Trounson Kauri Park Campground — Hotel in North Island

Despite being classified as a serviced DOC site, the lack of adequate facilities was evident. Most importantly, according to the DOC website a serviced campsite should be equipped with rubbish bins. At this campsite you need to take your rubbish with you - Cost reduction in its purest form. The kitchen area was ill-equipped with only one chair, making it challenging for multiple campers to comfortably utilize the space. Moreover, the absence of lighting in the men's toilet posed safety concerns during nighttime visits.

I can live with a basic campground, but I think it's just cheeky how the DOC classifies a basic campground, where many things are missing, as a campground of their highest category - with the corresponding price, of course. So if you have a campsite pass, don't expect too much. On the other hand, if you want to pay $20 per person,...

Might be the best DOC campground I've been too. Lovely location near the forest, the Kauri walk there is really great. For a DOC campground, kitchen, shower and flush toilets are great. However, it is too expensive in the main season. 20NZ$ per adult and night is too much, if you compare to other campgrounds and keep the state of showers, toilets etc in mind. It's a bit sad, you can't use your DOC pass in main season. Pass + 5$ extra would be a much better price, or 20$ per night for a small tent with 2 or 3 persons. The night after staying here, we were on a campground in Muriwai, with much better facilities for just 2$ more per adult and night. I would recommend coming here only when you can use...

I love everything about Trounson except that it's unsupervised. Smoking in the kitchen, parties at night, VERY loud midnight celebrations by folks from the other side of the planet(12 hour time difference). Non-campers coming in at night to drink and remove bathroom supplies. A great kitchen, wonderous walk, plenty of room although it gets very...