Welcome to Absolute Oceanfront Tourist Park

We are privately owned, and our park is managed by independent contract managers.  To ensure that your stay and that of others is safe and enjoyable, please read and observe the following occupancy conditions.

Entry Statement

  • You acknowledge that you are staying at the Absolute Oceanfront Tourist Park, for holiday purposes only.
  • No illegal activities are to take place anywhere within any of the Absolute Oceanfront Tourist Park property.
  • Swearing, excessive consumption of alcohol, use of illegal substances, amplified noise and antisocial/disruptive behaviour that interferes with the peace comfort and privacy of other guests in the park will result in you being required to leave and possible Police involvement.

All persons enter the Absolute Oceanfront Tourist Park at their own risk. The park accepts no liability for the theft of, or damage to guests’ possessions, including vehicles.

Identification

On check-in, please present a photo ID, driver’s license, or passport. The ID must match the name that appears on the booking. For late arrivals (after hours) please visit reception the following morning to present your ID.

Persons Under 18

Persons under the age of 18 are not permitted to make a reservation. We reserve the right to cancel any of these types of reservations.

Subletting of bookings

Subletting is not permitted. Accommodation and sites are provided to the booking party for the guest(s) as named on the booking.

Site Availability

  • While every effort is made by our park team to accommodate preferred sites or cabins, this is not guaranteed. There may be a requirement to change the site or accommodation due to operational reasons, unscheduled maintenance etc.
  • Management reserves the right to relocate or change the site number, when necessary, after your booking has been made.
  • You must to provide the size and dimensions details of your van/motorhome/tent etc prior to your booking confirmation. If you have provided incorrect details, we may not be able to accommodate you on the sites available at the park. In these instances, we can not offer refunds. We can only offer alternative dates or larger sites where available.
  • Management will allocate sites based on the best scenario at the time. Please ensure you state the total exterior length of your van from front to back including all attachments and drawbar.
  • We aim to provide you with clean, comfortable, and well-presented accommodation. 
  • If you have any concerns with the accommodation, please speak to reception within 1 hour of you having entered the accommodation, otherwise, it is considered that you have accepted the accommodation as being suitable.
  • We require that you leave your accommodation in a reasonable state. 
  • Upon your departure, where excess cleaning is required or we have reason to believe a guest has smoked in accommodation, an amount of $150 will be applied to your client account. This will apply to any damage, repairs, or replacement of missing items.
  • Guests can request a service (bed linen and towel change) for an additional charge. Cabins will be provided with a linen change every 7 days if booking is more than 7 days.

Large Vehicles

Please notify the park team at the time of booking if your vehicle length exceeds 5.5 meters and has a towing weight capacity of 3 tonnes. 

Check-in / Check-out

Cabins

Check-in is 2 pm

Check-out is 10 am

Sites

Check-in is 12 pm for Sites

Check-out is 10 am

Early check-in and late check-out are subject to availability and should be discussed with management.

Discounts

Where a guest has made a reservation under an exclusive offer or discount, no further offers or discounts will be applied to that reservation. 

Cancellation /Refunds Policy

Refunds of deposits and fees paid are only available from Absolute Oceanfront Tourist Park under the following circumstances. All cancellations and booking changes must be received in writing by email or text message.

For further information please refer to the Booking & Cancellation policy on our website.

Native fauna

Be advised that native wildlife lives naturally within our Holiday Park (including but not limited to snakes, birds, possums, frogs, mice, spiders, kangaroos etc).  We ask that guests refrain from feeding wildlife and ensure that food waste scraps are taken to receptacles provided, or if kept within your camping site or cabin, that they are kept in sealed containers.  Feeding wildlife encourages unnaturally high populations within our Holiday Parks, which can cause a nuisance to visitors as they become less dependent on their natural foraging behaviour.   To help protect our natural environment and maintain the quality of your stay, please refrain from feeding the wildlife and watch out for dangerous snakes.

No responsibility is taken by the park for acts of God involving falling wildlife droppings, or accidental spider or snake bites.

Trees

  • At times, debris from trees will fall. Please be aware of this when setting up/positioning your caravan or camp.
  • No responsibility is taken by the park for acts of God involving falling trees or tree debris.
  • The tying of clotheslines, ropes, hammocks, or the like from trees is prohibited.

Sustainability

  • Please use water and energy wisely,
  • Please report leaking taps, toilets, or showers to Park Management.
  • Spend less than four minutes in the shower.
  • Consider readily available solar power options during your stay.
  • Consider air-conditioning use when not required.
  • Recycle waste whenever possible using receptacles provided.
  • Minimise laundry where possible.

Rubbish

  • Please wrap rubbish items securely and use the bins provided.
  • Please place glass, plastics, aluminium, cardboard etc in the designated recycling units.
  • No surplus items, bulky items or belongings are to be left in, or at your accommodation.

