Steve Boyd has lived around the world, but he sings Wanganui's praises, especially Castlecliff which he said was the best place to live.
The Castlecliff Seaside Holiday Park was booked out for Christmas with campers and holidaymakers who stayed in the little huts.
But Mr Boyd had seen a 45
per cent downturn in European travellers, thanks to the troubled European economy, through our winter months.
Mr Boyd has managed his "bucket-list job" at the holiday park for the past three years but is heading to Christchurch in three months' time to return to his electrical engineering trade.
Wanganui is a place of opportunity and the best central location in New Zealand, he says, but again wondered why Horizons did not operate buses to transport the visitors in the city to the motorbikes and jetsprints.