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Sign at Sandy Creek Pub, Queensland
Hotel Camping

Is pub camping free?

Here’s the ‘how-to’ or ‘pub camping 101’… What do you think of this sign? At CAMPS AUSTRALIA WIDE, it is a given for us to support any business where we camp for free. Especially, if we want businesses like this hotel to continue to offer a free campsite. A camper recently told me that pub stays are NOT free stays, because you are compelled to buy a drink or meal for your patch of land. However, I am a bit of a glass-half-full kind of person. I reasoned that night, I was planning to eat out anyway – or socialise at

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Michelle Gilmore 25 May, 2022
Sandy Creek Pub, Queensland
Budget Campsite

FREEDOM CAMP OF THE MONTH – Sandy Creek Pub, Queensland

There were still a few campers around, and a couple of vans leaving when we dropped into Sandy Creek Pub, last week. You camp in the grassy paddock next door with some farm animals, and enter via a gate. The pub is not far from the Cunningham Highway, near Warwick in Queensland’s Darling Downs. We loved the sign here about patronising the hotel. The site is for patrons only, with a donation for charity and a fee for a shower. But it is great to find this freedom camp here, because the only other options in Warwick, are caravan parks.

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Michelle Gilmore 23 May, 2022
Grande Olde Dumbleyung Inn Free Pubstay
Camping

New WA Pubstay, The Grande Olde Dumbleyung Inn

There’s a brand new Pub Stay nestled in the heart of Western Australia’s Wheatbelt at the Grande Olde Dumbleyung Inn.  Its historic rooms will remind you of bygone days with expansive views from wide balconies.  Located around 230 km south West of Perth, the Inn has received approval from the shire for RV (any kind of campers welcome) camping behind the pub.  They offer delicious pub meals, lunch and dinner 7 days a week.  The area is filled with history and is the home of the famous Lake Dumbleyung where Donald Campbell broke the world speed record on New Years

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Leisa Cooper 29 April, 2022
Curlewis Commercial Hotel
Camping

3 New Pubstays

You’ll find our first free Pubstay around 18 kms south of Gunnedah, NSW just off the Kamilaroi Highway.  The historic Curlewis Commercial Hotel is located on the corner of Goran and Railway Streets.  It offers a country welcome, relaxed atmosphere and a large grassed area for free overnight parking for campers including RVs, caravans and  camper trailers to pull up for the night. Grassed area at the Curlewis Hotel Campers tell us there’s hospitality plus at this Pub Stay.  The friendly owners offer 24 hour toilet access, meals seven nights, showers available, lunch Friday through Sunday with weekend raffles and

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Leisa Cooper 13 April, 2022

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