31 Jan 2023

Hot Water Beach holiday park struggling after tough seasons

From Checkpoint, 5:28 pm on 31 January 2023

Coromandel tourism businesses are caught in a perfect storm after battling Covid disruptions.

So far the summer has been hampered by rain, and now one of the peninsula's main tourism highways is out of action indefinitely.

Part of State Highway 25A has slipped away entirely and Waka Kotahi can't say when it will reopen.

The road on the eastern side of the peninsula provides access to hop spots like. Whangamata, Pauanui, Tairua. Hahei and Whitianga.

Sheree Webster owns the Hot Water Beach Top 10 Holiday Park. She talks to Lisa Owen.