My wife and I really enjoyed staying in the cottage - surrounded by fields…. Three chickens hanging around the cottage (one old girl roosting on a chair on the deck each night). Be aware of chicken leavings on the deck, etc. (accumulating AFTER we arrived)…. enjoyed interacting with and feeding the sheep & alpaca…. cool that Angela leaves food for the animals in labeled Tupperware containers, if you care to feed them… which we did. We both enjoyed putting some nice hot water in the two outside tubs & gazing at the Milky Way for a while one night. Only a couple of miles outside of Twizel… some good restaurant choices there.