Curtain Springs
Submitted: Sunday, Jan 25, 2004 at 14:36
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GTee
Hi all. Someone kindly offered me some advice a little while back about staying at Curtain Springs instead of the Ayres
Rock caravan park. Do you need to book ahead or are bookings not required as I've heard it's a fairly low-key kind of 'park'?
Also - is fuel plentiful between
Coober Pedy and Ayres
Rock?
Thank you to those who have been very helpful with their replies.
Reply By: johnsie - Sunday, Jan 25, 2004 at 16:07
Sunday, Jan 25, 2004 at 16:07
Unless it peak tourist season I doubt whether it vital to book but a coutsey call is always a better option
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Reply By: STAN - Sunday, Jan 25, 2004 at 17:54
Sunday, Jan 25, 2004 at 17:54
Hi GTee. I stopped at
Curtin Springs in Sep 03 it's OK not 5 star but all facilities Hell of a lot cheaper than Uluru Yes we would use it again. Plenty of fuel between
Coober Pedy and
Alice Springs. Have a great trip. Stan
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Follow Up By: GTee - Sunday, Jan 25, 2004 at 20:42
Sunday, Jan 25, 2004 at 20:42
Hi Stan,
When you say it is 'not 5 star' - how basic is it?
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Follow Up By: bruce - Monday, Jan 26, 2004 at 12:26
Monday, Jan 26, 2004 at 12:26
Basic-basic..maybe 1---2 stars..maybe...but for the price its o.k.
toilets ,showers , a cold beer if you want it...friendly people...cheers
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Follow Up By: Member - Nick (TAS) - Monday, Jan 26, 2004 at 20:21
Monday, Jan 26, 2004 at 20:21
I'd call it 1/4 to 1/2 star rating.
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Reply By: Member - Bob - Sunday, Jan 25, 2004 at 18:22
Reply By: TravellingVegemite - Monday, Jan 26, 2004 at 12:23
Monday, Jan 26, 2004 at 12:23
Hi there
I stayed at
Curtin Springs in April last year. It's free to
camp there unless you want power. Showers are $1.
We went on a camel ride into the sunset - would highly recommend it. The cameleer then came and set up a campfire for all the campers and we sat around it listening to bush stories.
We actually stayed at
Yulara while at Ayers
Rock, as it's closer, and you need a few days to do everything there (climb
rock, walk around
rock, walk around olgas, sunsets, sunrises, etc) and because we were staying there, they let us use the 3-day park pass for 5 days. We used
Curtin Springs for one night as a springboard to be an hour or so down the road for our drive to
Kings Canyon the next day.
Cheers
Roger
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Follow Up By: TravellingVegemite - Monday, Jan 26, 2004 at 14:03
Monday, Jan 26, 2004 at 14:03
It is very basic - I just looked at my photos. It's basically red sand, with trees scattered around. There's a community campfire in the centre. The
toilets are basic. You can see if anyone's in them as you can see their feet through the 1 foot or so gap around the bottom of the
toilet block. It's real outback atmosphere though.
Roger
Here is a photo of the
campground (I didn't have one of the
toilet block - which is to the left of the photo. The roadhouse/pub is further to the left of the
toilet block again.
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