The view is unbeatable and the location great if you prefer to be out of the hectic centre of Queenstown.
The house is modern and has all the basics, but a few things were less than ideal if not a bit of a shock.
Probably the biggest surprise is that the house has tenants living in a self-contained ground floor flat. When we arrived the bins were overflowing and weren’t to be collected for another couple of days.
The house is very cold as there’s no floor heating or ducted heat or even an air conditioner. There are tiny bar heaters in the bedrooms which aren’t enough in winter.
The fireplaces are gas-powered which ran out during our stay. This was rectified promptly but be prepared if you’re there in winter, it’s almost certainly going to happen because the fireplace is your only heat source and it was -6degrees while we were there.
All in all it’s a bit of a cheap fit out and a lot of things don’t work, eg the television—there is literally no access to free to air tv (we checked with the host who confirmed this), there were lightbulbs missing, the smoke detector fell off the ceiling as it was attached with sticky tape, the hot water intermittently cuts out which is a nightmare in cold weather.