We had a really lovely time at Zoe and Stephen's place working remotely for the week. To start, upon inquiry about a second working space, they brought in a desk for us! Amazing and so useful. Upon check out they also let us work in front of the house for a few hours as the cleaner was there which was super helpful. Can't thank them enough for that. House is even nicer than in the listing. Really nice modern design.
The apartment is right below the owner's unit so you can hear their two little dogs scuttling about at times but that was fine for us. No oven but they have an air fryer which we made good use of (along with several cook tops, a BBQ, etc.). It can get hot inside the house but we left the front glass sliding door open during the day and never had to turn on AC.
Views of the Marina are lovely and while you can walk to town if you want it's best to have a car (which they have a parking spot for) to drive over to town and then park and walk around from. We took plenty of advantage of lovely Taupo - swam almost every day, went to hot pools, and more.
Would definitely recommend to others coming through the area!