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Wakatu Carpark
Certified self-contained vehicles only.
Maximum 20 vehicles.
The area designated for camping is indicated by blue line making in the car park.
This car park is right in the middle of the Nelson CBD and are in the Nelson City Council 24 hour liquor ban area.
Tourists have been issued with $250 fines, and in some cases arrests have been made of those who have breached the ban.
It is a breach of the liquor ban, even if it is a quiet wine with dinner.
Council enforces the vehicle limit under the Bylaw and a $200 infringement fine can be issued for any breaches.
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South Island ▷ Nelson Region ▷ Nelson |
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Reviews
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1.5/5
Free camping but toilet is in the park cross the road so sketchy at night.
Lights are on everywhere. Also very loud, work going on from 4:30am til about 6am. Worst nights sleep in a while.
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3.5/5
Stayed over on a Wednesday night.
Very quite and lots of spaces. No toliets onsite but good ones available in the other carparks 5min away. Found it a bit hard to sleep due to the street lights but that's a given when parking in a city. Checked the Nelson website regarding leaving time which states 7am. However the paid parking doesn't start until 8 so you may have leeway. There's also free city WiFi available and good coffee in Hattie's.
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1.5/5
Was ok until parking warden gave us a 40 dollar ticket for being 1/2 an hour over the 8 am time limit no warning just slinked in an put it on our windscreen and ran we asked why but he had this self entitlement
attitude and left I can see why no other vans were here there were 50 odd free parks at this time of the morning. I work for a council in the north island and I’d be ashamed of that type of attitude if he worked for us, officer 58.
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3.5/5
Great freedom camping spot in the middle of Nelson for self contained campers.
Well done Nelson council. Right by timezone. Stayed Friday night but was pleasantly suprised by the lack of noise after 11pm.
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4.0/5
Even though it was just a car park, we really liked it there.
Other campervans around you, Walking distance to town, toilets and public showers to pay in walking distance. We spent New Years Eve there.
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5.0/5
Excellent!
Super central and lots of spots. Was only half full when I was there. Nelson you rock!
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