This is a beautiful, spacious house with easy access to Waihi Beach - the photos of the rooms and the views are very accurate. We had a calm and peaceful stay. Claudia was very easily reachable by Airbnb messaging before and during our stay, which was much appreciated. One of the main toilet had a broken flush when we tried to use it and Claudia sent a plumber promptly to fix.

We would definitely recommend this house to others, keeping in mind the following:

1. Linen is not included. This is not uncommon with Airbnb listings in New Zealand (we stayed in a few during our trip) - just be sure to discuss the details beforehand as you don't want to show up and not have any linen on the beds! We paid $100 for the 9 of us to have linen for our two night stay.

2. Also a first for me, the check out process was quite involved. Claudia sent us the details a few days before arrival, after our booking was confirmed. They included requiring us to clean all the bathrooms/toilets, mopping all tiled areas and vacuuming the rest of the house. I feel these should be made known under 'House Rules' in the listing so people know what to expect before committing. We did spend our final morning taking care of the cleaning, which was a bit of a bummer. I can understand these requirements for an extended stay, but for a two night stay, I would have preferred to pay the usual Airbnb cleaning fee rather than do it myself.

3. We couldn't use the pool during our stay. Unfortunately, it was a funny green colour, water was cloudy, with bubbles/debris and a small amount of brown scum on the surface. The pool man came on the final evening of our stay and it was a bit better after he left but not useable. I sent Claudia photos of the water the morning we left. We were disapointed with this as we are not big ocean swimmers but did intend to use the pool during our stay.

4. The house does not have wifi (yet) - it doesn't claim to have wifi, but I didn't realise this until we got to the house. My fault. I did try two nearby cafes: Flat White Cafe, which has amazing views and food but their wifi was down and the ladder leading up to where the modem is located was broken. The Porch - they depend on a Spark NZ Hotspot for wifi and this was not working that day either.