Security

While the Park Managers do their best to ensure a safe and secure environment, we do recommend that visitors to the park take the precaution of securing items of value left outside their tent, caravan or cabin during the day and overnight. Your property is your responsibility. No refunds or reimbursements will be provided for loss or damage.

General Rules

  • Please respect others. Disturbing your neighbours and disrupting the peaceful stay of other guests may lead to you and your party being required to leave.
  • Speed limits in the park grounds is strictly a walking pace (4 km per hour)
  • No generators are allowed to operate.
  • The peaceful enjoyment of our park and its facilities by all visitors is important to us. All loud noise must cease between 10 pm and 7 am inclusive of Television and Radios. No generators allowed.
  • Parents are responsible for their children’s care and behaviour. Children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult and always supervised in the park grounds, amenities, swimming pool, camp kitchen and other common areas.
  • No washing cars or other vehicles within the park grounds
  • One vehicle per site.
  • Cars must be parked in your nominated parking space.
  • No emptying of caravan toilet waste on-site or in the amenity’s facilities. Please use the dump point indicated on the park map. A $200 fee will be charged to your credit card if you disregard this request.
  • No smoking or burning incense inside cabins or within 4 metres of the entrance of any park facilities such as common areas, Amenities buildings, playgrounds, and other structures.
  • All guests (including children) staying overnight must be registered on the booking.
  • Any people staying in your accommodation, or at your site, other than those listed on your booking, will attract additional charges.
  • Visitors’ cars must be parked outside the park.
  • Fires or naked flames are not permitted within the grounds of the park. 

Common Areas

  • Please keep the BBQ area and other common-use facilities clean and tidy, and check they are suitable for the next guest after your use.
  • Modest consumption of alcohol in common areas of the park is allowed. Excessive consumption of alcohol and drunken behaviour is unacceptable and may result in you being asked to leave.
  • Playing, games, bike riding etc, at the park entrance is prohibited.
  • Bikes, Scooters, skateboards, rollerblades, and other similar devices are not to be used in or around the amenities and swimming pool area.
  • No responsibility or liability will be taken by Absolute Oceanfront Tourist Park should any injury arise from a person operating any personal recreational or mobility devices within the park.

Scooters and Bikes

Scooters and Bikes are permitted to be ridden in the park in accordance with normal road rules. This requires the wearing of a helmet, adhering to speed limits and only during daylight hours.

Swimming Pool

  • The Pool is restricted to registered only for guests and visitors of Absolute Oceanfront Tourist Park.
  • Please refer to the Pool hours signed at the pool area
  • No running, dive bombing, pushing or ball games in the pool area.
  • No glass or alcohol is permitted in or around the pool.
  • No foodstuffs are to be taken into the pool area.

Breach of Rules, Terms and Conditions

  • Failing to comply with these terms and conditions will be viewed as a break of the accommodation contract and may result in you being required to leave the park.
  • Being required to leave the park will mean you forfeit all money previously paid for the booking period. To be clear, there will be no refund of monies paid for any forward remaining nights of accommodation.
  • In the case of eviction or abandonment, the authority’s agent or park manager has the authority to remove from the park, any items left behind by post stipulated time of eviction. While all care will be taken, the managers will take no responsibility for any damage or loss.

Privacy Policy

Personal information

Absolute Oceanfront Tourist Park Bargara, at 117 Woongarra Scenic Drive, Bargara QLD, 4670, Australia. This privacy policy will explain how our software uses the personal data collected from you when you book with us. We are committed to treating the privacy of our customers with utmost importance.

We respect our customers’ privacy and for that reason, we will manage our customers’ personal information in accordance with our privacy policy as stated below. By making a reservation with our onsite managers you confirm that you agree to the Privacy and cookie policy detailed below.

The types of personal information we collect.

We collect information both in person at our Parks or via internet booking engines (including www.booking.com) and online travel agents, to allow you to make a reservation at one of our Parks.

The information we collect to do this includes:

  • Name
  • Address
  • Contact details
  • details of your stay with us (arrival and departure time, and number of other guests).
  • Vehicle including registration number and the make, model
  • Dimensions of any caravans or trailers that are the subject of your reservation.

The only transactional information we collect at booking is confirmation of payment or balance owing.

Why we collect personal information

We, use the personal information you provide for the following purposes:

  • Register your details with Absolute Oceanfront Tourist Park Bargara, at 117 Woongarra Scenic Drive, Bargara QLD 4670
  • Record your booking or other purchase with Absolute Oceanfront Tourist Park Bargara, at 117 Woongarra Scenic Drive, Bargara QLD 4670
  • To maintain a database of current and past guests
  • Subscribing to our email newsletter
  • Effectively administer records, accounts and financial transactions
  • Assist our internal administration and operations
  • Establish residential tenancy agreements

Additionally, we use the information within our software to help us screen for potential risk and breaches (in particular, IP addresses). More generally to improve and optimize our website (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

How we collect personal information

We collect personal information in a variety of ways, including (but not limited to):

  • Directly from individuals such as when you subscribe to our newsletter via our website or when you complete a guest registration with our park managers.
  • Through our social media pages and from social media sites when you like our posts or page.
  • From third parties that provide us with marketing; market research; and marketing and web analytics services.
  • Where you send us an email or ‘contact us’ message or make a written enquiry with us; and
  • When you call us to make enquiries

Storage and security of personal information

We take the security of the personal information we hold seriously and handle personal information sensitively and in accordance with applicable privacy laws.

