The place is clean, spacious, tastefully decorated and well equipped. It is handy to town – 10 minutes walking to the centre of New Plymouth
Unfortunately it was really difficult to get in. The door jams and the owners are aware of it. And they insist that you persist with it - We would have thought they would have fixed it. We were there for a week and most times the locking mechanism didn't work for the first 2 or 3 times. We had to try as many as seven or eight times to get into the place.
There is also a very heavy sliding gate to get into the courtyard where the front door is. It is really difficult to open and cumbersome. So probably not appropriate for elderly people
There is supposed to be parking on site – but when we checked it was occupied by someone else so we parked on the street which seemed safe.
The place is very noisy – a malfunctioning smoke alarm in the shop underneath annoyed us and was really audible in our space . There is obviously no soundproofing between the shop below and the unit. It made me concerned about fire rating – especially seeing the smoke alarm below had to be disconnected . We had to go down to the shop and asked them to disconnect it. Apparently it had been doing it for some time.
Heavy traffic starts thundering past the place from 4.30 in the morning and you can feel the large trucks shaking the place even in bed. Do not expect a sleep in