Apartement is a good stopover place, if you want to go further from New Plymouth. It is in the Merrielands which is up the hill, so not good for walking to the city, but great if you want to be off to Mt Taranaki or further south quickly. Would stay agagin, but all the windows could use some mosquito nets, because it gets hit in the building and was afraid to leave the windows open because of the bugs.