Denis is very friendly, welcoming and helpful.
This appartment is on a great location: super close to big grassy play/picknick area with playground, right next to a wonderful estuary, long wide beach, dunes with foresty mtb tracks and walking tracks. We enjoyed all that a lot!
Some cool cafes and art shops are
at a five minute drive along the highway.
Rangiora and Kaiapoi at a fifteen min drive, very convenient.
The appartment suited us (me, partner, two toddlers) well.
Nice toy/book collection for the kids, expansive interesting book collection for adults too (nz birds, biography of sir edmund hilary, tom clancy collection etc).
Spacious grassy garden and covered outside sitting area for our private use.
Bedrooms and linen comfortable and clean.
Bathroom, shower and sink good quality. Some soap etc present for us too use, nice.
Kitchen and equipment both quite basic which is fine depending on your needs and cooking style/enthusiasm. For our small family staying ten days and me loving to cook, the cooking options were a bit too limited maybe. I would also have appreciated a (dinner) table and chairs to sit and eat at. Instead we enjoyed our meals sitting on the couch which worked ok.