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Welcome you to Venus Bay Beachfront Tourist Park (formerly Venus Bay Caravan Park)- a delightful spot situated on the beach front. Venus Bay is a small township 6kms from the main highway and lies between Elliston and Streaky Bay on the West Coast of South Australia Included in our pet friendly park are powered sites, tent sites, deluxe, standard & budget cabins (some of which are absolute beach front sites), a fully equipped camp kitchen which includes two gas barbecues, spacious disabled facilities as well as very clean amenities blocks & laundry Venus Bay is an ideal place to fish, surf, explore, or just relax. An assortment of fish are caught in our protected bay including King George Whiting, Tommy Ruff (Herring), Flathead, Salmon Trout, Trevally, Snook, Garfish and Squid. These can be caught either in a boat or just off of the jetty

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Property amenities

Free parking

Outdoor dining area

Beach

Boating

Pets Allowed ( Dog / Pet Friendly )

BBQ facilities

Convenience store

Self-serve laundry

Snack bar

Fishing

Patio

Gift shop

Newspaper

Non-smoking hotel

Outdoor furniture

Room features

Blackout curtains

Air conditioning

Private balcony

Seating area

Kitchenette

Flatscreen TV

Electric blanket

Walk-in shower

Sofa

Wardrobe / wardrobe

Private bathrooms

Wake-up service / alarm clock

Microwave

Refrigerator

Electric kettle

Kitchenware

Complimentary toiletries

Hair dryer

Room types

Ocean view

Non-smoking rooms

Family rooms

Location

32 Matson Terrace, Venus Bay, South Australia 5607 Australia

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Nearby restaurants

Venus Bay Licensed General Store

35 reviews

5 minCafe

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Nearby attractions

Needle Eye Lookout

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8 minPoints of Interest & Landmarks

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Chris S wrote a review Nov 2023

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Perfect

Everything was fantastic. Near new cabin. Well equipped with everything you needed. Very clean and perfect spot looking out over the ocean from your balcony. Very cheap in fact I would say too cheap. Nothing to complain about.

Date of stay: October 2023

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Trip type: Travelled as a couple

Room Tip: Do yourself a favour and visit this hidden gem.

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Lea G wrote a review Nov 2023

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What a beautiful spot!

Fabulous, helpful staff! Many thanks to Tracey, Jill and team. You made it so easy to book via phone and so helpful on our two visits recently. What a truly beautiful view! We loved watching the local pelicans in action - amazing creatures. A well maintained park, the premium beachfront sites are surper!

Date of stay: November 2023Trip type: Travelled as a couple

Room Tip: November is known as Blowvember - putting up a windbreak is a very good idea!

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Ann T wrote a review Nov 2023

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Great 4 weeks

Great location, windy but no one has control over that. Park very clean and tidy, staff friendly and helpful. Beautiful meals from the park shop. We had lovely neighbours and we look forward to returning. One negative and once again no one's fault - entitled arrogant people who take up more room than they should and don't even consider others......they are wherever you go!!!!

Date of stay: November 2023

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Trip type: Travelled as a couple

Room Tip: Just enjoy your stay!!!

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sparklekitty wrote a review Nov 2023

Port Macquarie, Australia59 contributions11 helpful votes

Amazing Spot

What an amazing spot to stay, so beautiful. We stayed in a 2-bedroom cabin, like new, very clean and had everything we needed with a perfect view, could sit on the verandah all day if there weren't so many other things to do there and the surrounding areas. All staff that we spoke to were so friendly and lovely. Cafe onsite where you can eat there with a view and take a few drinks if you want to. Definitely a place to revisit on day.

Date of stay: November 2023

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Trip type: Travelled with family

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susan R wrote a review Nov 2023

Adelaide, Australia2 contributions

For the best accommodation on Eyre Peninsula visit Venus Bay Caravan Park

Friendliest,cheapest accommodation with the best view. Full amenities available would highly recommend anyone travelling through Eyre Peninsula to stay at Venus Bay. Great range of hot foods available.

Date of stay: November 2023

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Trip type: Travelled as a couple

Room Tip: Book early as very popular place to stay.

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mj642541 wrote a review Nov 2023

Redwood Park, Australia5 contributions

Venus Bay

We stayed here in our motor home on a powered sight, and it was awesome. Everyone was super friendly, and staff were very knowledgeable and friendly We will definitely be back Park was very clean and user-friendly. And a very handy general store across the road with a bottle shop attached.

