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17 Mar 2025
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We are a couple with grown up kids and live, along with Ruby our labradoodle, in Meadowbank, central Auckland. This is an ideal location for workawayers who want to be close to the city or the beach with easy access via public transport. Steve and I are a professional couple who work Monday to Friday. We have a warm sunny architecturally designed home with lovely garden surrounds and pool. We welcome workawayers who have experience of painting (windows and doors) and are happy to assist with gardening and maintenance around our home and maybe even walk Ruby at one of our beautiful local parks. depending on the time of year, we have a large double studio for our workawayers. We will feed you well! We welcome people 25 years and older and especially couples. work well with us.
Please do NOT request a workaway experience with us if you are under 25 years old.
If you contact us with a request, please give us 24 hours to get back to you, we are a family home not a business and need to ensure we can make this work for us and for you. Please be honest with us if you are sending out lots of requests at the same time. We understand people are looking at options, however we are a busy family and it is frustrating to try to work out if we can accommodate someone only to be told you have found something else within 24 hours!
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You will be in a lovely home near the city with your own space as well as the option to eat and hang out with us In the evening. We are well seasoned travellers ourselves having travelled the world both as young travellers.
Help
We welcome workawayers who can assist with general household work and maintenance such as cleaning/ washing indoor and outdoor areas, prepping and painting as well as gardening. Our preference is to have workawayers 25 years and older and we welcome couples.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Accommodation
Depending on the time of year, we have a large double bed sitting room. We have a good size home with a couple of living areas inside and outside too. You are welcome to relax wherever works for you!
What else ...
You can explore Auckland, the city of sails, and all it has to offer from our home.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.
Space for parking camper vans
You can park your vehicle in the cul de sac which is safe.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
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Tge communication with Alison and Steve was good. Reqlky friendly nice older couple. I helped them with some indoor and outdoor painting… read more
The communication with Alison was easy, very clear and she was always super responsive.
I really had a great time... I can only recommend staying at Alison!
Alison and Steve are such a lovely couple, we enjoy so much talking with them. It was a perfect first workaway in New Zealand! The house is such a comfortable and lovely place to stay and Alison’s food was so good, varied and balanced.
We were able to help them with the general maintenance… read more
Their home is situated very central (about 30 min by bus to downtown Auckland) and yet it is a very safe and quiet neighborhood.
During the day Alison and Steve worked a lot, while we were doing our gardening and… read more
They welcomed us into their lovely home and made sure we didn't miss anything.
Alison prepared some great meals for us and Steve knew how to accompany them ;-)
We shared good times with Tom.
Little hug to Ruby who is very affectionate.
We were able to organize… read more
Alison is an excellent cook and it was a pleasure to eat with them every night!
The work wasn't too hard, and Steve and Alison make sure that we always have time to visit the city.
Thanks for the two weeks with you! :)
They are really nice and welcoming people.
We really enjoyed walking around with their dog Ruby that is adorable.
The house is pleasant and very well placed, moreover Alison is an excellent cook. We learned many recipes.
Our English was not perfect, and they made us feel comfortable and… read more
Alison and Steve gave me a warm welcome as soon as I arrived.
Their house, located in a nice area, is beautiful, I had a nice large bedroom with a bathroom and the work I had to do every day was varied and enjoyable. The center of Auckland is very close and easily accessible with… read more
We came to Auckland as strangers and feel we truly left as part of the family!
Wonderful people, a beautiful house in a lovely suburb of Auckland and easy and well explained tasks which we were left to get on with unaided! To top it off Alison is a brilliant cook who… read more
Thanks Steve and Alison for your friendly welcome it gives us a good start for our trip in NZ!
