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We are a family who live on a small lifestyle block 10 minutes drive from Taupo and 5 minutes drive to our beautiful Lake Taupo.
We have lived and travelled a lot overseas with our family and enjoy sharing our home with other global adventurers.
Please only contact us if you are about to arrive in New Zealand or currently travelling in New Zealand. Often our needs can be at short notice so if you need a home stay with limited notice we encourage you to contact us. :)Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You will get to spend time in the beautiful Taupo Region in our lovely home that overlooks Lake Taupo and Mt Ruapehu in the distance. You will also get to assist with our small farm block that includes sheep and chickens and hang out with a real kiwi family
Help
We appreciate help around our property including gardening, cleaning, home maintenance.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Accommodation
We have a room with a queen size bed within our own home.
What else ...
Lake Taupo has so much to keep you busy when you have time off - thermal wonderland, our great lake, hiking, kayaking, mountain biking. fishing, water sports. We are also only an hr away from Mt Ruapehu, and Mt Tongariro.
Centrally located Taupo is a great place to be based to explore in all directions.
Taupo is a small laid back town but with a great vibe because of all the local and international tourists who pop in. We have great shops, restaurants and cafes without the craziness of big cities.A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
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The highlight of my trip was on Saturday when Carl came back as he took me on a helicopter ride and hot pools and good conversations !! It was absolutely… read more
Vilma took some cool photos when we were out working.
The jobs were easy, the meals were delicious, accommodation was superb, wish we could have stayed there more, but maybe in the future.
Thank you for accepting us and hopefully we will see each other ;)
For the ones… read more
Enjoyed conversations and showing Lotte around Taupo. Definitely recommend Lotte.
They were both hard working and did a fantastic job weeding and placing bark on our gardens. Would definitely recommend these two!
Would definitely recommend Ella and Marieke.
Definitely recommend Vivian
Carl is a great guy who was kind enough to help us with our van that has some issues.
We stayed for 3 nights, he took us out waterskiing, showed us his helicopter and enjoyed a great kiwi steak together.
Carl's home is beautiful with the most amazing view we've ever seen!
This was our first… read more
I am sorry for the late feedback. I was living together with Carl and his family for 10 days in the middle of March. We had a great time together, they invited me to celebrate Tobias birthday together with them and they took me to Napier for the Nitro Motor Circus, it was a great experience.
I loved to stay at your place and had the… read more
I did not only saw the Lake Taupo from my lovely room, Carl even took me on a helicopter ride over the Lake, on a boat on the Lake and we even jumped of a cliff into the Lake! Just… read more
We wanted to thank Carl again for all the help in the end and Poppy for being our chauffeur and driving us around :)
Cheers Sara & Marlene
I stayed with Carl for one week in July and I really enjoyed my stay. Thank you very much for giving me the chance to discover your lifestyle, bringing me to different activities and allowing me to fly in the helicopter!
All the best, Quentin.
Although we would have loved Carina to stay longer the time fitted perfectly for the both of us. I was able to pick her up in Tauranga in my car and drop her back in… read more
We enjoyed having her become part of the family during her stay, and enjoyed showing her our Kiwi family life. Anne related well with… read more
Carl and his family were very nice, friendly and generous hosts. Carl likes good and deep chats, he drove me around and showed me not only Taupo and… read more
I wish all the best to you and your family!
Carl and his family are realy nice.
The work wasn't difficult : cleaned the roof, cleaned the garden house and we had the chance to go and help him with the helicopter (thank you again for this)
After work you can do a lot of thing like visit taupo, go for ride with bikes, go do… read more
Julie was a delight to have as part of our family.
She was also hardworking around the house and property doing cleaning, cooking and gardening beyond what was required of her.
She also took the time to get to know each of our kids and played many hours of games… read more
They fitted in easily to our family and were fun to have around.
After assigning jobs for them to do they were great at self managing and just getting them done.
They did a lot of gardening for us as well as helping with the family cooking.
We enjoyed having… read more
She fitted in easily with the family and we had a lot of fun together. She was easy going and interested in getting out and seeing things in the region.
She was also always willing to… read more
She fitted in easily with the family and was always willing to help out with duties around the house.
We would not hesitate in having her back to stay… read more
She fitted in easily with the family and always was willing to help out with… read more
They were both such lovely young ladies, full of fun, and energy and smiles. We totally enjoyed having them in our home and found them to be totally honest, hardworking and trust worthy.
We left them in sole charge of our home and life style block for 2 weeks… read more
They were both such lovely young ladies, full of fun, and energy and smiles. We totally enjoyed having them in our home and found them to be totally honest, hardworking and trust worthy.
We left them in sole charge of our home and life style block for 2 weeks… read more
They are a lovely friendly couple who fitted into our family easily and unobtrusively.
They were both hard working and showed great initiative at helping out around the house.
Both helped out Carl with the helicopter and quickly learnt what was needed to be done and worked very hard.
it… read more
To work with Carl was always fun and we hope to… read more
Carl is always in for a good talk, and he was a great help to inspire us to find out what to do around Taupo, which has SO much… read more
They were both hardworking, being prepared to do a wide range of work around our home and property.
We found them to be totally trustworthy, helpful… read more
They were both hardworking, being prepared to do a wide range of work… read more
We found both girls to be friendly, outgoing and hardworking girls who were happy to do any work around our property and life style block.
We were comfortable enough with them to leave our 2 children with them for a few days and also allow them to drive our vehicles
We would not hesitate to… read more
Don't miss on getting to know this openminded, caring and humurous person and his great family. We had lots of fun working with him and visiting the sights of taupo.
Thank you so… read more
We thoroughly enjoyed having them to stay.
They are hard working adventurous young women who easily fitted in with our family.
Although we couldn't provide great weather they still got out enjoying the sights of our region when they weren't assisting us around the property and with our… read more
We found them to be a fun and friendly young couple. Max enthusiastically used his electrical skills to solve and repair a few problems we had around the house.
We confidently left our home and pets in their capable hands while we went away for the weekend.
We do not… read more
The surroundings, the house, the family are lovely and it's nice to meet such open minded people!
Cheers
Lena & Max
(Ps : the bed is
amazing now!)
They are both extremely hard working assisting with household jobs, childcare, cooking and farm work. We also confidently left our 3 children with them for 1 - 2 nights on two… read more
Everybody was so nice, warmhearted and easy going. They have an amazing place with a beautiful landscape around it. We were looking after the lambs, helping out with the kids and Carls helicopter business.
There for we got so much appreciation!
Carl was… read more
She was extremely hard working assisting with running the household, childcare, cooking and farm work, helicopter work.
She quickly became a valuable member of the family running the household while I ( Sharron) was… read more
She was extremely hard working assisting with household jobs, and farm work.
We had a lot of fun with her has she was actively interested in sharing about her home and chatting with us about New Zealand.
Emma is very mature and… read more
She was hard working assisting with household jobs, cooking and farm work.
We had a lot of fun with her has she was actively interested in sharing about Spain, talking about her travels, and teaching us card games. She is an… read more
I will recomend this workaway with no doubts! Thank you again for everything family!… read more
She was extremely hard working assisting with household jobs, cooking and farm work.
We had a lot of fun with her has she was actively interested in sharing about her home, learning English and teaching us card games.
We have had… read more
Thank you for those two amazing weeks