I am not normally one to write negative reviews, but we did not enjoy our time here. It wasn't anything to do with the house itself but the whole experience was extremely stressful. From the get go, we thought there were 7 beds and there were only 5. We rang up and asked politely if we were mistaken and felt attacked by the host. She was very hostile and argumentative when we asked. There has clearly been a mistake on the Air Bnb app, which is fine we delt with the bed situation, but the reaction was completely unnecessary from the host. Furthermore, we put a wash on after a long day of travelling only to have the washing machine leak everywhere to no fault of ours. Once again, the host came around and was very angry and accusing. This started the whole stay off very stressful, when it should be a relaxing holiday. We have always had amazing reviews and always have a great respect for people's houses and felt upset when we were attacked and questioned for things out of our control. Although the host did apologise for her reaction, this made the whole stay very stressful and we wish we just left and stayed elsewhere.
There were also strange rules like "don't leave heating on overnight or when you leave the house". This was not nice as it was cold and we have young kids.
there were also A LOT of excessive 'rules'. we have stayed at many air bnbs over the world and in New Zealand and never seen one so 'particular'.
I normally hate writing a bad review but this experience really really dampened our stay in Mapua :(
hopefully it was a one off.