The park combines sweeping views across Doubtless Bay with modern facilities and diverse accommodation \u2013 from self-contained chalets, villas and motel units to family studios, kitchen cabins, and powered and non-powered campervan and tent sites. This allows the business to tap into a broad visitor market, from families and groups to fishing enthusiasts, lifestyle escape seekers, and luxury self-drive tourists. <\/p>\n
An existing resource consent, valid until 2032, allows further expansion by developing a vacant area with 15 new chalet units.<\/p>\n
The land, buildings, business and chattels sustaining the holiday park are being offered to new owners as a freehold going concern. Sale is by negotiation, through Wayne Keene, Eddie Rizarri and Gary Lucus of Bayleys Real Estate.<\/p>\n
It is the latest Far North holiday park to sell after Hihi Beach Holiday Park and Ahipara Holiday Park were taken over by new owners in 2024.<\/p>\n
The Whatuwhiwhi sale comes as New Zealand\u2019s holiday park sector undergoes a sharp recovery, with 2025 marking the strongest rebound since borders reopened after Covid-19. The sector now accounts for around a quarter of all commercial guest nights nationwide.<\/p>\n
The Whatuwhiwhi Top 10 Holiday Park is for sale after decades of providing holiday memories.<\/p>\n
The business has operated for more than three decades, evolving from a family-run coastal campground into a significant regional tourism operation with a wide mix of accommodation types.<\/p>\n
Bayleys hotels, tourism and leisure sales national director, Wayne Keene, said the business offers the chance to capitalise on strong domestic and growing international holiday park demand.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis profitable, long-established tourism business combines income backed by strong occupancy and loyal clientele, with excellent long-term growth potential which is both business-specific and sector-driven. Originally a family-run coastal campground, it has established itself as a leading Northland holiday destination,\u201d Keene said.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow part of the trusted nationwide Top 10 network, and run by one fulltime manager, the park has attracted a multitude of repeat customers over its three decades of hospitality heritage. Combined with quality facilities, this makes it a proven, reputable tourism asset in an idyllic location.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beyond guest units, the extensive well-maintained buildings and infrastructure include communal kitchens, TV lounge and laundry, a staff unit, barbecue areas, and specialist facilities for cleaning fish and washing and launching boats. These are underpinned by an expansive residential-zoned freehold landholding of approximately 2.43ha, which includes plentiful car parking and an area for parking boats.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhatuwhiwhi Top 10 Holiday Park offers a turnkey operation with a long track record of profitability. Its diverse accommodation, contemporary facilities, and waterfront views position it strongly in the New Zealand holiday park market,\u201d Rizarri said.<\/p>\n
The business comes with various avenues for new owners to explore to add further revenue, through the likes of enhanced marketing, off-season promotions, and further development of amenities \u2013 including adding the consented chalets.<\/p>\n
With Northland holiday parks typically recording higher occupancy than the national average, the sale provides a window into broader trends shaping regional tourism recovery, outdoor accommodation demand, and long\u2011term investment in coastal destinations, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The park combines sweeping views across Doubtless Bay with modern facilities and diverse accommodation \u2013 from self-contained chalets,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9055,138,2082,189,2072,117933,75446,101,19133,9943,111,139,1067,69,90,9769,91210,8143,48375,1133,20843,1361,2742,3010,200353,102],"class_list":{"0":"post-386518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-9055","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-for","11":"tag-holiday","12":"tag-holidaymakers","13":"tag-karikari","14":"tag-lasting","15":"tag-left","16":"tag-looking","17":"tag-memories","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-northland","21":"tag-nz","22":"tag-on","23":"tag-owners","24":"tag-paradise","25":"tag-park","26":"tag-peninsula","27":"tag-sale","28":"tag-slice","29":"tag-that","30":"tag-thousands","31":"tag-top","32":"tag-whatuwhiwhi","33":"tag-with"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}