John is very nice and welcoming. :) He welcomed us in the house when we arrived although himself is not living there. Location of the house is good and its about 15mins walk from the city. Taxi costs about 12NZD. The house is located on a hill with a very steep drive way and it really requires some energy to walk back after a long day out. Our room (central -Lake view) and the facilities inside the house are not as good as what we expected. Our room is located on the ground floor and shares a toilet with another room. It also faces the stairs to the 2nd floor and we could hear when people use the stairs. The room is much smaller than it looks in the picture with not much space for luggages at all and more disappointingly the lake view is blocked by trees. It's a 2-storeyed old house with kitchen and living room on the 2nd floor. Overall, i think what we paid (545NZD) too much for what we got.