Does anyone obey the rules set down by caravan parks anymore? We are currently in a caravan park on the NSW south coast. It specifically states that cyclists must wear a helmet and only cycle during daylight hours. It also says to drive slowly on the roads, walking pace only. All day long children and adults have been zipping along on escooters through the park at at least 40 km/h with no helmets and have continued to 9:00pm tonight. The laundry golf carts zip along at over 40 km/h going the wrong way up one way roads. And everywhere there are kangaroos and little children strolling across the roads. I just hope there are no accidents. Then theres the pool rules. Parents encouraging their kids to run around the pool and bomb into it, parents taking ****tails and food into the pool area against the rules, no supervision of young kids in the pool, etc.
Does anyone obey the rules set down by caravan parks anymore? We are currently in a caravan park on the NSW south coast. It specifically states that cyclists must wear a helmet and only cycle during daylight hours. It also says to drive slowly on the roads, walking pace only. All day long children and adults have been zipping along on escooters through the park at at least 40 km/h with no helmets and have continued to 9:00pm tonight. The laundry golf carts zip along at over 40 km/h going the wrong way up one way roads. And everywhere there are kangaroos and little children strolling across the roads. I just hope there are no accidents. Then theres the pool rules. Parents encouraging their kids to run around the pool and bomb into it, parents taking ****tails and food into the pool area against the rules, no supervision of young kids in the pool, etc.
Good post Derek,and the answer to your first question is "No".However,it is simply sympomatic of a general decline in community standards.Cheers
If its as bad as you say, not saying it isn't, maybe a quiet word to the owner/management. If it is council run, ring the council or send an email, then its in writing!!(even try the local paper, they love a good story)
You could also post on their facebook page on how bad it is and remind them about responsibility IF there is an accident, again put it in writing, even if after you have left.
I know where you are coming from, some parks are particularly bad, people today!!
cheers
Ian
over here in SOUTH OZ there are good and bad parks .....i always rite in a book to keep track myself of the bad and good ones we have stayed at ......its also good later to read the reviews ive written .........the badies dont however get us bad again ........
Does anyone obey the rules set down by caravan parks anymore? We are currently in a caravan park on the NSW south coast. It specifically states that cyclists must wear a helmet and only cycle during daylight hours. It also says to drive slowly on the roads, walking pace only. All day long children and adults have been zipping along on escooters through the park at at least 40 km/h with no helmets and have continued to 9:00pm tonight. The laundry golf carts zip along at over 40 km/h going the wrong way up one way roads. And everywhere there are kangaroos and little children strolling across the roads. I just hope there are no accidents. Then theres the pool rules. Parents encouraging their kids to run around the pool and bomb into it, parents taking ****tails and food into the pool area against the rules, no supervision of young kids in the pool, etc.
Just a few of the reasons I dont like caravan parks here is a few more
average nightly fee 35 a night 245 a week 12740 a year would you pay to live in that little block with a little bit of power water that we use if you were renting thats without a dwelling.
Incompetent staff taking bookings or moving you or not telling you your site is booked in advance not always but it does happen
putting you in front of a dump point they should not be within 50 m
packed in like sardines
not being able to get in at ten when they push you out the door at ten and tell you it maintenance its BS
some places people just want to talk to and annoy you when your hitching up
poor ammenities
uneven sites with dirt usually at your door
limited parking for your car god forbid if you have two or another trailer
Many more but prefer to free camp and spend our money elsewhere
cheers
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John
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If its that bad I would definitely have a word with the park management.
But we have just spent a week in a park on a river in Southern NSW. Basically everybody was following the rules. Kids were riding with helmets and at the pool were all supervised and well behaved within the normal children parameters, people drove slowly, noise was kept to reasonable levels in reasonable hours, staff were around and very friendly. So its not everybody everywhere.
Too many park managers are afraid to enforce the rules to those who break them
in case they get upset and don't come back.
Those with balls will enforce them and conclude that it is appreciated by those
who follow the rule and more important to have them come back and get rid
of the yobs.
Larry
Yes, most folk do the right thing, but some times grrrrrrr !!! I have spoken to a few Park Managers who are nervous about ruling in some folks behaviour for fear of retaliation.
I've personally seen disgruntled park guests who were warned by the Managers for breaches of rules, do retaliative things like smash office windows upon leaving. Or recently someone with their dog that dug large holes in the lawned area, and the owner never bothering to pick up the dog poop.....the Park Manager filled the holes in and cleaned up the area.
The worst thing I have encountered recently was another angry guest who upon leaving took his full toilet cassette into the shower block and spread the contents all over every wall, floor and ceiling. It was disgusting, and no doubt caused a lot of grief to the Managers .
We must have just been lucky or maybe more tolerant (unlikely says SWMBO) but over our 21 years of staying at CPs around Oz, I can't recall many instances of the sorts of poor CPs or Guests behaving badly that are described in previous posts. Mind you we always carefully choose our CPs & the sites on offer including any premium sites, irrespective of cost. I have a file that contains park maps of lots of CPs marked up with our preferred sites. When we are in or passing through an area we usually visit all likely CPs, obtain park maps & eyeball preferred sites. This often allows us to book in to particular sites in advance. If we were full time on the road it may be different.
Sure, at one popular fishing/crabbing CP on Yorke Peninsular SA in the middle of the season the CP was overcrowded as are lots in peak season and in a School Holiday period. At one of our favourites on the Gold Coast the kids were a bit of a pain racing around the place late at night making a racket, but a quiet & kindly word with a couple of them solved the issue. We were aware of these possible issues before booking in. We usually avoid school holidays & have a look at the occupancy / site layout before booking in where we feel that there may be an issue.
It's not just CPs that may be exposed to these issues. We often look at some 'Free Camping' sites as we drive by/ stop for a drinks break & there are lots that are far from attractive to us, often because of overcrowding, poor sites, rubbish lying about & probably bloody noisy. Of course if we were free campers we would develop a strategy to counter undesirable aspects, as I'm sure most of you guys do.
-- Edited by Cupie on Saturday 11th of December 2021 11:10:58 PM
I haven't had much trouble in camping grounds. However, I did have some problems with dogs in a large freestay. A couple in a ute had two dogs that barked on and off most of the time. We camped as far away from them as we could but decided to only stay one night. It's unfortunate that owners don't train their dogs properly.
