By- og havneudsigt, Tre minutters gang til Ponsonby-butikker, caféer, natteliv

Thank you so much, Brett, we loved having you all and hope we'll see you again soon. Thanks for leaving the house in such good shape, you're welcome back any time :)

We loved having you, Lance, and I'm happy you managed to get out and about despite it all. Also thank you for taking care of my plants, and bringing things in when the winds came, I was very grateful you were there. Please come back soon and bring some better weather with you!

Thank you so much for the review, Frederick, and we're pleased the house met your needs. Hope the rest of your travels went well.

Thank you for being such great guests - we're pleased that you enjoyed your time at the house. It's a great spot if you're busy in the CBD during the day and looking for great places to eat and socialise in the evenings. Please come back, we'd love to have you again.

We’re so happy you enjoyed your time in Auckland and the house, Christine. We loved having you to stay.

Great to have you to stay, and thanks for hope the rest of your travels went well.

Thanks, Heather! It's such a great time of year to be in Auckland and lovely you could spend the holiday season in the sunshine. We very much appreciated the care you took of our home and hope we'll see you back again soon.

Thank you so much, Michael, you were a pleasure to host. I’m pleased you managed to explore the local neighbourhood and that you and your family enjoyed your time at our house. Safe travels, and we hope we’ll see you back again.

Thank you so much, Fiona, for leaving everything so lovely and tidy - and we're so pleased that you enjoyed your stay. It must have been interesting to come back after so many years. A lot has changed in the area, but a lot has stayed the same: even Cafe Cezanne, where we used to eat 25 years ago! Hope we'll see you back :)

Kia Ora, Matthew, and thank you so much for being such wonderful guests. You and your family have been a joy to host and I’ve loved getting to know you in the process. My garden misses you already - I can’t believe what a transformation your TLC made over your time here. We would love to have you and your family back any time. In the words of my neighbours and others who had the pleasure to meeting you during your stay ‘just the loveliest, loveliest people.’ Safe travels and please come back soon!

Hi Gary and co., I am so sorry I haven't responded earlier. I just saw this. We loved having you all, and we're so happy you enjoyed the house. I really appreciated your patience with the glitches we had - I'm just really pleased it all worked out in the end. Please come back soon...and sorry about the Rugby!

Morna, it was such a pleasure to have you and Bill to stay: I knew the house was in great hands, and I was so grateful to Bill for his MacGyver-esque home handyman skills when the storm damaged the garage door. The location is great, isn't it? Not hard to see why Ponsonby/St Mary's Bay are so popular. I hope you managed to get to Mary's, our all time favourite brunch spot. We are so happy you will be coming back next year, by then I might have gotten around to installing actual TV channels - we live our lives on the digital ones, but I know not everybody does. I've been thinking for a while that a BBQ would go very nicely on that middle deck, just outside the kitchen, so I'll put that on the wish-list, too. I'm pleased you made the long haul back home OK, and we really look forward to seeing you both next year,. Cheers Susi

Kathy, we so loved having you and the family, and it was such a relief to have the house in such good hands. Can't say enough about you and your gorgeous family, too. Please come back soon - we will miss you, and the Herne Bay Bakery and Mary's will miss you, too! Safe and happy travels x

Dick, I'm so sorry that I didn't get to respond to your review, I think this was the pre-COVID period and I had property managers over that time. I've only just noticed they didn't respond to your kind words. Thank you very much for being such great guests, I hope we'll see you again soon. Susi

So lovely to have you, Jo. I’m really happy you enjoyed the house - and it’s location - so much. It’s a fantastic spot to explore Auckland from. Hope your long trip home wasn’t too brutal. Take care, and we’d love to see you back again soon.

Thank you so much for the review of the house, and I'm so happy you enjoyed the area. I'm at a loss to understand how the Queen bed lost its sheets - I personally made up all the beds that morning, however I did break a toe just before you arrived and may have meant to go back to that one but got distracted. I'm so sorry that was the case. There were loads of towels in the downstairs cupboard in the hallway, I made sure I left a decent pile and counted them to make sure there were enough - I wish you had called me and I could have directed you right to them. The two Dyson stick vacuum cleaners, one for upstairs and one for down, were left plugged in upstairs by the kitchen where I usually leave them. I was the last person to use them, and I was using them for last minute tidying up to the minute you arrived. I did have to hunt for them when I got home and found them in a downstairs cupboard when I returned, so I wonder if one of your party tucked them away? There was a mop in the upstairs shower and the cleaning cloth up there was still sitting on the vanity where I left it. Again, I am so sorry you didn't get in touch, I'm always more than happy to take calls and could have directed you to those things. I will make sure the locations are added to the guest information that goes to the app for the future - it can be hard to find things in other peoples' houses. I'm pleased you enjoyed the stay, and I hope your cruise went well.

Kia ora kōrua (hello to all of you) Jeff and family, it was so nice to meet you, and your te reo is coming along nicely :) I'm pleased you managed to get some deck-time, it's a great spot for a coffee, wine and a good book. Sometimes I'm out on that top deck til 11pm in summer! You're not the first person to ask for a BBQ (kids have been going on about it for years, too). I'm going to pick one up in the winter sales and pop it just outside the kitchen by the herb 'garden'. It will be all ready and waiting for your next trip. Ka kite anō (see you next time) Susi

Thank you so much for the lovely review - and also for leaving everything in such lovely order. You certainly chose the right time of year to be in Auckland, and the best time to get out and explore the neighbourhood. Ah, the stairs! But just think how many calories get burned on the way up and down. All the more space for another cappuccino and slice of Pav.

Thank you so much for the kind review - and for being such great guests. We loved having you, and hope you were able to make the most of that precious family time. Hope we'll see you again soon!