One of my favourite camps so far! Nice and central to New Plymouth so perfect for visiting the town especially the Festival of Lights! Staff were welcoming and helpful, and facilities were clean but fairly basic - as you'd expect from a budget camp. Worth noting campers can book the 'Tent site' listed on the website.

Not a budget camper spot at all. $35 per person per night for an unpowered, un allocated site with no amenities... We misread the website (we presumed $35 per camper which would be great for the budget site offered) We ended up booking a different campsite and got a beachfront pitch with power, dump station, clean toilets, water etc for less money. Please do your research! Also, extremely tight to get a van sized camper down the drive (it is also not the view of Taranaki as advertised)

Nice relaxing place to stay, no longer a BBH though. Everything was clean and worked well.

Great place to stay, about a 25 minute walk to the city centre. Clean facilities. And Lynn, the manager, is the nicest person you'll meet, and she works so hard!

Nice accommodation and friendly manager. Clean kitchen and dorms. You have to pay extra for sheets and wifi.

A good accommodation. The lady at the reception was super friendly. We got a room in a small cabin next to the main building. The room was rusty and cosy. The clean kitchen has everything you need.

Awesome hostel! Very friendly staff. Big dorm rooms (chalets) and dining area. Kitchen was very organized too. We got lucky because there were only 5 people in that hostel. HOWEVER there is a cat that wanders the grounds - the kitchen and dining area, and probably the laundry and dorm rooms. I'm allergic to cats so it reallllllllly sucked for me. So if you're allergic to cats avoid this hostel.

Very beautiful accomodation, since you're in the city but at the same time somehow away from it. The staff was friendly to us and everything is as you expect it from a hostel.

It was just fine for our stay, nothing impressive. On the night there was a guy who arrived to check in late around 10pm (he looks like been tracking the whole day & pretty tried) with booking in advanced. The manager went back home at around 8pm but yet she leave a notice saying that she'll be back in 20min, in fact she never came back since. On the notice she leave her contact number but it was not accessible. And there was no any instruction leave by manager to let him check in by himself. So the poor guy can't do anything other than waiting at the reception. At the end that guy gave up & called a taxi to send him to another backpacker. What a service!

My friends and i stayed at the Eco lodge a few nights ago and we had the most unreal stay ever. The check-in was all good and we enjoyed the evening and night, but at 9am the manager Christina knocked on our door (as we were still sleeping) and wanted us to follow her into the kitchen. She was extremely angry and while we were still half-asleep, she accused us of stealing teabags from her shelf (that didn't have a sign), spreading flour all over it and not washing our dishes. We tried to explain to her that we didn't do any of the above but she just said "shut up" to me and asked us to leave immediately?! We had a long discussion and when the lady who checked us in said that there were other guests that might have left the mess, Christina started to realize that it maybe wasn't us and let us go. We went back to our room, still quite shocked about how a manager of a place can act like this with guest. Absolutely unbelievable, we definitely do not recommend to support a place like this and will also write an email to Taranaki Experience. We didn't see Christina after our conversation anymore so we didn't get an apology. Other things that are good to know: - you have to pay extra for wifi - towels are $3 - washing and dryer aren't working properly