This is a nice and stylish place on the outskirts of Kaikoura - easy enough to find as it’s along the main road towards the town. It’s around 5min drive from town. There’s a supermarket and petrol station nearby.
This is a motel, so you’re sharing the area with a few other guests in the lodges next door - but it’s a fairly large room, with all the basic amenities you can want - kettle, hob, oven, microwave.
Communication was good and check in super easy, nice have a key pin on the door is yes dog having to carry a key. We never met the hosts as they host remotely but they responded well.
Only downsides - our room smelt a little of stale smoke - unfortunately this was probably a prior guest breaking the rules but it was a bit smelly. And the other was the parking - it’s really tight parking slots for your car and everyone in all the lodges struggled to get in without hitting their doors - be careful!