It's a wonderful experience for my family to stay at Ocean View Old School apartment. We are pleasantly surprised how fun our stay was for our kids. The accommodation was converted from an old, decommissioned school. Our hosts, Nicky, Michael and their two children live in half of the wing, and the apartment, which contains two bedrooms: one with a queen size bed, and the other with four twin size beds, was perfect for our family of five.

But it's the amenities that made this place special for us. First of all, the back of the building has a huge lawn adjacent to farm with a white miniature white pony and a herd of alpacas. Image how surprised my daughter was when she saw the white pony and fed her with apples. There's a pond with a padding of ducks. And there is a tennis court which my son played on and loved it. But our kids spent most of their time playing with a warren of cute bunnies. It just happened that mommy bunny just delivered 9 babies, and the babies were still two weeks away from being weaned and given to other good homes. Nick and her daughter were nice enough to let our kids hold and play with those cute bunnies. It's a wonderful experience for our kids.

Ocean View does indeed have a view for the ocean as it sits on top of a gentle hill top over looking at the beach which was just 5 minutes walk away. The beach is one of the best white sand beach I have seen, rival the white sand beaches on Kauai Island.

Overall, we are very happy with our stay and hope we can come back the next time we visit New Zealand.