Karen’s Cormandel Central Cottage was a wonderful find.
The cottage had a new, sparkling clean interior: new kitchen, bathroom (with jacuzzi bathtub!), attractive bedroom, private sunny patio, attractive furnishings, air conditioning/ heat and ceramic tile and carpeted floors.
It was super, even better than the photos advertised.
Karen met us and was very helpful and friendly.
The surprise bonuses were:
- the super convenient location in a historic town within walking distance of the water and lovely hiking trails.
- top flight restaurants (on both sides of the cottage).
The Uma Restaurant was 20 feet to the left. They packed fresh tasty sandwiches, drinks and desserts for our day tour to Cathedral Cove and Hot Water Beach. Their dinners were fresh, well prepared and delicious. A young lady even delivered to our door an iced coffee that we had forgotten!
The Pepper Tree Restaurant was about
100 yards to the right, and rivaled any great restaurant in Auckland for quality, freshness and taste.
Other restaurants were good as well!
We were very well fed and accommodated in this tiny historic town.
We traveled by ferry and taxi/ Uber/ shuttle (Cormandel Adventures) everywhere, and found the beautiful historic New Zealand that we had hoped to see.
If you are searching for big city life, this is not it.
If you want a lovely cottage with fine fresh food and friendly people right outside the door, and hiking and scenic oceanside walks 2 blocks away, this is it.
We highly recommend this wonderful historic town and cottage.
Kathleen