I was rudely awoken at 3am by someone banging and shaking the van before proceeding to scream f*ck off then jumping back in their car and blasting the horn. As a solo female traveller I wouldn’t recommend it left me quite shaken up!

Our car got damaged with traffic cones on a friday night, by a boy group at 2am - called the police 3 times. They skreamed things Like „wake up motherf****s“.

I was staying there 27.11. , I arrived first and then 2 more vans came. There was one old Maori guy hanging out around on his bike, was talking to me for a while. If there is no other campers I would leave. Both of Toilets were surpassingly closed during the night from 6pm.

It’s a free space, and it helped a lot, as there are not many places on the road southwards. (It was already late) I felt a bit bad, as the marked field was too small for the length of my campervan. But no one bothered. It’s a calm place with a very good bakery not even 5min of it. Yes there are passing cars but not lot of traffic. I didn’t use the public toilets (my van is self contained). There’s a playground and a japanese garden nearby as well.

We felt insecure. When we were driving to the place we saw three people in a big fight in the middle of the road. one girl took a big stick of her car. It was in the road near to the carpark. It was late and we were tired so we stayed because there isn't many option nearby. It is a carpark near to the main road and the train rail. Noisy. There isn't to much space but also not to many people. The toilet across the street was really dirty we didn't use it. We survived! Din't have any problem

Great place by the main road, but the road was very quiet. One of two toilets accross the street in the little park was open during the night. So previous comment is not correct.

Top!! There were 4 of us for 6 places in total. Contrary to the presidents' comments, the freedom camping area was very easily indicated, with markings on the ground. The city must have done this recently. I didn't need to use the toilets so I can't say for the opening hours, but there are 3 nearby. I slept extremely well, not bothered at all by the noise. All alone in my campervan, I felt safe. I recommend it!

Nothing special but quiet, and better than the other options on the map. A bit of noise. Toilet in the nearby park were closed at night. It's good to go to the caves.

Not a great place, a guy in his car completely wasted, a girl running in the parking lot to escape the police Noise from 6am Toilets not clean at all and closed at night

We parked based on the last 2 comments, as we couldn't find any definitive maps or markings ourselves. This spot is nothing fancy, but it does the job. We used the Main Street bathrooms 5 minutes walk away, they were fine. A good spot to reach Waitomo early.