Name: Housekeeping Camp
Address: 9005 Southside Drive, Yosemite-Nationalpark, California 95389, Yosemite National Park, Yosemite National Park, Yosemite National Park, 95389, United States of America
Rating: 8

24-hour reception

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Parking

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LeConte Memorial Lodge

Shadow of the Giants Trail

Ahwahnee Meadow

Nature Center at Happy Isles

The Ahwahnee

Yosemite Mountaineering School

Ansel Adams Gallery

Yosemite Valley Chapel

Cook's Meadow

Yosemite Museum

Housekeeping Camp

Yosemite National Park

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wired-internet-access

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mini-bar

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kitchen

Our Housekeeping is diligently looked after by May and Yui. Happy and obliging and promptly address anything we require. Even though they speak little English they figure out our requests. Room is always fresh and clean when they leave.  Thank you May and Yui. Helen and Bruce.

Housekeeping

We recently had a group staying at the Housekeeping Campsite. It was wonderful. We had a site that was facing the river beach and the Yosemite Falls. Could not have asked for a nicer setting. Just want to give a huge shout out to our camp host Patrick. He was awesome!!!! Made sure that we were following all the rules but in such a nice and friendly manner. He was , really, one of the highlights of our stay. Please make sure he knows!!! Thank you, Yosemite.....you never fail!

Nothing to Complain about!!!

Comfy stay in the Valley. Gas heated tent with power outlet. Clean blankets, sheets and pillows. Wood floors. Canvas tents with plenty of head room. No food allowed inside.9pm quiet hours. Metal Locker outside tent for personals, bring your own lock. You fet lock on your door of tent. Cafeteria style kitchen for breakfast. Small Bar, Small Pizza place. amd Communal game room with wifi. Showers with towels and flush toilets. NO worries and fun times for all ages.

Tent camping

This is the in-between for serious campers and mild campers. Bring your own sheets and sleeping bags to put on the provided bed and bunk bed. Bring your own cooking supplies. For a non-tent campsite it’s great to be able to cook and have a campfire. It’s not luxurious but that’s not the point. It’s the location - inside and on The Valley floor. They have shower facilities and I’d argue with limited capacity due to covid it was nicer with less crowds.

Repeat guests know Housekeeping Camp is amazing

Housekeeping camp is a mixed bag. It's the best of both  worlds: lodging and camping. But it's neglected.  Needs upgrades and upkeep. There's not even hot water to wash your hands in the bathroom. Yes, it's camping, but it costs over $100/night! I'd try it again, but but expect much. 

Great concept, but need improvement. 

If you’re the kind of person who thinks “it’s early/late, I should be quiet because other people might want to be sleeping”— this is not the place for you. You’re too considerate of others, and you’ll be shocked and appalled by the lack of consideration other human beings have. This place is LOUD LOUD LOUD. Even on a Wednesday night in mid-September after kids are back in school. I can’t imagine how noisy it would be on a weekend or in the summer. 

People are up shouting and banging stuff around and setting off car alarms and talking super loud until at least midnight…it quiets down for a few hours, and then the super early people start banging around and yelling and starting their beefy trucks around 4:30am. “Quiet hours” mean that at least people turn off their blaring music but that’s it. (And I doubt that’s enforced? Maybe it was just luck when I was there.) 

There’s two kinds of folks- people who enjoy the quiet of nature and who speak and act quietly to experience it. And then there’s people who think nature would be improved by boom boxes and shrieking and for some reason speaking super loudly because there’s no walls and I gotta make sure you can hear me!! If you’re the former: don’t stay here. It’s bad. And remember you share a “wall” with another tent, and your roof and other 3 walls are just vinyl. You can hear EVERYTHING from EVERYONE. 

But- if you don’t have a problem with noise (or if you are a noisy person), it’s charmingly rustic and feels like summer camp. The riverfront tents have lovely views, the bunk beds are more comfortable than a half-inflated air mattress at least, there’s a fire pit that you’re allowed to use for a few hours in the evenings, and while there’s no privacy whatsoever at least you can bring things to hang for visual barriers. The squirrels and jays are very bold, don’t turn your back on snacks for a minute!

If you can deal with tons of noise (or you are noisy): you’ll love it.

It’s is noisy. So noisy. My friend and I have been coming constantly for the past ten years. Normally we love it. This year we had a higher ground river unit, we’re told our reservation there was canceled via robocall, 3 days into our stay, moved into an inland spot, and found that the water never rose higher than the nights we were at our original unit. Our new unit was in the middle of a reunion where people were screaming and yelling well into the night, despite rare passive reminders of quiet hours from staff. Today we’re at the beach, surrounded by another reunion who have taken over the beach and vacated river units, and screaming and blasting their stereo. You will not find peace here anymore. We used to love Housekeeping, and love the tranquility the park normally provides, and guests used to be considerate of others, but all of that is gone and quiet hours & noise levels are not really enforced. 

Noisy

Housekeeping camp has been our go to for many years, we usually go with multiple families.  This year, I took my son and his friend - we had a river reservation.  We were assigned a standard unit instead, and were told that most of the riverview spots were flooded.  As we explored the following day, we noticed that actually there were many riverside spots, many of them open..   It rained heavily that day, and our patio was flooded..   I asked the registration staff if we could move to another unit.   I provided them with numbers of units that were open -and clean -  they told me that they were reserved, even though supposedly specific sites are not reserved.   They also said that they would have some staff come clean up our patio, dig out a drain, etc.   So, the spots they said were reserved stayed open, and although I went back multiple times, no one ever came to clean out our spot.   The registration clerk was rude, and said "blame it on Arizona."  Maybe the reservations go through Arizona?  When I tried to find out more, she literally turned away from me and would not talk to me.  I was being very polite.   
We had a lovely time, and I did not mention to the kids what had transpired, but for me it was disappointing that there were all these river spots open, and we were not allowed to move even though we were flooded!  Poor customer service.  I understand they are probably overworked, but some common courtesy and a bit of empathy would have made the difference.

poor customer service

This was our fourth stay at Housekeeping Camp.  The location is excellent. We like the option of cooking our own food. Not pitching a tent is a plus, too. I always struggle a bit with the noise level in the evenings. Loud music and lots of yelling.  Not peaceful for sure.  The pluses out weigh the minuses so I’m sure we’ll return.

September visit

The location and the tent cabins were great, but the bathrooms were a DISASTER.  The bathrooms were in disrepair, were dirty, not cleaned and stocked.  Shame on Aramark for cutting corners to save a buck.  

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