My husband and I stayed for one night in a backpacker room. The whole place is very clean. Spacious kitchen with cooking utensils and grill in the yard. Mr. Snow was a great host. It's like staying at your uncle's place. We felt home the minute we parked our car. To Mr. Snow, thank you for your postcards. We did... More

After a week's work around Auckland and Hamilton, i was ready for a quiet, idyllic spot and Kawhia offers this. The Beach-side S-cape was perfect, with generous and friendly hosts and a fantastic view form a cabin that couldn't be closer to the water. Small but well appointed with a nice deck to sit on too. The town is a... More

After Auckland, Rotorua and Waitomo with their respective i-Sites I wanted to go somewhere off the tourist track. On the map I saw "Kawhia". After an exhilirating hitchhike, doing 90 kilometers an hour in the curves past the bay, I wound up at Kawhia Beachside S-Cape & Harbourview Cottages. And indeed it was off the tourist track and relaxing. I... More

We knew nothing about kAWHIA and had never been there before.After a comfortable three hour drive from Auckland we arrived to be pleasantly welcomed and shown to a two bedroom motel unit. The unit has been very well upgraded. It was spotless and very generously supplied with towels and coffee and the like. The owners went out of their way... More

The owner was a credit to the hospitality industry. Although my wife and I arrived while she was still cleaning and was on her way to have a coffee, we were given a tour of the property so that we could decide for ourselves if we would stay in our tent or one of the cabins or motel units. We... More

We found the town of Kawhia through a review of what to visit while in NZ. After that I started looking in the internet for places to stay in the town, and found Kawhia Beachside S-Cape, and contacted the place. I got a quick response, so there we went for a night before heading to Taupo (where we participated in... More

Kawhia is a magical beach town on the West coast of the North Island. It has an important place in Maoritanga - you can still see the amazing tree where the Tainui tied up their canoe when first migrating to NZ hundreds of years ago. It's a sleepy town - a couple of casual cafes and the best fish and... More

I had booked one of the waterfront studio units at Beachside Escape and therefore when, on arrival, I found they were not available and I had been allocated another unit with not quite such a good view, I was somewhat uncertain about staying here. However the owner had thought the problem through well and the unit was larger, had a... More

thanks again Snow and Bronwyn for another lovely weekend. Loving all the improvements you have made since our last visit.Never get sick of the sensational views here and the peace and quiet. We are off to Europe shortly and I can tell you now that it will be going some to beat this place.Enjoyed sharing stories with you.See you again... More