Stratford Top Town Holiday Park Business For Sale
Stratford, New Zealand



Closest Holiday Park to Mt Taranaki

Stratford Top Town Holiday Park is the perfect place to stay while visiting Central Taranaki -

• situated within King Edward Park and offering native bush and a scenic walk to the spectacular Rhododendron Dell.
• handy to Stratford’s Glockenspiel Clock, main street shopping, Tourist Information Centre, gymnasium and heated indoor pools.
• 40km south of New Plymouth and the closest Holiday Park to Mount Taranaki, famous for outdoor adventures and the Egmont Ski Field.
• close to rugged West Coast beaches that provide world class surfing, windsurfing, and boogie boarding.

Stratford Top Town Holiday Park is a popular destination for New Zealand families on holiday. It is also popular with international tourists and backpackers (about 60% of all visitors) who come for the scenic and adventure activities available on Mt Taranaki. International tourism to New Zealand is a growing market and visitor numbers to the Holiday Park are expected to continue to climb.

This long established Holiday Park has come on to the market because the owner wishes to retire. It is being sold on a going concern basis and would ideally suit a new owner with people and management skills, especially in relation to overseas visitors. The business also includes a 3 bedroom owner’s residence and enough room for a growing family looking to escape from big city life.

Qualmark 4-star Holiday Park with private and communal accommodation units

Stratford Top Town Holiday Park offers travellers a selection of accommodation options including motels, cabins, backpacker accommodation, and sheltered camping sites.

• Motels – 5 x fully serviced self contained units, providing all bedding, towels, toiletries, and tea and coffee.

Motel units

• Tourist Flats – 7 x modern first-class self-contained flats providing comfortable heated accommodation.
• Cabins – 6 x Tourist or Standard Cabins - offering differing accommodation and facilities.

Stand-alone cabins

• Backpackers Delight - a 24-bed communal lodge with its own fully equipped kitchen and TV lounge. The lodge has outdoor sun decks overlooking native bush and the Patea River, and is ideal for groups.
• Camping - sheltered individual hedged bays for motor homes, caravans, and tents.

Guest services:

• Television lounge with VCR/TV video library.
• Guest laundry.
• Spa pool.
• Shaded outdoor picnic tables and barbecue area.
• Children's play area.
• On-site shop, payphone, email facilities, Internet access (broadband kiosks).
• Mountain bike hire.
• Pets by arrangement.
• Dump station.

Leasehold premises

Stratford Top Town Holiday Park has operated at 10 Page Street in central Stratford since 1950. The Park is located on 9,100 square metres of land within King Edward Park and has a variety of buildings, some in concrete block and most being of timber construction with iron roofs. Interior walls are painted or wall papered and floors are generally carpeted or covered with vinyl (in wet areas). All buildings have been well maintained and present a fresh, clean and restful décor.

Kitchen-ablution block and picnic tables

Facilities:
Motel office, modern communal kitchen with dining area, toilet and ablution facilities, laundry for linen and towels.

Owner’s residence:
The stand-alone house offers 3 bedrooms, open plan lounge-kitchen-dining room, and bathroom with separate toilet

Lease:
The property is owned by the Stratford District Council and a new 20 year lease is available. If the new owner were to purchase the buildings on the property (valued at $200,000), the Council would waive all rentals.

Assets being sold

A list of lessee fittings, fixtures and chattels being sold is available.

Communal kitchen

Day to day management

Business Hours:
Monday to Sunday - normal Holiday Park hours.

Staff:
The Holiday Park is operated by the owner with assistance from contract cleaners. If required, the present owner is available to assist the new owner, terms by arrangement.

Advertising and Promotion:
The business advertises through roadside signage, a listing in Yellow Pages, and advertisements in local newspapers, Trade Magazines and Travel Guides. Other guests come from the Internet via the business Web site http://www.stratfordtoptownholidaypark.co.nz and from word of mouth recommendations from other happy travellers.

Call Doreen on +64 6 765 6440

Stratford and Central Taranaki

Stratford – the Gateway to the Forgotten World Highway - is situated at the junction of State Highway 3 and State Highway 43 in the centre of Taranaki Province. Mount Taranaki (2518 meters) dominates the region. The mountain is one of the most accessible in New Zealand with numerous access roads and picnic spots. The upper mountain provides winter skiing as well as challenging conditions for trampers and climbers.

Stratford (population about 8,500) is the closest main centre to the Egmont National Park and scenic Dawson Falls. The town is named after William Shakespeare’s birthplace and the streets are named after characters in 39 of his plays. Stratford has numerous Parks and Gardens and the only Glockenspiel in New Zealand. The Glockenspiel plays three times daily and displays three figures of Romeo, and three of Juliet.

The 155 km Forgotten World Highway between Stratford and Taumarunui is New Zealand’s first Heritage Trail. It takes travellers on an intriguing and historic trip through New Zealand’s colonial heritage.

To the west, the Tasman Sea produces some of the best waves in New Zealand, bringing surfers, wind surfers, wave riders and boogie boarders from around the globe. The scores of lakes and rivers around Stratford add to the water playground activities with dam dropping, jet boating, white water rafting and kayaking.

To find out more about Stratford, click on:

http://www.stratfordnz.co.nz/
http://www.stratford.govt.nz/
http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/S/Stratford/Stratford/en
http://www.percythomsongallery.org.nz/
http://www.stratford.nzgolf.net/
http://www.skitaranaki.co.nz/
http://www.tepopo.co.nz/
http://www.windwand.co.nz/walkwaystrails.htm
http://www.stratfordhigh.school.nz/