Canvas Quarters offers travellers on the Rail Trail unique safari-style accommodation that's family-friendly and inexpensive. Canvas Quarters has eight family-size two room tents set up with comfy domestic beds and bunks dressed with fresh linen and pillows & duvets . Each tent is carpeted, has solar lighting and a shaded porch area with table and chairs.
The 'camp kitchen' is beneath a large gazebo – “alfresco” cooking on gas barbecues. The kitchen is equipped with a refrigerator, a microwave, pots, pans, utensils, crockery, tea and coffee making facilities, picnic tables and chairs.
The Bathroom block is a short walk from the tents. The showers are gas heated for constant hot water. Amenities include a disabled/family bathroom; a women’s bathroom with 2 showers 2 toilets and a laundry tub! The men’s bathroom has two showers, 1 toilet & a urinal.
All the “grey water” from the showers is re-cycled to the trees & shrubs that have been planted around the property.
On the grounds of Canvas Quarters is the 1940s Ranfurly Engine Shed that now houses a flat for hosts Roy and Ali. Reception is in Ali's studio where she creates handmade sterling silver jewellery.
On DOC land next door is Ranfurly's historic locomotive turntable for what was the main change-over station on the Otago Central Railway.
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