YHA Waitomo Juno Hall — Hotel in North Island

The best campsite we've stayed in so far! This place offers camping for tents, powered and unpowered vehicles, private rooms and dorm rooms. The price is reasonable for a campsite and cheap for the facilities you get. $16 per person per night for an unpowered campsite. There is a saltwater swimming pool (with noodles, tyre tubes and reclining chairs), tennis court (rackets and balls available from reception), squash wall, basketball hoop, huge lounge, verandah and kitchen, showers, laundry and toilets. There are farm animals (calves, pigs, piglets and deer) which are fed twice a day (morning and 5:30pm) and you can pet them. The owner/manager is very friendly and always has his small dog Max around. The laundry is $2 for a cold wash and you can hang your clothes outside to dry. The showers have very good pressure, very hot, clean and modern. Kitchen is equipped with everything you need - three ovens, microwaves, toasters, toastie machine, blender, slow cooker, rice cooker and much more. The lounge is big yet cosy in a kinda log cabin style with a freestanding fire. Also TV with DVDs, books and bean bags. Everything is perfectly clean (rubbish emptied every day, towels changed etc). Free wifi included (not always great but does the trick). There are plenty of places to park/pitch your tent with/without shade. I wish we could...

The hostel in itself is ok. Shower and bathrooms are clean. Kitchen is good. Bed are acceptable but tend to cave in. ||What made this experience really terrible for us (I’m travelling with my cousin) was the manager. He barged in our room without a knock or a word at 11pm screaming incomprehensible words and throwing people things around the room violently. This was a very scary moment because he never said who he was; I really taught my life was in danger. We finally understood that he was asking if there was any free beds in the room. Then he stormed off. He came back, screaming and swearing again, with two girls that looked absolutely terrified of him (apparently he had just done the same thing in front of them in another room next door). He had also screamed at the girls because they checked in too late. We asked him who he was the second time he came in the room and he just screamed “I’M THE MANAGER!” and then stormed off again. The whole thing was so disrespectful and unprofessional. It felt super unsafe to stay there after. I would highly recommend to stay elsewhere just because of him. I feel like he needs...

The hostel in itself is ok. Shower and bathrooms are clean. Kitchen is good. Bed are acceptable but tend to cave in.

What made this experience really terrible for us (I’m travelling with my cousin) was the manager. He barged in our room without a knock or a word at 11pm screaming incomprehensible words and throwing people things around the room violently. This was a very scary moment because he never said who he was; I really taught my life was in danger. We finally understood that he was asking if there was any free beds in the room. Then he stormed off. He came back, screaming and swearing again, with two girls that looked absolutely terrified of him (apparently he had just done the same thing in front of them in another room next door). He had also screamed at the girls because they checked in too late. We asked him who he was the second time he came in the room and he just screamed “I’M THE MANAGER!” and then stormed off again. The whole thing was so disrespectful and unprofessional. It felt super unsafe to stay there after. I would highly recommend to stay elsewhere just because of him. I feel like he needs...