Comment: Busselton

The Capes coast, Busselton-Dunsborough-Yallingup- Margaret River is a very popular holiday destination, not too far from Perth for a quick weekend away or for school holiday times ,and like just about everywhere else, the prices go up at those times.

Almost all popular destinations here in WA run a High, Mid and Low season price range. Try Broome and Exmouth in High season to see just how high the prices can be.

As others have said, Book ahead in peak times, and if you can't get in, look at the smaller towns a bit inland.

Disco.

Despite being a Perthite, I ceased going to the SW of WA during any holiday season or major event, over 20 yrs ago.
The traffic, the crowds, and the general overwhelming of every facility in the SW, by a mass of humanity, promptly makes you ask yourself why you left Perth, with its identical problems!

It's a lovely area, but one that is suffering from the very worst that major inflows of too much money, and too many people, do to lovely areas.
Perhaps it's just me, but I get no joy in fighting for accommodation, fighting for parking spots, fighting to get a feed, and fighting to get a nice spot to relax and enjoy the scenery.
Add in the price-gouging of these areas, and what happens, is what has happened to Broome - people get sick of it, and prefer to go elsewhere.

Cheers, Ron.

My post was to simply alert those who are traveling/touring of the potential pitfalls they may encounter when trying to stay in Busso. Being harsh was not my objective.
Busselton has grown, but you still have to stay there if you want a base for exploring the area.We spent many years going to this very beautiful and interesting region for holidays with our kids, and when it got too busy for us, we chose to stay elsewhere.
We now are in a position where we don't have to take kids on holidays anymore, and are able to go touring and discover more of this amazing country.
The traveling tourist would be well aware of the unavoidable tourist high seasons, but they may not realize the impact of the frequent events on accommodation in the area.
The last thing you need is to roll into a town, with a almost a dozen parks, tired after a day's driving, wanting a site for the night, and then find out there is an event on which means there is a minimum booking required, or that there is no room. I would not expect to check the site availability of a park weeks before arrival!
As I stated before, I had to make a minimum booking of 2 nights, or elsewhere, take a powered (not ensuite) site for $116 for the night , 2 months before I wanted to stay (had I wanted a site only Sunday night the tarrif was $60). As for the motel room, every room in town was booked out least 2 weeks before last Saturday's concert. Believe me, I checked!
If I am carting a tonne of $40,000 caravan, I would be hugely disappointed have to take a motel room for a bed for the night or stay in an inland park away from the much cooler coast (which is one of the main attractions of Busselton).
By all means, the Capes region is a spectacular and interesting place to visit, but don't get caught out with accommodation either for availability or price.

We did get a site out in a comparatively very inexpensive park halfway between Bussleton and Dunsborough. I have left my review on the Exploreoz "Places" section. We now understand why this was the only park not booked out.

Why not give a link to the review you have referred to Ramona? Or give a summary of it on this thread?