My husband and I with two kids(6 & 2yrs) stayed at Genie's place for 7 days in Nov 2016. The place is located in a quite and calm neighbour hood with lot of greenary around. We being from singapore we loved the cold weather during our stay. House was kept clean and cozy. Though public transport bus was available at a walkable distance we didnt use it as we had rented a car. Parking was not a problem here. Genie was kind enough to have us use their car porche and parked their car in driveway. Nearest food and shopping centre is at hornsby which is less than 10mins drive. Shops at westfield close by 5.30pm except for the supermarkets and restraunts. There are quite a few indian restaurnts in hornsby which was very convinient. We tried Dosa world and majaa indian restraunt and they both were excellent. Didnt get a chance to try others. We also found an indian grocer in hornsby.
While travelling to city we parked our car at hornsby train station where parking is free and took train to the city. Which worked well for us as we were told finding parking in the city was tough and was also expensive. All in all stay at Genies place was excellent and was very convinient to travel around. Genie is an excellent host she was very helpful in making our stay memorable. Will definetly go back.