Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Sleeping & Eating
Whakapapa Village has limited accommodation, and during ski season prices hit their
peak. A greater range of options can be found in National Park Village and Ohakune,
with the latter offering the most in the way of eating and shopping.
Whakapapa Holiday Park
HOLIDAY PARK $
( 07-892 3897;
www.whakapapa.net.nz
;
campsites from $19, dm $25, units $69-149; )
This
popular DOC-associated park beside Whakapapanui Stream has a wide range of accom-
modation options, including campervan sites perched on the edge of beautiful beech
forest, a 32-bed backpackers lodge (linen required), cabins (linen required) and a self-
contained unit. The camp store stocks basic groceries.
Mangahuia DOC
Campsite
CAMPING GROUND $
OFFLINE MAP
(
www.doc.govt.nz
;
sites per adult/child $6/3)
Situated between National Park Village and
the SH48 turn-off heading to Whakapapa, this basic roadside DOC campsite has bushy
nooks, cold water and pit toilets for self-contained campers only.
Skotel Alpine Resort
HOSTEL $
( 07-892 3719, 0800 756 835;
www.skotel.co.nz
; Ngauruhoe Pl; s/tw/tr without bathroom $40/
55/75, r with bathroom $110-185, cabins $185; )
If you think of it more as a hostel than a
hotel, you'll excuse the odd bit of stained carpet or cheap lino, and enjoy the timber-lined
alpine ambience and decidedly non-hostel-like facilities: free sauna, spa pool and gym,
and ski hire, restaurant and bar.
Tongariro Family
Holiday Park
HOLIDAY PARK $
OFFLINE MAP
( 07-386 8062;
www.thp.co.nz
; SH47; campsites per person unpowered/powered $18/20, cabins
$60-90, units from $130; )
Conveniently situated for Alpine Crossing trampers, halfway
along the highway between the start and finish points, this wee gem is in the middle of
nowhere and everywhere at the same time. It's a welcoming camp - simple, sunny and
surrounded by forest, with plenty of grass, trees and a playground. Communal facilities,
cabins and self-contained units are unflashy but well tended. It's 24km to both
Whakapapa Village and Turangi.
