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cused, with drinkers gently encouraged to migrate into town after 10pm. Purpose-built
bunkrooms are spacious and adorned with beachy murals. Free bikes and surfboards.
Beachside Holiday Park
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HOLIDAY PARK
$
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( 07-575 4471;
www.mountbeachside.co.nz
;
1 Adams Ave; campsites from $35, on-site vans $60-90, cabins
$80-130; )
With three different camping areas nooked into the foot of Mt Maunganui it-
self, this community-run park has spectacular camping with all the requisite facilities, plus
it's handy to the Mount Hot Pools (discounts for campers) and a strip of good eateries. Re-
ception is the local info centre.
Mount Backpackers
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HOSTEL
$
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( 07-575 0860;
www.mountbackpackers.co.nz
;
87 Maunganui Rd; dm/tw/tr from $25/80/90; )
A tidy
hostel on the main drag, bolstered by location - close to the beach and a mere stagger
from the Mount's best restaurants and bars - plus extras like cheap surfboard and bike hire
and discounted surf lessons.
Cosy Corner Holiday Park
( 07-575 5899, 0800 684 654;
www.cosycorner.co.nz
;
40 Ocean Beach Rd; campsites from $40, cabins & flats
$70-120; )
This compact, spartan camping ground has a sociable feel, with barbe-
cues, trampolines and a games room. Handy to the beach, too (access via a little path just
across the road). New hot tub!
HOLIDAY PARK
$
Mission Belle Motel
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MOTEL
$$
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( 0800 202 434, 07-575 2578;
www.missionbellemotel.co.nz
;
cnr Victoria Rd & Pacific Ave; d/f from $130/190;
)
With a distinctly Tex-Mex exterior (like something out of an old Clint Eastwood
movie), this family-run motel goes all modern inside, with especially good two-storey
family rooms with large bathtubs, plus sheltered barbecue and courtyard areas.
MOTEL
$$
Westhaven Motel
( 07-575 4753;
www.westhavenmotel.co.nz
;
27a The Mall; units $100-210; )
The 1969 architecture
here is funky, but the new owners are modernising things room-by-room (get in now if
