First the good things, excellent location, peaceful with stunning views and lovely walks from the door and also around other nearby lakes. The furnishings were comfortable and Murray was very welcoming.
Not so good was the kitchen. It's described as a full kitchen but it's functionality was questionable. It took forever for the 2 hotplates to heat anything and the tiny benchtop oven was too small to cook anything substantial and also got extremely hot on the outside. It took 2 hours to rustle up a meal that normal takes half that time. With these 2 items on the bench there was very little usable bench space. In the photos of the kitchen it's easy to assume that there's a full sized oven as the tiny bench top one is not shown.
As far as value for money goes it didn't compare with similar properties we stayed in at prime locations before and after Lake Tarawera which all had better quality furnishings/appliances/crockery etc. as well as full cooking facilities. It basically seems to be a bach but without bach prices.