Date of stay: November 2023Trip type: Travelled as a couple

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Lillian G wrote a review Oct 2023

Goulburn, Australia19 contributions1 helpful vote

Wonderful place to stop and chill for a few days

Beautiful little relaxing town. Great fishing and spectacular views. Enjoyed the coffees and cake at the park overlooking the water and happy hour at the general store. The walks and views were amazing. The park was very tidy, bit cosy but very friendly

Date of stay: October 2023Trip type: Travelled with friends

Room Tip: The park hires boats so you can go fishing

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Coompy wrote a review Oct 2023

Denmark, Australia68 contributions31 helpful votes

If you like fishing to the point of enjoying being packed like a sardine…

Well. If you are into loud fishing shirts, and going fishing, and talking about fishing, and even being packed in like a sardine, this is the place for you! This is a review of a powered campsite. Threes stars is a review I don’t usually give, as I’m usually more inclined to give 4-5 or 1-2. Three stars sounds like sitting on the fence, but I really am with this one. For me, it was intolerable, and we left after a night to camp elsewhere, despite having paid for two (fair enough, our choice, we lose the money, but you would have had to pay me a lot to stay!). Others obviously liked it though. From arrival, it felt like we were just a number. One staff member who was on the phone to a future customer did not even acknowledge customers presence at the desk; at best, good service would have been to take the number and call them back, at nearly worst would be to simply say, “Sorry, just on the phone sir/mam, just two secs I’ll be with you! [insert smile here]”. We really did expect a decent, spacious allotment with a bit of a view. Not so. The layout for vans and campers is simply to give you a place to sleep, whilst you spend your day elsewhere, and your nights listening to your neighbours within a few metres, in our case talking about fishing and smoking cannabis. This is the only place I have stayed where my child said tearfully, “Please make them stop making noise! I just want to sleep!”. The sites were dead flat, hard compacted shell and sand. This wasn’t very dusty but very unappealing, glarey and showed up the fact that there hadn’t been any effective site cleaning or raking between guests, with cigarette buts and lollipop sticks littering our area. On top of that, there didn’t seem to be any grey water disposal methods: we watched as our neighbours shower outlet spewed foaming waste water onto the ground, for the next arrival to camp on, presumably! Toilets were average, clean and acceptable. Food was sad, in my opinion. The heart of seafood country and deep fried fish and chips was really the only option. Would have been great to be able to kick back on the veranda with a cheap white and order some local oysters but this seems to be off the cards. Without being pretentious, I would really rather have been charged 1.5-2 times as much for a site, have almost double the space, a ground mat or fake lawn or something and some tree cover (I get it, water is a premium, but stuff can still grow!). The place didn’t seem really kid friendly to me either. Yes, there are things kids can do elsewhere, but there was no playground on site that we found, or cycle paths, so given that the place was stuffed with large vehicles and boats being moved, it didn’t seem like kids were catered for. All in all, as we were not there for fishing (I like fishing but that wasn’t why we came), and would have liked to spend time just chilling and watching the water from our campsite, aside and away from neighbours, this wasn’t the place for us. In any way. It would be great to see effort made to clean the sites well between customers, and to sort grey water disposal, as well as sort out better spacing and change the layout to give better visibility of the water. All in all I must say I was disappointed.…

Date of stay: October 2023Trip type: Travelled with family

Room Tip: Maybe a cabin is more tolerable?

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Katie wrote a review Oct 2023

Roxby Downs, Australia12 contributions1 helpful vote

Heaven on earth

Great location! Great laundry and camp kitchen. Kiosk stocked and takeaway is awesome! If you’re looking for somewhere to stay definitely stay here! Local shop and bottle shop not far away and neither is the jetty. Caravan park hirers boats if you have a license.

Date of stay: October 2023Trip type: Travelled as a couple

Room Tip: Make sure you book. We managed to get in during school holidays. Ring them.

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Mark M wrote a review Oct 2023

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Great place to stay

Great caravan park. Close to everything. Staff were friendly & had plenty on offer in the office. Amenities were very clean. Great fishing spot of the jetty. Licensed general store across the road has great facilities

Date of stay: October 2023

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