Bay of Plenty Times
  • Bay of Plenty Times home
  • Latest news
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Property
  • Sport
  • Video
  • Death notices
  • Classifieds

Subscriptions

  • Herald Premium
  • Viva Premium
  • The Listener
  • BusinessDesk

Sections

  • Latest news
  • On The Up
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Property
    • All Property
    • Residential property listings
  • Rural
    • All Rural
    • Dairy farming
    • Sheep & beef farming
    • Horticulture
    • Animal health
    • Rural business
    • Rural life
    • Rural technology
  • Sport

Locations

  • Coromandel & Hauraki
  • Katikati
  • Tauranga
  • Mount Maunganui
  • Pāpāmoa
  • Te Puke
  • Whakatāne
  • Rotorua

Media

  • Video
  • Photo galleries
  • Today's Paper - E-Editions
  • Photo sales
  • Classifieds

Weather

  • Thames
  • Tauranga
  • Whakatāne
  • Rotorua

NZME Network

  • Advertise with NZME
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • BusinessDesk
  • Newstalk ZB
  • Sunlive
  • ZM
  • The Hits
  • Coast
  • Radio Hauraki
  • The Alternative Commentary Collective
  • Gold
  • Flava
  • iHeart Radio
  • Hokonui
  • Radio Wanaka
  • iHeartCountry New Zealand
  • Restaurant Hub
  • NZME Events

SubscribeSign In

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Home / Bay of Plenty Times

Buyer with naked ambition wanted

Sam Boyer
Bay of Plenty Times·
10 Jun, 2012 10:22 PM3 mins to read

Subscribe to listen

Access to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.
Already a subscriber?  

Listening to articles is free for open-access content—explore other articles or learn more about text-to-speech.
‌
Save
    Share this article

For sale for $1.9million: Holiday park on 5.7ha with on-site motel, mini-golf and three-bedroom manager's home.

The catch? It's a clothing-free zone.

The Katikati Naturist Park is on the market after more than 16 years of business, but the sellers are making sure the bare essentials remain on site.

Kevin and Joan Sampson have decided to sell the business they opened in 1996. Any sale, however, would be based on a guarantee the property remained a nudist haven for at least another decade, Mr Sampson said.

"When the sale goes through we'll put a memorandum of encumbrance so it has to stay as a naturist park for 10 years.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

"There's been interest all right. [But] it has to be a naturist [who buys it] because only a naturist would handle the nuisances of operating a facility like this," he said.

The 5.7-hectare property includes a motel, three chalets, a recreation room, two ablution blocks and four kitchen cabins. Additional facilities include a pool, two spas, a mini-golf course, a petanque court and trampolines.

The Katikati Naturist Park is the only nudist park in the North Island and one of only two in the country.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

"We're probably the best well-known in the country," Mr Sampson said.

He added the park was also well regarded in the tourist industry.

"There's thousands of commercial naturist parks around the world. As a market, it's so big around the world. [And] we've seen surveys that show about 20 per cent of New Zealanders have tried it or would like to try it.

"We're asking $1.9million, and our profits fully support that price," Mr Sampson said.

The park records 16,000 paying visitor nights per year.

Katch Katikati promotions manager Jacqui Knight said that while the camp was not for everybody, it had proven to be a popular attraction. "It's quite unique to the area. I think it's a great asset. It's a beautiful camping ground and the facilities are great."

Pat Selzer, customer service co-ordinator for the Katikati Information Centre, said visitors to the region would stop to check out the camping ground, and often stay.

"In terms of us recommending somewhere that's a park, there's not much here. It's somewhere we always recommend ... [and] sometimes people will come back and say thank you for recommending it," she said.

Petrina Page, from Tourism Bay of Plenty, said the park was a great example of holiday park management.

"Good quality, well-managed accommodation facilities are an essential component of the Bay of Plenty's visitor industry and Katikati Naturist Park is a great example of this," she said.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Mrs Sampson said it would be "a sad day" when they sold the park, but the couple wanted to move on.

Save
    Share this article

Latest from Bay of Plenty Times

Bay of Plenty Times

Swims, gelato and hot tempers in the carpark: How the Bay's faring in the heat

08 Jan 02:47 AM
Bay of Plenty Times

World cross country test: Rotorua running star to chase glory in Florida

08 Jan 02:00 AM
Bay of Plenty Times

NZ's hottest day, wettest and sunniest centre: 2025 weather wrap for BoP

08 Jan 01:03 AM

Sponsored

The Bay’s secret advantage

07 Dec 09:54 PM
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Latest from Bay of Plenty Times

Swims, gelato and hot tempers in the carpark: How the Bay's faring in the heat
Bay of Plenty Times

Swims, gelato and hot tempers in the carpark: How the Bay's faring in the heat

With Tauranga forecast to hit 30C this weekend, crowds are flocking to the beach.

08 Jan 02:47 AM
World cross country test: Rotorua running star to chase glory in Florida
Bay of Plenty Times

World cross country test: Rotorua running star to chase glory in Florida

08 Jan 02:00 AM
NZ's hottest day, wettest and sunniest centre: 2025 weather wrap for BoP
Bay of Plenty Times

NZ's hottest day, wettest and sunniest centre: 2025 weather wrap for BoP

08 Jan 01:03 AM


The Bay’s secret advantage
Sponsored

The Bay’s secret advantage

07 Dec 09:54 PM
NZ Herald
  • About NZ Herald
  • Meet the journalists
  • Newsletters
  • Classifieds
  • Help & support
  • Contact us
  • House rules
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of use
  • Competition terms & conditions
  • Our use of AI
Subscriber Services
  • Bay of Plenty Times e-edition
  • Manage your print subscription
  • Manage your digital subscription
  • Subscribe to Herald Premium
  • Subscribe to the Bay of Plenty Times
  • Gift a subscription
  • Subscriber FAQs
  • Subscription terms & conditions
  • Promotions and subscriber benefits
NZME Network
  • Bay of Plenty Times
  • The New Zealand Herald
  • The Northland Age
  • The Northern Advocate
  • Waikato Herald
  • Rotorua Daily Post
  • Hawke's Bay Today
  • Whanganui Chronicle
  • Viva
  • NZ Listener
  • Newstalk ZB
  • BusinessDesk
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • iHeart Radio
  • Restaurant Hub
NZME
  • About NZME
  • NZME careers
  • Advertise with NZME
  • Digital self-service advertising
  • Book your classified ad
  • Photo sales
  • NZME Events
  • © Copyright 2026 NZME Publishing Limited
TOP