Prom Central Caravan Park

Review Prom Central Caravan Park, Foster, Victoria What’s not to like about Foster … a gorgeous small rural community servicing the regional dairy industry and the seasonal tourist industry based upon Wilsons Promontory and the surrounding coastal/hill country. There’s also a considerable pioneering heritage legacy that originated with the shifting patterns of cattle drovers/graziers and the relatively short-lived and modest gold mining that was based upon what came to be called Stockyard Creek. The small township that was establish adjacent to the creek was renamed Foster in the mid-1880s (after a regional Police Magistrate). That’s perhaps all-by-the-way, except Foster is an ideal base from which to explore Wilsons Prom. The township has an impressive Victorian heritage image, selection of places in which to stay and eat, an interesting museum and easy access to the surrounding countryside. It’s little more than 40 minutes by car to Tidal River in the commercial/recreational centre of Wilsons Prom – where Parks Victoria has a visitors’ centre for the national park. Foster was our first stop on the road journey to Sydney – following the coast north and then across hill country to Canberra. We had two nights in Foster and chose to stay at the Prom Central Caravan Park. Our findings were much like those already recorded – large extensive area with lines of box-like chalets spaced one to the other with just sufficient space to park a car in between. Established to a modest traditional design that presumably suited those original holidaymakers from the post-war years and through into the modern era. Our two-person chalet was clean, convenient and an easy place in which to stay. It was spacious. We had a double bed in an alcove to one side of the living space/kitchen/dining room as you enter the chalet. At the rear of the chalet was a sliding door opening on to a room with a single bed inside. It led to the shower/washbasin/toilet. So, the place would have slept three. Instead, we used the bed and hanging wardrobe as a place in which to spread our things. ‘Functional’ as a descriptor comes to mind. More to the point everything in our chalet worked satisfactorily. Well … the mixer valve (or whatever it was) which delivered hot and cold water to the shower head seemed to have a mind of its own; you needed a mix because without the two streams the shower was either much to cold or impossibly hot. We learned to grab a few minutes wherein the cross-over from hot to cold or cold to hot was practical. For a couple of nights, it was no big deal. We were fortunate to have a shower/toilet in-chalet. (Needless to say, there was no issue with the separate hot and cold taps in the kitchen – worked as designed.) Oh, and if you’re ＜1.7 m you’ll have difficulty reaching the upper cupboards in the kitchen. There’s nothing convenient to stand on either. The caravan park was relatively empty and, consequently, the place was quiet. The office is immediately next to t

Park has been neglected the last 5 years but new owners (6 months) are doing a terrific job. All cabins starting to have paintwork done and the lawns are looking really good. Our cabin was spotless, very quiet and easy walk into Foster.. New owner is fastidious about clean cabins and the shared facilities, I am sure this place will be transformed in no time. Would stay again.