Unfortunately we should have read the reviews on Facebook for ‘Whacky Stays Kaikoura’ which this cottage is part of. The continental breakfast included, amongst other things: a hunk of butter that was inexplicably sitting in a pool of water in a dish, and a loaf of bread whose best before date was the morning after our arrival (therefore out of date for our first ‘breakfast’). The ‘wood’ provided for the wood heater was: pinecones and more pinecones. The possibility that extra costs might be incurred by you the guest are mentioned way more frequently than felt comfortable, leading to a foreboding sense of a pedantic attitude with money. The host did not seem welcoming or happy to have us stay, which is a feeling echoed by some of the reviews we’ve read over on Facebook since we fled the place after only a night.