The house is new, spacious and has really cool views. If you are just after the house and don’t mind about the host, privacy or noise then you are good. But don’t expect any of the usual Kiwi hospitality that you normally find in airbnbs.
We were very disappointed thought as the host weren’t very welcoming or friendly. Moreover, the site was under construction - they had a digger going on for most of the time while we were there.
We would have appreciated to be told that they were going to be doing that so we could have chosen to stay in a more relaxing and safer place. We had 2 infants - one of them walking and we couldn’t let them roam free as it was dangerous. And seeing the construction and the noise, not what you want to be listen to when you are on a weekend away. And that person (believed to be the house owner) was only a few metres from our deck and we felt like we had no privacy.
We had stayed at this place last year bit it ended up being $100 more this time. Julie said the cleaning fee had increased due to covid. And although the place was clean we couldn’t understand those $100 extra when there wasn’t any sanitiser, or even a hand soup in the kitchen. We were 4 adults and 2 infants and got only 4 towels in total. Nothing for the toddlers and nothing for our hands. There were two tiny tea towels in the kitchen. Of course don’t expect any tea, coffee, milk, fruit… anything at all.
When we arrived, she gave us the keys but not even a “hello”, “welcome”, “how was your trip”, “how are you” and we realised that we were in the wrong place.
We have travelled around NZ for years and have always experienced amazing Kiwi hospitality in any place we stayed. If that's what you are after, we recommend you look for another place to stay :)