Great place for a day, a week, a month. Cheap weekly rates, mostly grassy, sheltered sites, good water and amenities. 5 Minute walk to major supermarkets, and 50 variety shops.
Bonnie and James are managers... very helpful and friendly. Pet friendly, but dawgs MUST be on leads.
Over the last 3 years I have been filling the service station across the road the the Sale Racecourse, don't know if its the same as the showgrounds but in that time I have watched the daily rate rise from $17 to $25 as it stands now. My immediate question is why????? What would cause an approximate 40% per year rise in their operating costs, and its not even their primary business. I'd be interested in knowing where the profits go?
I personally wouldnt stay there, not even for $17......I don't know how anyone sleeps there, it is situated on the corner of a busy T intersection which has a high volume of trucks not to mention gas tankers rocking up at all hours running their pumps.
Cheers George & fatdog
-- Edited by george57 on Sunday 12th of October 2014 09:52:57 AM
I have watched the daily rate rise from $17 to $25 as it stands now. My immediate question is why????? What would cause an approximate 40% per year rise in their operating costs, and its not even their primary business. I'd be interested in knowing where the profits go?
The show ground trusts are after every dollar they can get to improve their grounds. The extra funds would not be going into the committee members pockets.
If they are keeping the grounds neater and tidier then it would be worth the price, I would not stop if the grounds were like I saw them some years ago.
The other thing effecting the camping costs is the caravan park lobby groups. I don't know what it is like in Victoria but in Queensland they are being forced to charge "economic rates." The park lobby in Barcaldine bitched lo much that the state government forced the show ground trust to charge the same rates as the two caravan parks were charging (the show ground trusts generally do not own the land, they lease it from the Crown.)
-- Edited by PeterD on Saturday 9th of January 2016 03:24:57 PM
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