Alison’s place was a perfect little hidden treasure! Our family (with two young kids) all loved it. The house was a very suitable size, plenty of beds & areas to relax. Waking up to a view of the ocean was incredible! the kitchen is simple yet all we needed. And did I mention the view?!? Wow. Walk out from any part of the house onto your own private balcony looking over a lush tropical garden that frames the beautiful rock pool shore and spanning ocean. Wow!
Walk down through the winding garden path down to your own private beach scattered with rocks and rock pools to go crab and shell searching, and a swim.
Note: if you have kids this place is great, but just be sure they aren’t to little or understand that there is no rails on balcony/verandah, it has about a meter drop off into plants and rocky path. My youngest is 2 and he understood not to go there (& keeping a good eye on him). So we were fine.
If going there in warmer season like us bring some insect repellant if you want to enjoy the verandah as much as possible....which you must do!
Alison was a wonderful host, helping us with many local questions we had and great with kids. Highly recommend Alison’s place! Tropical oasis in far north NZ...amazing!