Incredible outdoor facilities with a lovely spa (although it does take a very long time to heat up), a sand pit for the kids, two great grassy areas covered with really nice grass, an outdoor dining table, lovely wooden decking and comfy outdoor couches to sit on with a nice pond and running waterfall as well as an outdoor bath. There were also some toys for kids inside and outside including trucks, puzzles and buckets and spades for the sandpit.
Inside there are 3 bedrooms (2 downstairs and 1 upstairs), a bathroom and a large main living area with an amazing comfy couch, a lovely high ceiling and lots of windows to let heaps of natural light in. The kitchen is nice and new and modern with all the amenities that you could want including a fridge with an ice maker which was great for cold drinks in the warm weather. There were also plenty of fans and aircon to help keep the rooms cool if needed.
The beds were OK but not the most amazingly comfortable beds to sleep in but the host did provide us with a portacot for our little one which was very helpful. The bathroom is a quite old and not the nicest and the shower has pretty poor water pressure. Additionally hot water was not available all the time: only between the hours of 5-10am and 4-10pm and while the host said that they could be contacted to change this it seemed like if they had set it up like this they didn’t really want it to be changed and it is really difficult to know in advance if or when you would want a hot shower or bath outside of these times as on holidays things are not necessarily planned all the time and happen spontaneously so we ended up having a couple of cold showers which was less than ideal. And for $290 a night I feel like hot water should be available all the time. WiFi was available but in the guestbook it said an extra charge of $50 would be incurred if you used too much but did not specify what too much was or how to monitor it which is very unclear and ambiguous and left us uncertain about how much we could use the WiFi.
One final note of concern is the fact that the outside of the house is absolutely surrounded by security cameras covering almost every side and angle of the outside of the house. Including one which could potentially see the outside bath tub. No mention was made of these cameras in the house manual and they left me feeling a little bit concerned and uncomfortable: was the area that the house was in particularly unsafe and that was why there were so many cameras? Were the cameras recording all the time? Who had access to the cameras and who was looking at the feed from the cameras?