Location is great, easy access to the walking path, lake front and downtown Taupo.
The place was clean and tidy.
For several reasons I wouldn't recommend this to people travelling with small children. There is a lot of stairs from the garage up two levels to the bedrooms. The washer and dryer mentioned is an all in one unit and painfully slow, a load would run 6 hours and still come out wet. What I would call the children's bedroom with 2 single beds has an enormous open skylight over the beds. Not great in an NZ summer where the sun sets so late. The exhaust fan in the bathroom that opens onto both bedrooms is very loud.
The pool so prominently displayed in the listing was empty for maintenance. Only effort to let us know was a single line in a wall of check in/house instructions (which I missed beforehand). When I brought this up with the host she rudely told me that people don't come to Taupo for the swimming pool. Swimming mad kids left very disappointed.