The left out the part about how it was more like a long-term live-in trailer park, rather than a holiday park. The "cottages" were actually occupied by long-term residents who had decorated their "front yards" with tires, discarded furniture and rusty chains. The "relaxing natural thermal pools" was a luke warm swimming pool (child's size), with peeling paint. The kitchen was a little hodge podge, with mismatched tables of varying heights, a sketchy 1970s refrigerator, and a collection of about 50 mugs from various places in the world.
We had been looking forward to a nice holiday park all day, and were pretty let down when we rolled into town. But, we made the most of it, cooked ourselves up another gourmet dinner of New Zealand mussels, popped open a bottle of NZ red, and watched the sunset from our concrete 'dock' that faced the highway. It couldn't have been all that bad if we had a view like this, especially with all the wine we drank out of those purple plastic cups.
It was a day of pros and cons, because the silver lining to this story was that we (unexpectedly) saw a humpback whale (dolphins are extremely common to find where we were and whales are extremely rare). And that was pretty crazy and amazing.