Sandy & Warren’s place is ideal for visiting Hot Water Beach & being in the vicinity of Tairua.
It’s also immaculately clean and spacious. We appreciated access to beach towels and shovels, as well as Warren’s kind & spot-on advice for getting up early for the morning low tide to dig to the hot water.
The instructions as to the address could be a little more clear, the Airbnb is the same as “Aunty Dawn’s place” so when you see that sign, you have arrived. Once you’re there, it’s very easy to park & unload.
There is a small camping ground at the bottom of the garden past the apartment(s), on the very short walk to the beach. The night we stayed the campers were up quite late playing loud music after about 10/11pm, the friend who slept in the bed closest to the campers is a very easy sleeper but said she expected that would’ve been an issue for most others (particularly if their alarms were also set for 5am) so just something to note!