Thread: People complain about NT van park prices

Originally Posted by weeds

Hey Mr Whippy

Had an interesting chat to my mum and dad who are on the road.....they are about to stay in a caravan park charges for electricity I.e. There is a base rate for the site and on checkout the read the meter for your site.......I can only assume so e the massive vans and motor homes chew some electricity? My parents aren't to worried as they rarely turn on their air-con and use bugger all in lighting

Will this become more and more common..........

its seawinds caravan park at Mackay.....read some reviews and travellers it works out cheaper if you are sensible with your air-cons and other big electricity users

Hi

I was just checking out the Camps7 app, and the reviews and pricing are none too stellar !

However the reviews pointed me to wikicamps which seems to get much better reviews and is $2.99

Steve

We have Camps 7 , its invaluable - For telling us where NOT to camp. ( Did I mention I have Agorophobia )

If we find a great spot, we look it up in Camp 7, if its not listed BONUS, we set up camp. To be truthful we have stayed in some of their sites, the ones without toilets are much preferred, beggars belief how anyone could use one of those horrible stinky things anyway.

As for Van park prices, the most we have paid is $35 a night at Karumba, even found Broome to be quite reasonable, but we do try to stay away from tourist spots in School Hols


Concur with Brian, a USA road trip can be quite economical, Many motels are cheaper than our caravan parks, (That is if you dare to venture inside a Motel 6 ) but not sure I would want to stay in a Trailer Park over there. Then there is always free overnight RV / motorhome sites in any Walmart Carpark

Originally Posted by goingbush

Concur with Brian, a USA road trip can be quite economical, Many motels are cheaper than our caravan parks, (That is if you dare to venture inside a Motel 6 ) but not sure I would want to stay in a Trailer Park over there. Then there is always free overnight RV / motorhome sites in any Walmart Carpark

My USA trips, which are now nearly every year to catch up with historic racing goings on, are all pre-booked into 4 or 5 star hotels, not motels. I feel a couple of the 4star houses I have used need re-assessing as they are on the borderline of being 3 star. Hilton chain are very good, and I now have a silver customer card. If you are going to a town/city with a Little America hotel don't look elsewhere. They are magnificent and not expensive. US state liquor laws can be a bind. All outlets in Indiana except restaurants are closed on Sundays and all customers must show ID in a liquor store. Utah has a Mormon majority in the government and the liquor laws are thus somewhat strange. In a hotel you have to order a meal to buy a drink at the bar. Mormons don't even drink tea or coffee. In most states take away beer is sold in corner stores and gas stations, supermarkets, and pharmacies. In Montana the liquor stores can't sell beer, only wine and spirits. The bars can't sell take away. In a spot on the map village in Iowa the one chair barber shop sold beer. The redneck bar across the street couldn't sell take away. Go figure.

Originally Posted by SteveFarmer

However the reviews pointed me to wikicamps which seems to get much better reviews and is $2.99

Steve

Wikicamps is excellent. I use it all the time.

It is like a sport adding out of the way places when on work trips etc.

Between that and Geocaching I'm not sure how I get any work done

Try having young kids.... I have a 6, 8 and 1year old. It's getting to the point where we simply cant' afford to go on holiday ... And will take the kids out of school to go away out off peak times. Were talking ~~$100 a night for a dead square of dirt/grass on a powered tent site, and filthy toilets/amenities that need to be cleaned several times a day (not once every two days like Queenscliff was last time we went there).

Generally $70+ a night for the site ... upto $5 -> $15 per child.

Were not talking motels/cabin here ... were talking tiny dead patch of grass.

Originally Posted by goingbush

We have Camps 7 , its invaluable - For telling us where NOT to camp. ( Did I mention I have Agorophobia )

If we find a great spot, we look it up in Camp 7, if its not listed BONUS, we set up camp. To be truthful we have stayed in some of their sites, the ones without toilets are much preferred, beggars belief how anyone could use one of those horrible stinky things anyway.

As for Van park prices, the most we have paid is $35 a night at Karumba, even found Broome to be quite reasonable, but we do try to stay away from tourist spots in School Hols


Concur with Brian, a USA road trip can be quite economical, Many motels are cheaper than our caravan parks, (That is if you dare to venture inside a Motel 6 ) but not sure I would want to stay in a Trailer Park over there. Then there is always free overnight RV / motorhome sites in any Walmart Carpark

yes, i have found it its in camps 5 than its going to be busy........they are all generally good for van however sometimes they are pain for camper trailers if you need pegs

i used used wikicamps on my last trip and found it useful