Not the best experience due to cleanliness issues, including hairs found in bed linen, an outhouse which had not been cleaned before our arrival even though we had told the owner that we wanted to use it, outdoor spaces which were in need of a deep scrub or refreshed paint job, and a garden which had a broken barbecue and broken (unusable) garden furniture. Meanwhile, we did not sleep well as both bedrooms we used had windows with no covers (no blinds or curtains) allowing the light to stream through after sunrise.
Communication with the host wasn’t the best as we raised these issues and were essentially told that most guests didn’t have issues with what we were raising. However, when the first line of the description for the property is “Clean and elegant”, we believe there should not excuse for any shortfall in cleanliness.
The owner did make an effort to correct the situation by calling out a cleaner on short notice after our first day, however there was barley any difference noticed. We raised this with the owner again and she offered to cut out rental short but we didn’t want to spend our long weekend in Auckland searching for another place and lugging bags around from one accommodation to another, so we just stayed, but we will definitely not return.