Name: Pinegrove Cottage
Address: 29 North West Arch, Twizel, Twizel, Twizel, 7901, New Zealand
Rating: 8

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We've been travelling for a month and this beats all the others we've stayed. 

Pros:
- super quiet
- brand new cottages with everything you may need: 2 bedrooms, living space, full kitchen, washer/drier etc 
- air con
- best wifi so far!! (The owner said she upgraded it after the many TA complaints)

Cons:
- outside of the town: a pro for us but you need a car 
- she provides detergent for dishwasher and washing machine, plus soap in the bathroom, you need your own shampoo 
- no daily servicing (not an issue for us) 

Just fabulous.

Best place in NZ so far!

OK - Raeleen asked me to write that.  It is true though that this has the best Wifi of the eight places we've stayed in NZ so far. I did a speed check and (nerd alert) you get 15Mbps download and 0.8Mbps upload. We didn't really care but were puzzled by the reviews, so I asked her.

"We dug a trench" 😊

The other complaints are that the rooms aren't serviced daily (although they are SPOTLESS when you arrive) and that this is a way out of the centre of Twizel (anyone who knows Twizel will probably see that as a positive).

So those are the complaints but this place is great - the apartments are huge, the kitchen is fabulous (we ate in all three nights - we didn't risk the Twizel 4 Square but brought food from Queenstown), and it's all brand new. There is no noise from the adjoining apartment. It has a wet bathroom (that was another complaint - 'the floors get wet': welcome to contemporary bathroom design, darling). It is incredibly light but with effective curtains in the bedrooms and it's got aircon for goodness sakes!

Moreover, the apartments are very stylish - that's not me saying it, that's my Italian wife. A lot of thought has gone into the design and decor here. Little things like the diagonal tiling on the recessed shower area.

We came here to walk and it's a perfect spot to access Lake Ohau and Pukaki. We did a lovely walk around the Pyramid, linking the Darts Bush/Flanagan Pass trail with a couple of other tracks to get a circuit and the next day we walked the Hooker Valley Track. Don't bother with the latter - packed with people on an overcast Tuesday to get to a glacier that looked like it was out of Banksy's Dismaland. Do take some photos looking down the luminous Pukaki Canal at sunset - we got the best shots of the holiday there.

Best WiFi in New Zealand

It was the weekend and it seemed like everything was booked. Drove around and discovered this lovely place. Raeleen has two new units and is freshening up her other two units. She offered us one of the newer units and we settled in before going out for an adventure. The cottage was furnished nicely and it was so quite there, as we like. Raeleen was friendly,  it was a pleasure to meet her. Spent two nights in a comfortable bed. Nice shower and a great washing machine, which we needed. A clothes drying rack was available or a nice clothes line outback. Enjoyed nice dinners there with all that we needed,supplied. A new WiFi was in the works to be hooked up but in the meantime coverage was a bit weak. Such a tranquil nice place, would definitely recommend. 

Stayed in a beautiful new cottage. 

Pros:
Friendly and welcoming host
Comfortable beds
Washing and tumble drier
Clean and reasonably well equipped
Peace and quiet
Easy drive to town centre
45 minute drive to Mount Cook

Cons: Poor wifi
Miniscule TV for size of room
Shower curtain difficult to keep round shower resulting in wet and very slippery floor. 
Ongoing building works to adjacent new units detract from advertised beautiful grounds. 


Pros and cons

I really wanted to love this place because I liked the owner and it sounds like she’s had a tough go of it. But so far, 6 days into our trip to New Zealand, this is the only place that I wouldn’t go back to. Mainly because of two reasons: 1.) no wifi. Technically there is WiFi, but it only worked about 10% of the time. If you’re interested in staying connected while traveling, this might be an issue. 2.) There is no House keeping while you stay. All of the other cottages that we’ve stayed in have a cleaning service like a normal motel, even if it’s the owner doing it. 
I couldn’t recommend because of these two things, but if they don’t bother you, then this place could work for you. 

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