster.

Cheers

Jon

-- Edited by Hylda&Jon on Saturday 26th of January 2013 09:36:08 AM

jimricho · Guru

I fail to see why this thread was some sort of stupid guessing game when simply mentioning the park by the original poster would have been much more informative. I agree with GDN above that a little more detail may have helped.

I didn't link it to an earlier topic as CPs in Sydney are of no interest to me. I live only a couple of hours away and I usually go there by train just for the day.

The comments about using google etc may be sometimes valid but there is often no substitute for first hand information and this forum can be a very useful research tool itself.

I'm a regular user of Google, Google Maps, and Badgers (click on underlined links)

brickies · Guru

Just had a look at there website rates are only $45 to $50 a night for 2 people can't except much more for that price

neilnruth · Guru

I can't see why it is OK to recommend a good caravan park but not to name a bad one. I see where you are coming from Hylda & Jon but why do we always have to stick to giving the besdt side of things? I think it would be wiser just to say it wasn't a good choice without posting photos. Sorry you had such a bad experience castaways. CPs in Sydney are hard to find. We will always stay at Wanderest in Richmond and travel in.

Delta18 · Guru

brickies wrote:
Just had a look at there website rates are only $45 to $50 a night for 2 people can't except much more for that price

ONLY $45 - $50 a night????? I baulk at paying more than $32 a night, I would want hot & cold running women for $50 a night.

No wonder I much prefer freedom camping.

gordon_adl · Senior Member

That's funny
brickies wrote:
, I would want hot & cold running women for $50 a night.

the rocket · Guru

Delta18 wrote:
brickies wrote:
Just had a look at there website rates are only $45 to $50 a night for 2 people can't except much more for that price
ONLY $45 - $50 a night????? I baulk at paying more than $32 a night, I would want hot & cold running women for $50 a night.
No wonder I much prefer freedom camping.
good luck findin that

jetj · Guru

I refuse to pay $45 - $50 a night anywhere unless a motel room or on site accommodation included.

Nicholstones · Guru

We're talking in the middle of Australia's largest city here, you wouldn't really expect the rates to be the same as in a little country town would you? Good luck to those of you who are looking for a motel room in the middle of Sydney for that price! I think its amazing that the park is still open, it must be a gold mine waiting to happen for a developer.

Dougwe · Chief one feather

In defense of castaways, I think they probably thought we all were aware what park, as mentioned above they started a thread earlier about CV Parks in that area. Most reading their comment above didn't know including me but given time we would have found out. BG asked the question so given time castaways would have answered, instead they probably have been frightened off.

Happywanderer · The Master

If only people would stick to the one thread about one particular topic instead of starting a new one when they have an update. It happens often and just makes it all very confusing.

Sheba · Guru

Spot on Marj. Should only be necessary to start a new one when the original is too many Pages back.

Cheers,

Sheba.

Cupie · Guru

Just back from a week at Narabeen Lakeside Park in Sydney with two Grandchildren. I suppose that some might have appolexy at what we paid ... $90 per night .. had an en-suite though. I have no problem in paying for a quality, well maintained park in a good location.

whiteman · Senior Member

I don`t mind naming & shaming............stayed overnight at Springsure SG last trip with friends, we chose a powered site at $25pn and they non powered at $17.50pn for 2AD`s, no kids & no pets.

Once it had cooled down after dinner we headed for the showers for a scrum & tub and while there was plenty of hot water on tap I needed to fight off the ****roaches before setting foot in the shower recess........what a disgrace, quite sure the local councillors wouldn`t put up with those facilities and all for $25 bucks........needless to say I made sure the local council CEO was made aware of the problem........judging from the lack of response they couldn`t care less about tourists and I simply scrubbed the place from our return visit list.

-- Edited by whiteman on Monday 28th of January 2013 04:30:14 PM

jetj · Guru

Think we all differ in our budgets and what we think is value for money and that's fine.

The little extras like ****roaches I don't need either lol.