This does not sound good, realistic, or a benefit for the future.
https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3...-iRVVRyO-7p9NQ
This does not sound good, realistic, or a benefit for the future.
https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3...-iRVVRyO-7p9NQ
Unsophisticated... AF!
What a load of BS.
Not too thrilled that the Te Araroa Trail is edging further in there. What's so special about them?
just work out what it costs to maintain these huts against the estimated users/year and go from there.user pays is always the best option.how much money is doc still dumping into the maoris in Te Urewara?No more free money is the place to start to increase cash flow to balance the book.
Just walked into Hackett hut its a 6 bunk hut on the TA route, counting the numbers in the hut book I made it 16 bodies stayed last night. Also talked to a chap with his 2 young sons who camped there last he said it was jam packed. All the TA walkers have a TA pass to stay in the huts.
Happy Jack.
Not that i use huts a lot but I don't like the idea of a booking system . It has always been first come first served and make room for late comers'. Imagine staggering in well after dark cold wet and tired and being told by some Forest and Bird type that the hut was booked and you had to leave ?
The DOC (caravan) campsite ticket has changed for the worst too. More expensive. We will no longer be patronising their sites. At Kerr Bay, St Arnaud, I’ve seen several freeloaders parking in their budget vans on lake edge near ‘No Overnight Camping’ signs. Spoke with custodian who said there was nothing much he could do about it.
One thing I was wondering if you turn up to a hut and you have purchased a ticket do you have the right to ask for a bed if someone hasn’t paid for a ticket. As you know when you are hunting and the weather turns bad you head for the nearest hut and don’t have a ticket.
Department of corruption...
what a bloody disgrace...
I don’t visit huts with people often but I’d just stick to first come first serve. Unfortunate for those who think they have a booking but just do as Nathan said, and make room. If that happens enough it undermines the system and everyone goes back to first come first serve. They can’t police it and even if they do whatre they going to do? Doc don’t have legal authority to fine people, do they?
The booking system will never work, how would they police it? If they put the fees up too much people just won’t pay and again who would police it?i
A lot of these huts aren’t even maintained by DoC anymore. Tramping clubs and deerstalkers are looking after quite a few now.
I have no respect for DoC anymore after they pretty much gave the green light for the Te Urewera huts to be burnt.
I read most of the proposal. It'll only affect a small number of high use huts, to cover costs of maintenance. And it reads likely that NZ citizen's will pay a lower fee. If that looks like $100 for visitor vs $10 for citizen I reckon all good, but if it ends up being more like $15 for visitor and $10 for citizen I'd be dark.
If it means that DOC can't keep hiding the money it gets from huts and re-directing current hut fees into the big tourist visitor centres I'm for it.
Not enough detail in the consultation document to understand exactly what is going to happen.
It's just a proposal
The media will only have it half right and love a sensational headline
DoC can't manage the booking system as it is
So the cost of recovering the funds and the system to run it will cancel it out
There are more people to write reports at DoC than there are to implement the reports
Doubt it will happen or if anything happens it will be vastly watered down to what they can manage
The Church of
John Browning
of the Later-Day Shooter
Sounds like I'll stick with my camping in the bush or on the grass outside the hut.
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