Well quite an experience really.
The house is spacious which is great, the beds are comfy, we weren't able to light the fire which is a shame as it's winter, there is one heat pump, which heats the lounge but the rest of the house including the beds gets quite cold my partner had to grab extra blankets from other beds (as there were none in the room,) I grabbed extra pillows as I am a pillow fort monster, the oven was quite dirty and the toilet leaked all the time with a low whistle (leaking inlet I suspect) and there was no milk and less amenities that we would expect for the price.
We had friends round for dinner both nights, and with it being the West Coast it rained heavily on Friday night and with us being on holiday we socialised until the early hours in the lounge as the rest of the house was cold. When the rain stopped it was very early, so we got our gear sorted to have a cycling adventure and off we all went.
Our friends slept in no beds, had no showers, maybe used the toilet a couple of times and breathed the air. We tidied up after them and cleaned all the dishes etc, hell we even brought our own water.
We had our holiday, cleaned up as we had left it and departed early. So overall we were left thinking we paid more than we would have liked for what we got compared with the other AirBnBs we have been to in Hokitika.
We then got a heaps of questions about our extra guests and then a demand for more money, some confusing messages and then more and more including many photos from their many security cameras, having answered the first questions, we realised that no answer was going to work unless we paid then, so we declined to have any additional correspondence.
Our friends decided to leave their car parked on the street while they spend the second night in Ross and biked back to Hokitika on Sunday. The hosts didn't like that.
As expected this was escalated to AirBnB and after explaining to them what happened, this matter was taken no further.
We paid for exclusive use of the house for a period of 44 hours, we had friends round for about 8 hours of that. I have no doubt that we will get a shocking review, we leave it up to you to decide.
In summary, we believe there are better options for less, in fact a hotel/motel would offer more for a similar outlay.