Punakaiki Beach Camp

We stayed at the Treescapes Holiday Home, reserved through Punakaiki Beach Camps, the night before our trip on the Paparoa Great Walk. It is a lovely home with an excellent view. Very clean and comfortable with nice access to the road into Punakaiki. Highly recommend. At the end of our hut trip on the Paparoa we stayed at the Cliffscapes Holiday Home. It is a perfect place to stay after the hike - very clean, great showers, laundry in the house and excellent kitchen. It is a quick walk to the lovely beach and across the street from the pub, with a great beer garden. The garden outside the home is beautiful. This would be a great spot for a family gathering - lots of space to share a good experience. In the area would also highly recommend Paparoa Guided Walks, the guides are amazing and make for a fantastic experience.

Good: great location with Paparoa track, rugged beach, walks, views, cafe's. Bad: wifi only works in the kitchen area. Bad: expensive. In all our camping ground we stayed at in the sth island it was the most expensive. Bad: it rained the entire week we were there - obviously not the camping grounds fault but drainage was an issue. Bad: sites are far away from the one toilet block. Bad: showers are terrible. Plumbing issues meant either only hot came out and was scorching or freezing cold. The push button timer for water was annoying, only lasting for about 20 seconds. Bad: I asked if at front desk if there was bike hire around and they said no but right next door I found bike hire. It's a shame they don't support other community business. Bad: the idyllic photos on website showing the river are a bit misleading. It's a bit of a walk to get there. And you have to get the right time for tides. No wifi was the biggest problem for us as we depended on it for work.

Beautiful site right on the beach, and no obtrusive lights to spoil the amazing night skies. Good number of clean basic facilities - no frills but everything you need is here. Friendly wekas and glow worms also abound, a magical place to stop right between the ocean and pororari river which you must walk up

For camper or tent probably very nice but the cabin was disappointing. A very small container-like cabin and we had to share the ( not so clean) facilities with the people from the campground. Which meant a very long hike through pitchblack darkness through the woods. As a mature lady I need the loo several rimes in the night but often couldn’t find my way. Way too far! Also, we didn’t have wifi in our cabin as apposed to the people on the campground. The kitchen and eating area was not too well appointed, lots of a Old stuff there and quite dirty. As for the shower area, not so nice. It would be nice if there was a nicer communal area inside as well for the rainy days that often occur on the Westcoast. The scenery was beautiful and the proximity to the beach and pancake rocks was good.

We booked the seascapes holiday home through punakaiki beach camp for a winter stay. i imagine this would be fantastic in summer but it was cold in winter. no heating except for some small fan heaters. We were two couples so one couple were in a separate cottage with no toilet, so in the night they had to walk outside to go into main house, it is in a great location, it wasnt cleaned very well. but would be a great place to stay in summer. the views were stunning.

Perfect site next to beach. Witnessed the most amazing sunset. Stunning place and everyone there was respectful and quiet at night. Beach was lovely and peaceful - we enjoyed looking at all the different pebbles on the beach. Just a really nice place to get away. Close to the blow holes and entrance to walks and caves.