I have mixed feelings about this place because we booked for two nights but stayed only one night. It does have some good points but...
Good: Location to Henderson Bay, 5 min to amazing beach which is so so so nice.
Nick is really good, come to say hello and explain about the place, even said we can have vegitables from his vegi garden.
Deck area is big enough for 9 of us to hang and enjoy our evening. Nick said there were mosquitoes and night insects but we brought citronella candels and bracelets so were fine to sit there till late. Kitchen well equited and plenty of fridge space.
It is only 50-60min to Cape Reinga. Great for a big family or friends.
Bad: There were about 10 beds which was great but 5 of bed sheets had very strange old stains and freshish looking stanis which made us feel like we could not really sleep there. Our children slept with their clothes on with our own towels underneath. Some of us slept on sofa. One bed in old part of house had ants crawling over. We found a linen cupboard but saw some mouse droping so did not feel like using sheets from there. It was disappointing because their list had "enhanced clean" but did not feel like they went extra steps for their bedding which is one of most important part of airbnb. We left next day becuse we did not want to sleep there for second night.
Nick did say if we called him, he would have changed the linen but after finding linen cupboard we did not feel like calling him was going to change much of how we felt about bedding situation.
There is not much nice places to stay as a big group if you want to travel around this place so we were really looking forward to it specially with lots of good reviews from previous reviews.
I think if they change cleaness of bedding it would be a good place to stay. Old part of house with two bedrooms is not as nice but okay.