Bethany Nugget Review of Great Aussie Bush Camp
It's time for Google to introduce different rating...
It's time for Google to introduce different rating categories for different things. Over the past few days I have discovered what the Baudelaire children experienced when they lived with Count Olaf. Some of the camp was really a series of unfortunate events. The food was overall okay, it wasn't cuisine you would eat at the Queen's Coronation, yet it wasn't someone's lunch shoved down the sewer and was pulled out a few days later. We had a BBQ of sausages and rissoles for dinner, and we spotted a green, what appeared to be mouldy rissole in the bin. We got little time to eat, at least 5 minutes at dinner. We were hustled, rushed and yelled at to hurry up and finish our food. The snow cones were good though.
Some of the staff were really unprofessional and immature, only being nice to students when the teachers were around. Barking orders like we were in the army, yelling everything and telling us to shut up. When kids went to receive snow cones, some of the staff would be throwing ice at each other and even students, which was frustrating as unwanted ice was unintentionally thrown around (especially in fresh clothes after showering, no good). Yet some of the instructors were really polite, encouraging and got along really well with the students.
I think those challenges on I'm A Celebrity are more hygienic than this camp itself. The bathrooms are an absolute joke, inhabited by every insect in the Amazon, floors are a wreck, mud on every corner of the floor, no toilet paper (clean the inside of the toilets too!). Bathroom renovations are recommended. Holes and broken off parts of the wall everywhere in the bathroom, the toilet doors are REALLY far up, you can nearly see the panties of the person in the cubicle.
Flies everywhere in the dining room, all of your food, at the salad bar, probably in the kitchen too. At breakfast, I went to collect cereal to find old food on the bowls, including hardened corn flake bits from past use. Tables are really close together, barely accessible, and you're obligated to push in your chairs in sync, or yet again, we'll be yelled at and made to do it again. We stayed in tiny tents, no ventilation or lighting. We woke up with condensation on the roof, and after being in it for about 10 seconds, it was like a heat wave in the Sahara Dessert. We slept on gym mats, and there were no ladders to get to the top (it wasn't hard to get to the top, but can be safety hazard for both smaller and larger people).
I have to commend them on the quality of the activities, which I was impressed with. The mud run is a must-do, you can slide down, swing, crawl and balance on obstacles. Not being a fan of heights, I thoroughly enjoyed the high ropes, especially the flying foxes that come with it. Archery was pretty fun, and the commando at night was definitely the best part. Canoeing was great, just very tiring, but that's what it's about. Best of luck and happy Kumbaya singing to all those who stay here in the future!
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