Fabulous blend of style and comfort, hospitality and privacy. The place (and view of the harbor) is as good as you might be hoping. It served as a great place to explore the plains each day before leaving the coast and heading in (and one snow and mud filled foray into the mountains and still back to Lyttleton for dinner!) Sasha gave us a great welcome and lay of the town, history and sense. And her recs on food and drink, each delivered and we couldn't get to all of them--a budding foodie town. Coffee each am looking over the harbor waking up will always be our 'welcome' to New Zealand, and happily so.