Great place for a day, a week, a month. Cheap weekly rates, mostly grassy, sheltered sites, good water and amenities. 5 Minute walk to major supermarkets, and 50 variety shops.
Bonnie and James are managers... very helpful and friendly. Pet friendly, but dawgs MUST be on leads.
Are thy mowing the grass there yet? Last time I saw it it looked very uninviting.
rockylizard said
08:59 PM Oct 9, 2014
Gday...
It is all like a bowling green now.
And plenty of visitors - been over 12 there every night for the past week or so. There are 18 there tonight.
Cheers - John
george57 said
09:49 AM Oct 12, 2014
G'day
Over the last 3 years I have been filling the service station across the road the the Sale Racecourse, don't know if its the same as the showgrounds but in that time I have watched the daily rate rise from $17 to $25 as it stands now. My immediate question is why????? What would cause an approximate 40% per year rise in their operating costs, and its not even their primary business. I'd be interested in knowing where the profits go?
I personally wouldnt stay there, not even for $17......I don't know how anyone sleeps there, it is situated on the corner of a busy T intersection which has a high volume of trucks not to mention gas tankers rocking up at all hours running their pumps.
Cheers George & fatdog
-- Edited by george57 on Sunday 12th of October 2014 09:52:57 AM
tonyac said
11:31 PM Jan 8, 2016
Rarely hear road noise, sometimes the trains in the distance.
Is friendly, easy to park, near town. Prices are now $20 a night or $133 a week.
Just spent three weeks here over Christmas and New Years.
-- Edited by tonyac on Friday 8th of January 2016 11:31:23 PM
I arrived back at Sale Showgrounds on 8 Dec 2015 and unfortunately am still here until the end of this week.
If we didn't meet, it woulda been good to have met ya and chewed the fat.
My rig (not taken at Sale though)
Cheers - John
PeterD said
02:56 PM Jan 9, 2016
george57 wrote:
I have watched the daily rate rise from $17 to $25 as it stands now. My immediate question is why????? What would cause an approximate 40% per year rise in their operating costs, and its not even their primary business. I'd be interested in knowing where the profits go?
The show ground trusts are after every dollar they can get to improve their grounds. The extra funds would not be going into the committee members pockets.
If they are keeping the grounds neater and tidier then it would be worth the price, I would not stop if the grounds were like I saw them some years ago.
The other thing effecting the camping costs is the caravan park lobby groups. I don't know what it is like in Victoria but in Queensland they are being forced to charge "economic rates." The park lobby in Barcaldine bitched lo much that the state government forced the show ground trust to charge the same rates as the two caravan parks were charging (the show ground trusts generally do not own the land, they lease it from the Crown.)
-- Edited by PeterD on Saturday 9th of January 2016 03:24:57 PM
tonyac said
10:33 PM Jan 10, 2016
rockylizard wrote:
Gday...
Damn - we probably met and even chatted
I arrived back at Sale Showgrounds on 8 Dec 2015 and unfortunately am still here until the end of this week.
If we didn't meet, it woulda been good to have met ya and chewed the fat.
My rig (not taken at Sale though)
Cheers - John
Hi John,
Am just across from you under the oaks - White falcon ute. Might pop over for quick chat before we leave tomorrow
Great place for a day, a week, a month. Cheap weekly rates, mostly grassy, sheltered sites, good water and amenities. 5 Minute walk to major supermarkets, and 50 variety shops.
Bonnie and James are managers... very helpful and friendly. Pet friendly, but dawgs MUST be on leads.
Great place
Prices oct 2014
Gday...
It is all like a bowling green now.
And plenty of visitors - been over 12 there every night for the past week or so. There are 18 there tonight.
Cheers - John
G'day
Over the last 3 years I have been filling the service station across the road the the Sale Racecourse, don't know if its the same as the showgrounds but in that time I have watched the daily rate rise from $17 to $25 as it stands now. My immediate question is why????? What would cause an approximate 40% per year rise in their operating costs, and its not even their primary business. I'd be interested in knowing where the profits go?
I personally wouldnt stay there, not even for $17......I don't know how anyone sleeps there, it is situated on the corner of a busy T intersection which has a high volume of trucks not to mention gas tankers rocking up at all hours running their pumps.
Cheers
George & fatdog
-- Edited by george57 on Sunday 12th of October 2014 09:52:57 AM
Rarely hear road noise, sometimes the trains in the distance.
Is friendly, easy to park, near town. Prices are now $20 a night or $133 a week.
Just spent three weeks here over Christmas and New Years.
-- Edited by tonyac on Friday 8th of January 2016 11:31:23 PM
Gday...
Damn - we probably met and even chatted
I arrived back at Sale Showgrounds on 8 Dec 2015 and unfortunately am still here until the end of this week.
If we didn't meet, it woulda been good to have met ya and chewed the fat.
My rig (not taken at Sale though)
Cheers - John
The show ground trusts are after every dollar they can get to improve their grounds. The extra funds would not be going into the committee members pockets.
If they are keeping the grounds neater and tidier then it would be worth the price, I would not stop if the grounds were like I saw them some years ago.
The other thing effecting the camping costs is the caravan park lobby groups. I don't know what it is like in Victoria but in Queensland they are being forced to charge "economic rates." The park lobby in Barcaldine bitched lo much that the state government forced the show ground trust to charge the same rates as the two caravan parks were charging (the show ground trusts generally do not own the land, they lease it from the Crown.)
-- Edited by PeterD on Saturday 9th of January 2016 03:24:57 PM
Hi John,
Am just across from you under the oaks - White falcon ute. Might pop over for quick chat before we leave tomorrow
Regards
tony