Ross Caravan Park — Attraction in Tasmania

Ross is a lovely old town in Tasmania. A nice place to visit, with the Tasmanian Wool Museum, the ruins of the old 'Female Factory' (Women convict incarceration), and lovely wide, clean laid out streets.||||However. The council owned, but privately leased Ross Caravan Park, is to be avoided. ||||Unless you enjoy, or can easily put up with a small-minded, petty, Anal Rule Enforcing, Park Manager. She huffs and puffs and makes you move, whether or not you are already set up, change angle, points out to you where you are breaking the caravan park Rules, which, as everybody knows, have been drafted and need an Enforcer.||||The park, when our confrontation took place at 7am, necessitating a pack up and couple up, to move the caravan forward by 3 meters, as we were set up in site 14, and not site 13. The park has only got four caravans in it, and no-one within cooee of us. Sites are not marked out, including a supposed 'road' included in the grass, marked only by three with dots. When asked at what time all the other bookings were arriving, necessitating our being told to move, she reverted to her Mantra of 'There are Rules, and we have to abide by the Rules.' One look at the Park handout, shows only 'You must...' and not 'Please would you...'||||At my stage of life (74) I do not need to have my day upset by a peanut-brained individual, whose self worth is obviously scaffolded on her petty mindedness.||||The park is advertised online, as Big Rig Friendly. NOT. On another site*, in this almost empty park, a bus RV and small trailer overlapped the length of their site by 1.5m. They were made to pay for two sites. In an empty park.||||Campbell Town is close - they have a wonderful free parking RV site. Kempton is close, and even better I am told.||||We will be heading there, 2 days short of our booking at Ross, whether or not she refunds our fees.||My advice, boycott this park, and visit Ross from other venues.||||David...

There were so many positives which were then let down by some fairly inconsistent customer service. I stayed in the ‘Tannery Rooms’ at the caravan park. They were cheap and perfect for a one or two night stay. They look recently renovated with a great bathroom and small kitchen. Compact room but had everything you needed. The day of checkin there was even a text advising that local pub would be closed but a food van would be in town. They even provided the menu which I thought was a great touch. |On checkin I was asked for a $10 key deposit. The lady behind the counter said they had a lot of trouble with keys and the $10 was to make sure it was returned. Whilst I understand, it didn’t make sense when I saw what appeared to be key boxes at each room so they could have been left there. I asked what time reception was open in the morning and she said, just call, I will be here.|I went to checkout at 8.45am. There was no-one at reception so I called the number. I was then told she wasn’t on site and would be back in 5 mins. I was also asked if I had paid a key deposit (not sure why some people did and others did not). I waited with 2 other people who were also waiting to check out (and I’d seen two other couples in the Tannery Rooms packing up). There were obviously quite a few people checking out that day and she went off site before 9am. I waited almost 10 mins and when she turned up she had a takeaway coffee in her hand, advising she went to ‘feed the chickens’ and mentioned how as soon as she leaves people turn up. Considering it was before 10am and everyone hadn’t gone yet, I’m not surprised people were waiting to check out. I’m not sure if it was deliberate to get people to leave without their...

This was our first, but definitely not our last stay here! The march in procedure was very quick and easy, Jamie and Leone are terrific down to earth people. Great to talk to, we'll be bringing some of our own farm tucker down next time to cook on their BBQ, making use of the herb garden right next to it. It's very close to the town centre, just over the bridge coming from the south, turn left at the WW1 monument, then left at the old red phone boxes or turn right if coming from Campbell Town, follow the Esplanade road down from there and you drive straight in. The cabins are pretty spacious, comfortable, well set out and very affordable. I've put up some pics to use as a guide, unfortunately I don't know how to arrange them in order for users to find the place easily. I only gave them four stars as five would leave no room for improvement. Though I can't think of anything to improve...