The new leaseholders of the Wanaka Lakeview Holiday Park, in Brownston St, Wanaka, are in the ''hurry up and wait'' phase of a major upgrade.
Aggie Hofsteenge and Rudi Sanders are planning to replace the park's central services building with a new $1.5 million facility.
Ms Hofsteenge told the Otago Daily Times this week while it had been hoped to have the building finished by Christmas, design work and planning permission timelines meant a start on the project had been pushed back until after Easter.
''We will make sure we have everything in place to get the wrecking ball in on the day after the school holidays finish at Easter.''
The new building will be on the same site as the old one.
Fitting the building project around the requirements of campers was ''a bit tricky'', Ms Hofsteenge said.
''If we have all the boxes ticked after the Easter holidays, we might even be able to have it up and running before winter.''
As well as providing a modern kitchen, showers, toilets and paraplegic facilities, the new building was likely to include a sauna and spa.
Heat-recovery options were also being looked at to make the building more economical to run.
While planning for the new building continued, a $150,000 upgrade of the park's smaller ablutions block was under way.
New gardens were also being established and many of the park's mature Douglas fir trees were being removed.
Mr Sanders said the trees would be cut down progressively over the next few years, and the stumps ground and more suitable species planted.
The couple are two of four shareholders of CCR Ltd which last year took up a 25-year lease to run the Queenstown Lakeview Holiday Park, Arrowtown Born of Gold Holiday Park, Wanaka Lakeview Holiday Park, Albert Town camping ground and Glendhu Bay Lakeside Holiday Park.
They are all owned by the Queenstown Lakes District Council.
Mr Sanders said the company planned to put most of its earnings for the first five years into upgrading facilities at Wanaka and Glendhu Bay.
