we traveled from overseas to tell our mother/mother in law it was time to move to a nursing home due to her dementia. due to covid, this was the earliest we could get here and it was far too late. we spent every hour telling her the same thing, calming her down and then repeating the process. we advised the accommodation place that we had chosen them for the animals as we have many at home and thought this would make an upsetting trip a little easier. on arrival we found out you couldn't access the animals without an appointment - fair enough, but upon trying to make an appt were told there was another accommodation venue on their grounds, which we weren't aware of, and they received priority. the only time we could visit the animals was after they left, which happened to be after our check out time 🤷
2 out if the 4 nights we stayed, the driveway was blocked and had to park further back in the dark (watch for the big ditches) and coming inside the gate to a group of young men swearing and drinking. could be intimidating if I didn't have my husband there.
the accommodation itself is lovely and couldn't ask for more and you can see some cows and an alpaca from the window.
we have had to extend our stay in NZ and whilst the website had availability, we didn't really feel all that welcome and have booked elsewhere for the rest of our stay.
Has made a really awful trip even worse knowing we paid extra to stay there and could have stayed somewhere cheaper and at least saved some money.