We booked the room at Ruth and Barrys for our first week in NZ after arriving in Auckland. The communication in advance was very good and we got some advice how to reach their place from the Airport. The house, the rooms and everything else was really nice and the both are really awesome as well. We had many nice chats and they helped us a lot with so many issues. Since we bought a campervan to travel in NZ, they offered us to use the tools to build everything. Its a lovely family and we hope to be back before we go back to Germany to spend some there again :-) The best Air Bnb experience we ever had!