The location is great, with a million dollar view from as soon as you enter the property. It takes your breath away. The pictures online don't do its true beauty justice. The view brings calm and serenity for the beholder. If the weather had been nice, we would have enjoyed breakfast on the patio alas the weather was not in our favour, but it would be fantastic given the chance. The house is a bit dated but nonetheless, it possess antiquity past charms with a homey and loving touch. Although very old (with wallpaper pealing in the bedrooms) it was immaculately clean, not a drop of dust or a cobweb in sight. The beds, heaters and electric blankets were adequate and we had good night sleep despite the weather dropping to a low 4 degrees with snow-storm overnight. There was a variety of DVDs and books for kids which was great for our 3 year old daughter. The TV was so old it had no remote, no HDMI connections and we had to work out how to plug in the DVD player with AVI cords.
The down side was the extremely steep driveway leading down to the garage. Back when the house was built, it was just the way then. But with the rain and the leaves everywhere it made the driveway a slippery death-trap. This is something that needs updating or people will get hurt. One of us slipped and fell walking down it. But the worst was trying to park our hire car in the driveway. It is an extremely narrow entrance, the two cement pillars either side are just dangerous and one is cracked where it has been hit before. When we attempted to reverse into the driveway, our car slid sideways and we almost hit the fence, then when we tried to drive forward, the tyres just started spinning and we were going nowhere. The only option was to keep going down the slippery slope. We managed to just scrape the fence without too much damage, but there went our insurance excess!
WARNING! For anyone that is slightly unsure when parking, this is not the place to stay! We rented a CRV Nissan X-trail with 4x4 and it was almost impossible to get out. If we hadn't been able to lock into 4 wheel drive, we would not have got the car out, except with a tow-truck. We also damaged the antenna, reversing into the garage as the doorway was too low. The next day we just opted to park our car halfway in the driveway and halfway on the footpath. We had to all get out of the car first, except the driver because of the two unnecessary cement pillars. There was no street parking within reasonable distance. Every available legal parking spot was taken, apart from a couple three blocks up, so you just have no choice but to park in the driveway in fear.