Stayed here for two nights with my fiancé recently.
Location: if you are traveling by car then downtown is about a 6-8 minute drive away, there’s also parking on location which is great. Without a car you’re looking at a 40-45 min walk at minimum to get to the beginning of downtown and closer to an hour to some of the major attractions. The area itself is a nice and clean suburban looking place (although it’s texhnically within Christchurch).
Apartment: clean, new appliances, nice decorations and personal touches. I personally found it to be a little too small for a couple with some suitcases (there wasn’t anywhere to put our clothes so we had them open). The bathroom is a nice size and they really tried to do the best with the limited space, even have a microwave that has one burner on top of it. The bed itself felt somewhat small (full size but barely), and there was this gap between the mattress to the frame of the bed that was annoying. Also, one thin pillow per person didn’t seem like enough so I recommend adding more. Also, we stayed at the ground level Studio and they have another unit right above it, we could hear everything that was going on there.
Host: I’ve mostly communicated with Monique prior to arriving to the locafion and mostly with Tony after arriving. Communication was fast and accurate. Only thing I didn’t care for is being asked to possibly leave before our check out time because the next tenants were going to arrive early.
All in all this is a good value