Hi all I started this thread for all to add, when I was in the tourism industry, I enforced to the staff that word of mouth is the best and worst advertising you can get.
with this in mind I would like all vanner’s and motor homers to add their bit of recommendation to this thread, all we are asking is for you to give the location of the place you stayed at and a recommendation rating,
here are the rating numbers and what they mean.

We’ll give it a recommendation score from 0 to 5.

0 = don’t even think about it
1 = really basic one nighter only, amenities very basic ( needs a lot of improvement)
2 = clean tidy, over charged for what you get,
3 = clean tidy, and reasonable fees
4 = good facilities, good customer relations, fair price
5 = excellent facilities, excellent customer service. value for money.

I'll go first, we have stayed at the Island View Caravan Park on Kinka Beach on the Capricorn Coast. I'ts a Top Tourit park and very good.
The ammenities are a bit old but very clean everything about this park is great. I rate it a 4 stars, shady sites, clean, staff are super friendly and a great position.

Now not trying to put a dampner on your idea, but will you rate the CPs from a couple's point of veiw, or as there are a

number of families on the forum will they also be taken into consideration as far as your rateing's are concerned.

For example:

6 = Couple

7 = Family

CHEERS......

No. its just how you find it. either your a couple or a family. doesn’t matter. just how you rate the place, not necessary a van park. it could be a free site you went to from camps Australia, or perhaps some were you stayed over night on the side of the road.

we all would appreciate if you told us how much you paid to stay as well.

Too restrictive as we prefer parks with clean loos, nice sites and are happy with no other facilities which we dont use anyway.



Dont agree with including free camps being rated against parks either.


In no 4 its Fair price.

Here are the van parks we stayed in in the past 13 months rated 1-10 for value, site type, cleanliness of amenities, helpfulness of staff and appearance and tidiness of park.

We didnt care about playgrounds or pools and preferred to be as far away from them as possible

Broadwater Southport 9
Broken Head near Byron 4
Coffs Harbour Park Beach 9
Trial Bay Big 4 6
Port Maquarie Breakwall 7
One mile Port Stephens 6
Lane Cove Sydney 7
Nowra Shoalhaven van village 7
Pleasure Lea Batemans Bay 6
Canberra Motor village 6
Albury Motor village 8
Echuca Caravan park 7
Big 4 Coburg 8
Appollo Bay holiday park 7
Portland Claremont park 5
Kingston SE 5
Walkerville Big 4 7
Shoreline TT Pt Augusta 6
BIg 4 Coober Pedy 6
Erldunda Roadhouse 5
Ularu 7
Kings Canyon 6
Macdonnell Range Alice 9
Wycliffe Well 5
Tennant Creek Outback 6
Territory Manor Mataranka -5
Shady Lane Katherine 9
Batchelor resort 6
Free Spirit Darwin 8
Lakeview Jabiru 9
Timber creek 3
Ivanhoe Kununurra 8
Halls Creek 4
Fitzroy River lodge 7
Kimberley Entrance Derby 7
Cable Beach Broome 6
Eighty Mile Beach 6
South Hedland 2
Point Samson 7
Auski Roadhouse 5
Newman Dearloves 7
Tom Price 7
Nanuturra Roadhouse 5
Exmouth Ningaloo Resort 8
Coral Bay 2nd park 7
Marloo Carnarvon 7
Shark Bay van pk 7
Tudor Manor Kalbarri 7
Geraldton Sunset Beach 7
Dongara/ Deniston 7
Jurien Bay 6
Vineyard Perth van site 8
2 nights in cabin 2
Bunbury Glade 7
Bussleton Kookaburra 8
Augusta Turners 5
Pemberton 6
Walpole Coalseam 6
Denmark Big 4 Rivermouth 8
Albany Middleton Beach 8
Woodman point freo villas 9
Hyden 6
Kalgoorlie Discovery park 8
Esperance Seafront Park 7
Norseman 5
Madura roadhouse 5
Eucla roadhouse 5
Ceduna Big 4 7
Streaky bay 7
Port Lincoln Tourist park 7
Whyalla Discovery 7
Pt Augusta Big 4 8
Mt Compass 8
Dunranald 5
Temora airfield 7
Bathurst big 4 8
Dubbo City park 8
Moree Gwydir 7
Warwick Oasis 6

Home after 13 months and 50,000km and $50,000.

No doubt some will differ but thats as we found them

PS its a FAIR price not fare which you pay on the bus.


Cheers

zzzzz

Agree with SD and Graham
Fairly pointless exercise, I reckon. Graham has gone to a lot of trouble but as others have said..His preferences would differ from , say, mine.
There is already another excellent site which contains reports on C.P.'s good or bad...Badgers.
I reckon if anyone strikes a really crummy one they should post on there or mention it on this forum....perhaps the administrators could set up another topic.."Caravan/camping park reports" Cant see any problem legal-wise for folk to post a bad (or good) report if it's deserving.
Jock

zzzzz

Hey Hillbilly, I for one will be printing your list and taking it with us when we head out to the great yonder in 12 weeks.

Like you we don't want pools or playgrounds, just clean, tidy and friendly places to stay a day or 2.

We're heading from Karratha up to Darwin and over to Queensland - no plans except for Darwin in June for the V8 supercars and that's it. So we'll pretty much follow your list backwards!!

thanks Sue and Stu