What is a “Holiday Park”?

Our accommodations for the night we’re at a Holiday Park. Thermal Springs Holiday Park, Rotorua, to be specific. Unfortunately, we had waited until the last minute to book, and all that they had left was a small trailer with two sets of bunkbeds in it. No table. No chairs. No running water. Communal bathrooms. The kids were not impressed when we arrived. My husband wasn’t either. At least one of the bunk beds was a double/single, though that’s still the smallest bed we have shared in a long time.

In the morning we took advantage of the thermal hot springs baths and the heated swimming pool.

To be honest, the facilities were fine, totally adequate, just not the houses and apartments we’d been staying in, which had at least two bedrooms and full kitchens.