Nrma Lake Somerset Holiday Park

The Dam and its surrounds are just beautiful. That makes it all the more disappointing that attention to detail with the accommodation is lacking. We had a 2 bedroom chalet for a weekend. It is a 4 sleeper but had only one wine glass! There is no oven, only a 2plate electric stove and a microwave so one clearly opts for BBQ meals but there was no barbeque tongs and no grids to place meat on. There are stainless steel BBQs but the open fire BBQ is really so much more camp style. The washing up liquid comes in squeeze sachet and is really weak and quite useless. What's wrong with a small bottle which they can fill as appropriate. Oh yes and just 2 face cloths for 4 people. The coffee and tea mugs-cups are so thick and unappealing one has cold drinks most of the time because your drink has to first warm up the thick crockery! Just all round disappointing - yet we pay a very decent rate??

We have stayed there previously in a cabin but decided to book a glamping tent. After making the booking we read reviews and people said there is no bathroom and no kitchen. It is not worth paying for a tent with no facilities. We cancelled and lost our money .

Great place for waters sports and fishing walking ( the park is 1 km end to end) and just relaxing Very popular as its quite close to Brisbane for weekenders. Amenities are well maintained. A huge range of various sites available as well as glamping.

Just spent relaxing week at lake Somerset. The park grounds were grassy with all sites having water views. We booked an unpowered site and were able to choose our site on arrival. There are several amenity blocks scattered throughout the park and a well equipped camp kitchen. All very clean. The boat ramp catered for 3 boats at a time and we caught lots of yummy redclaw. The fish weren't biting. Children loved the playground, the putt putt, swimming, playing on the big oval and riding their bikes and scooters around the park. I loved the instant boiling water available at the camp kitchen for a quick cuppa and to wash up dishes. Will definitely return.

Nothing I didn't like

Went in January 2022 with a family two primary/ high school children. We usually go to beach style holidays opposed to bush / dam settings so this was a change for us. We have stayed at about 5 other safari tents parks and this park equivalent of “safari/ glamping” is way behind all the others (all other we have stayed at have an ensuite / showers and kitchen amenities including kitchen tap/ sink area and microwave. We stayed in safari tent (1) and it is a basically a budget tent. Even trying to change clothing was a problem due to the layout of the tent and no screening. There were bathroom amenities about 100 m away which were average in cleanliness and very minimal in numbers. The park was no where near at capacity even though it is January school holidays. I would hate to see the lines / etc then with crowds. Safari tent 1 was located right next to the boat ramp so be prepared to listen to boats going in and out and cleaned near the ramp for a solid part of the day time hours. The camp kitchen is on the other side of the park where there were no bins near the kitchen which made it quite the pain to clean off. The safari tent could use a storage tub of basic bbq utensils to use. There is a wood fire pizza place that was on grounds when we were there. Beautiful pizza but $6 surcharge for g/free for one base where the pizza was dinner plate size was a bit steep. The pizza was tasty though. This is a very budget park and it appeared users generally went there for boating. Saturday being a very busy day on the dam bank. Majority of boaties were respectful to each other however a fair few jet ski operators were just complete utter dangers to themselves and other dam users. A few people were seen paddle boarding in the morning however I doubt they could utilise the Dam properly during peak times. There is a small boat, kayak and board company that operates on site and mini golf. The parklands are white baron and both much do do there after the water during the day time. Kilcoy Exchange Hotel was a decent meal and courtesy bus that you could arrange from the park. Whilst we are glad we went, this park certainly doesn’t fit our needs and wants. We will stick to the beach parks. For anyone was looking for a safari tent camp in far south nsw, Seven Mile was awesome.