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Your Catlins Base Camp

"Stay Awhile "

Pet friendly

Bring their comfy bed and he or she will be welcome in our accommodation - and in our camping areas.

Delicious Food

Our focus is to bring you fresh, clean and flavoursome meals that use local, home- made and home- grown ingredients..

Landscaped Grounds

Chalets, budget motels, backpackers cabins and powered and non powered camping sites with kitchen, TV lounge, BBQ, dump station and WIFI

Things to do

A great place from which to explore the Cathedral Caves, McLean Falls, Nugget Point, Curio Bay and the entire Catlins Coast on the Southern Scenic Route.

Your Catlins NZ experience

Catlins Park Facilities

 

Executive Head Chef Tom Peake and his team, work together to present you as our guest, a culinary experience, using fresh home- made and home- grown ingredients. Read what Richie McGraw has to say about us! 

Whistling Frog, the friendliest lilly-pad in the Catlins welcomes you...
It is your scenic gateway to the magnificent Cathedral Caves, in the heart of the Catlins Coastal Rainforest Park. These towering Sea Caves are just 400 meters from our front gate. Base yourselves at this mid-point, full-service holiday dining, lodging & camping destination next to the McLean Falls, Lake Wilkie & Tautuku Estuary Boardwalk.
With historical cabins, from the dam building years, motels, from Fiordland & our new luxury self- contained one bedroom and two bedroom chalets, there is a bed for everyone.

accommodation

Chalets

  • Self Contained
  • One bedroomed / own kitchen
  • Television
  • Garden view
  • Private bathroom with shower
  • Packages Available

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Motel Ensuites

  • Private historical motel room
  • Free wifi, mini fridge, tea and coffee making
  • Access to fully equipped kitchen.
  • Garden view
  • Private ensuite Boardwalk patio

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Powered Sites

    • All- weather powered van sites on crushed Bluff Oyster shell
    • Communal TV Lounge with brochures, DVD player and Freeview box
    • Communal kitchen available.
    • Showers and toilets
    • Laundry Facilities

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Cabins

  • Budget Options for singles, couples or friends
  • Tea & coffee making 
  • Communal kitchen and bathroom facilities
  • Own covered patio
  • Garden views

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"One Day, One Place "

Stay awhile

You have come all this way, to the bottom of the world. Next stop, Antarctica.

The Catlins, steeped in history and swathed in the mists of time. Old whaling stations, home to a petrified forest, cascading waterfalls and wildlife that is thriving in an uncorrupted eco environment. 

So many people think of passing through the Catlins en route to other places. So many people are wrong.... The Catlins is a holiday in itself! 

“TWENTY years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain

Take your time and sit awhile. Explore the Catlins one day, one place, one day at a time. 

 

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