Do not stay in winter!!! This house is beautiful and well appointed and I'm sure it's nice in te summer season BUT... the heating & house set up is entirely unsatisfactory for the cold temps they get in Taupo. It came with a gas heater upstairs, one larger oil heater downstairs (as it was a basement it only mildly warmed the room) and they dropped an additional small oil heater off, which had little impact. There is a lot of glass in the home with no curtains/drapes and some blinds we couldn't lower so the cold just continued to radiate in and the heaters couldn't keep up. We had our winter coats on most of the time when we were at the house. When we mentioned the coldness they said we had electric blankets on the bed (great when you are in bed, not so great when you are outside of bed) and then dropped us the additional tiny heater. Thoughtful, but didn't fix the problem.