Phillipa and Ron were wonderful hosts, truly making me feel at home away from home. I cannot thank them enough - they were extremely accomodating of the demands of my night shift work routine, friendly to be with and respectful. The neighbourhood is truly one of the most pleasant I've been in residential New Zealand and was really quiet, with options to walk in a park just down the road. I highly recommend these good folk. And to cap it all, their lovely (albeit now quite old) cat, Milo, was a little star!