Come for the view, stay for the hospitality. It's easy to see why Bill is a superhost with his excellent communication before and during our stay. We were made to feel like welcome friends who had been invited down to stay. His home is very well appointed and with those spectacular views! It's close enough to SH1 to be very accessible but with zero light and noise pollution you feel a million miles away. It was very hard to get motivated to get ready to leave while sitting in the lazy boy chair, looking out over Lake Karapiro, reading one of the many nice "coffee table" books Bill has, and enjoying a decent plunger coffee that Bill provided. We've already started planning our next visit down.