Avalon Dream is a dream location if you like or need to be walking distance from shops, cafes and the surf beach. We stayed 5 weeks and were a walk away from our personal local world for this visit — our grandchildren in particular — so we could visit the community library, playground and football field in a heartbeat (and the ice cream and coffee shops, French bakery too). Avalon town is the closest we’ve come to an Italian piazza with the locals constantly in casual congregation. It’s really lovely. Jan has created a haven over her Avalon lifetime and the apartment construction in her roof cavity is inspired — after the entry steps, living is on one level. Jan left us to our own devices having considered an extraordinary array of practical items for us to use during our stay from cleaning items to simple pantry supplies like salt and pepper. We could cook, wash and dry our clothes and sheets with her contemporary equipment and relax in a huge and generous living area alongside the bedrooms and the brilliant bathroom many reviewers have already mentioned. The apartment outlook is full of trees and colour from her back garden. Hitting the big city from a rural home, we were particularly relieved to feel at home with this sense of nature lingering in our daily eyeline. Slept well and felt very comfortable in our home away from home.