The beach-front holiday house has a long history and was substantially modernised in 2000. The sea views are wonderful.

The 4 bedroom house features two double bedrooms with a new king and near new queen high-quality beds and deck access. There are also two bunk rooms with one sleeping 3 and the other sleeping 4 in single bunks (sleeping a total of 11 when full), one newly rennovated bathroom, two toilets, a large open-plan kitchen-dining-lounge area, a large rear deck and barbeque area plus more decks on the front and northern sides. We've restructured the interior layout to maximise open living space and accommodating two families across four smaller bedrooms.

Living area

The living area is expansive with plenty of room for family and entertaining activities.

Congregate around the large native rimu timber family dining table (seats 8-10) for meals inside, or enjoy the evening sun while you eat outside on the large outside table (seats 10-12) on the western deck.

The living area contains two new three-seater and two two-seater sofas, a kent wood-burner fire (firewood supplied), a CD stereo system, a 24inch TV and DVD (we only receive TV One on the TV) and a bookcase loaded with good quality books and magazines.

Kitchen

The new modern kitchen has everything you need including:
• Stove
• Microwave
• Fridge/freezer
• 2nd overflow fridge/freezer
• Dishwasher
• Jug/toaster
• Well stocked pantry (including basic food preparation products such as cooking oil, sauces, variety of teas, coffee, sugar etc)
• Plenty of quality dinnerware, cutlery, glasses etc to cater for 11 or more guests
• A clip-on high chair for babies

A near-new 4 burner hooded gas barbeque is available for outside cooking.

Four Bedrooms

Master Bedroom

Located on the western side, the master bedroom is quiet enabling you to sleep-in peacefully while the kids play in the living room. The new (2009) top of the range king size bed with egyptian cotton sheets plus the gentle sound of the waves breaking on the beach ensures a good nights sleep. Includes electric blankets, his & hers dressers and ranch slider opening onto the western deck. Access to the master bedroom is through the adjascent children’s bunk room.

Double Bedroom

This is a small bedroom located away from the other bedrooms with a near-new (2003) high quality double queen bed. A ranch slider opens onto the northern deck. Relax and nod off to sleep to the sound of gentle surf!

Children's Bunk Room

This room has two sets of modern single bunks accommodating up to 4 people. There is also an old portable cot for babies or toddlers but you'll need to bring your own baby sheets. Access to the master bedroom is through the children's bunk room.

Bedroom 4

This small bedroom has one single bed plus a set of single bunks sleeping up to a total of three.

Bathroom

The recently rennovated bathroom has a large shower, vanity, toilet and heated towel rails. We have a babies-bath that goes into the shower for babies and small toddlers. There is also another separate toilet off the hall. Behind the garage is a private outside hot shower which is great for showering off after swimming. For large groups you will need to stagger showers or queue for the inside shower.

Bed Linen, Kitchen Linen, Towels and Cleaning Service Supplied

Quality bed and kitchen linen is supplied along with a plentiful supply of quality beach and bath towels. The master bedroom includes egyptian cotton sheets. Our cleaning service takes care of cleaning the beach house, laundering supplied linen and towels and remaking the beds at the end of your stay.

Laundry

The laundry is located out of sight and mind in the garage. There you will find a tub with hot and cold water, automatic Fisher & Paykel top loading washing machine and an old tumble-dryer. There's a clothes-line in the back yard.

Decks and outside furniture

The day deck on the eastern and northern sides are bathed in sun during the morning and early afternoon.

The larger afternoon/evening deck on the western side gets the late sun through until sunset. A Large outdoor table seats 10-12 plus integrated seating in the deck gives everyone somewhere comfortable to sit and eat outdoors.

Having decks on three sides of the house means that there’s always somewhere you can get into or out of the sun or away from any wind. Four new and comfortable kwila timber/canvas chairs plus a modern aluminium/canvas lounger and two hardwood reclining deck chairs plus outside coffee tables make for pleasurable outdoors relaxing. A set of plastic outside chairs supplement these if you have a larger group.

Warm in winter with wood fire & other winter heating

Oakura Bay is a great place to get away from it all in the winter time too. The house is fully insulated. The living area is heated by a wood burning fire (firewood supplied), two wall mounted fan heaters plus a 4kw free-standing gas heater. An oil heater warms the bedroom area of the house prior to retiring. Electric blankets warm the double beds, and three single beds. There are plenty of extra blankets available.

Kids and Toys

The beach house and beach is extremely child friendly. Assorted small boys toys, jigsaw puzzles and board games are there for your kids enjoyment. There's also a tree hut of sorts for kids over 6 years (please be careful and use at your own risk!) and outdoor rope swing (made so kids aged 6 and over can swing themselves off the back deck without Mum or Dad having to push them endlessly). For babies and toddlers there's an old portable cot (used for our three kids) and a clip-on high chair. Of course, there's the 100 acre sand pit out the front to amuse kids for hours!

Reading

The book case is overflowing with more recent novels, books of all kinds. Also there is a selection of recent lifestyle magazines for your relaxed browsing.

Kayaks

Three fun sit-on surf kayaks plus a two-person sit-on sea kayak are available for your use along with adult and children’s life jackets. The two-person kayak has room for a dive bottle or your fishing gear. Goat Island is only 200 metres away and is great fun to explore. Assorted boogie-boards are also available for use in the surf we occasionally get.

Views

The sea views from the beach house are simply amazing. This photo is taken 10 metres from the front french doors showing part of the beach view. It's quite mesmerising just relaxing while looking at the views, whether from the front deck or from indoors. Windows in the family room extend over 220 degrees around three walls so that the beach and sea views are fully accessable from indoors. Check out the gallery for some of the views from inside.

The Beach

The beach is only 10 metres from the front door! It's lovely white sand with a very gentle incline into the sea. It's as safe as you could get for small children. Swimming is safe with small waves, no rips or undertow (except waves are large in rare easterly storm conditions) and it only gradually gets deep. The main Oakura road goes past the back of the house and there's a small single lane roadway along the front of the house which is used to access the 7 baches to our north plus locals launching their boats at the end of the bay. It gets little traffic but toddlers need to be accompanied across it to the beach.

"Arrived at night in the half light..."

"...and woke up to ‘wow’! Sun skipping over the blue water and a wide expansive bay flanked by islands and green. A true NZ beach experience." Tom, Liz and Lucy, Auckland

House layout