We take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information we hold from misuse, interference and loss; and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.

How long do we keep your personal information?

If we no longer need the personal information we hold about you, we take steps to delete, destroy or de-identify that information. All information is stored in accordance with a data retention policy that sets out how long we keep different types of information, depending on what the information is and the purpose for which it was collected. For example, we need to keep information about your reservation in order to provide you with accommodation at our park. It may also be necessary for us to retain personal information to comply with our legal obligations; or for insurance or audit purposes.

Marketing

We also use personal information to market and promote our products and services, including to:

  • Contact you about special offers or promotions we think may be of interest to you (where we have a legal basis to process your information in this way); and
  • Conduct marketing and web tracking analysis.

When you provide your personal details to us, you consent to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes (unless you have already opted out of marketing, or until you opt-out). Personal information may be disclosed for marketing purposes to an organisation or people who assist in our direct marketing, for example an external mail house.

From time to time, we may contact you with information about products and services offered by us and our related entities and our business partners, that we think may be of interest to you. When we contact you it may be by phone call, email or SMS.

You have the right to opt-out of marketing communications we send you at any time. You can exercise this right by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link in the marketing e-mails we send you or contact us via email.

Cookies and other technologies

We collect information relating to your web activity when you access and browse our Website. In particular, we may collect information using cookies, and similar technologies, designed to provide information to help us improve the use of our Website and to better tailor the content we provide.

A cookie is a text file containing small amounts of information which is downloaded to your device when you access a website. This information may include your IP address, information and actions taken on the site including details about when you accessed the site. The text file is then sent back to our server each time your browser requests a page from the server. Information generated by the cookie about the use of our website may be transferred to, and stored by, a web analytics service, which may be based overseas, that we use to help use improve our online services. This enables us to provide a better website visitor experience by loading the site so that it reflects your personal preferences as previously indicated last time you browsed. Some cookies also help with ensuring the functionality of the site.

Additionally, emails we send to you use technology that allows us to understand the time and date that an email was opened and whether any links within the email were clicked. Compiling this information allows us to conduct statistical analysis to better understand how effective our electronic marketing campaigns are and customise our advertising services based on the results. You can disable some of this technology by turning images ‘off’ in your email client (i.e. Outlook) and you can opt-out of receiving emails from us sending us an email at info@oceanfrontpark.com.au, Absolute Oceanfront Tourist Park Bargara, at 117 Woongarra Scenic Drive, Bargara QLD 4670

The types of cookies we use are set out below. You can configure your web browser to reject and delete cookies but this may limit the functionality of Website so that it does not operate properly.

Analytical and performance cookies

We use website analytics service providers, such as Google Analytics, that use cookies to analyse our Website traffic. These analytics service providers collect information and statistics about the Website, including by counting the number of visitors and tracking how visitors use the site. This type of analysis helps us make our Website more effective to use, for example by improving how easy it is for visitors to find what they are looking for on a site or fixing any issues users have with a site. Information supplied by analysis cookies helps us to understand how our visitors use our Website in order to improve the user experience.

Advertising/targeting cookies

Targeting cookies are often linked to services provided by third parties on our Website. Third-party service providers may use their own cookies to collect information about your activities on our Website. They work by identifying your device and browser to recognise your visit to the Websites. Not enabling these cookies will disable the services provided by third parties on our Website, such as tools to share or access content from social media sites or options to watch videos by third-party video providers.

Functionality cookies

We may use functional cookies that record the choices you have made on our Website so that we can continue to provide you with information you are interested in during that visit and any subsequent visits. This allows us to provide content that is tailored and relevant, and to improve the Website experience for our Website users.

Strictly necessary cookies

We collect cookies that are necessary for our Website to operate and load properly. You can set your web browser to block these cookies but without these cookies you may not be able to move around the Website and use its features.

Privacy policies of other websites

The Absolute Oceanfront Tourist Park Bargara website https://www.oceanfrontpark.com.au/ contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

Changes to this policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. If you continue to access or use our services after notified changes have come into effect, you will have agreed to the revised policy.

Making a complaint

If you have any concerns about our information handling practices, you can email us at info@oceanfrontpark.com.au so that we can try and resolve the issue quickly and directly.

Contact details

You can contact us by:

  • Sending an email to info@oceanfrontpark.com.au;
  • Calling us on  (07) 4159 2436 between 9:00am and 5:00pm AEST Monday-Friday (excluding public holidays);
  • Writing to us at: 117 Woongarra Scenic Drive, Bargara QLD 4670