Beware of the sofa - see below. Mostly this wee cottage is fine, the communication is friendly and prompt and much was pleasant about the cottage. But the main sofa directly behind the bed were you would watch tv, is incredibly unpleasant, lacking foam or cushioning and there are many patches of extremely hard wood, beams effectively exposed beneath the fabric, it should have been replaced years ago to be fair. While most of the cottage is ok, the sofa really ruined sitting down after a day in akaroa to watch so tv and the tv is too small to try and watch it from sitting on the bed.