We have been visiting
Gordon country on and off for the last 10 years and after an absence of 2 years we visited them once again.
Well all I can say is that greed has taken over the
Gordon's, camping once was 2 dollars a night ( 10 years ago)which rose to $25 for the long weekend(about 2 years ago) which is pretty reasonable. Now the charge is $51.50 per person for a 3 day long weekend with a $25.00 so called 4wd driving fee and to top it off there is a fee of $2.00 to use your own porta potie. For the money we were told that hot showers, drinking water and
toilets will be supplied, as we just turned up which is the way country operates and were already committed to staying there for the weekend (as we just drove 2 hrs to get there) we payed the money and camped.
Well the showers are only in one spot which is
well almost like camping in a caravan park and definitely not what we just drove 2 hrs to be at, drinking water is supplied as long as you only want to fill a drinking cup and take that back to
camp and the
toilets well think of the most disgusting
public toilet you have been in and that is clean compared to
Gordon country's
toilets which after the first night they didn't bother filling the generator and starting so you had to go in the dark. Does this sound reasonable for $51.50 per person i think not.
To top it all off the tracks to all the secluded
camp sites have been either fenced off or bulldozed so you have no choice to
camp near the
toilet blocks. The
Gordon country we once loved is now gone a place as it says in their website "The way it used to be " has been replaced with a 4000 acre caravan park for yuppies that are afraid to go with out a shower or to
toilet in a hole as it might be to hard for them. We loved the place as it was
bush camping the way it should be without any amenities and secluded. Now we must find a new place to
camp at as we will not be back to
Gordon country unless things change, if they must pursue this caravan park style of camping why not give people the choice and price it accordingly not blanket charge people for things they do not want or use.
So sad
Matt