Location
The B&B is located in a quiet and respectable neighbourhood. To be honest we underestimated Christchurch’s size. It was more than 30 minutes with the car to the airport and more than 30 minutes to walk to the city centre. A Countdown supermarket is just around the corner (if you have a description; it’s not that obvious).

Bathroom
I loved the pictures on their website immediately. This is why I booked although there was no room with ensuite bathroom available. Based on the information on the website there are 3 rooms with ensuite bathroom and Queen Room 2 which shares the bathroom with the single room. I thought to share the bathroom with just 1 other person would be okay (We had to drive to the airport the next morning and couldn’t risk a delay caused by a bathroom queue.)
This proved to be wrong. I don’t know how many people shared the bathroom but definitely MORE than just 2 rooms. We were having breakfast with the girl from the single room when other male guests used it. Furthermore, you have to cross a long hallway to reach the bathroom.
The bathroom itself was very spacious. It was a bit difficult to shower without flooding the floor.

The Gingerbread Lodge
The house is really as beautiful as on the pictures with colourful glass windows, great wooden floors and old-fashioned decorations. We shortly met our host Nathan, a young guy, who seemed quite friendly. The Gingerbread Lodge is not like many other B&Bs where retired couples invite guests into their house after the children have moved out. It was more a commercial place where breakfast etc. is managed by an employee. The legendary Miki had an accident, so another girl took her place, and breakfast and all the rest was nothing special at all.

For 120 NZ$ I would have expected a bit more.

This was our first time that we ever stayed in a B&B and we were quite delighted with our experience. The room was well maintained, clean and neat. But it was relatively smaller than expected but that wasn't much of an issue. Nathan and Cindy were good host and we got along pretty well with them. Breakfasts were also great. I would highly recommend this place if you looking for an affordable and neat place to stay in Christchurch.

Located in a quiet tree lined suburban street about five minutes drive from the city centre. There is no sign out the front, but there is a large metallic gingerbread man figure in the front yard which made the B&B easy to recognise. The house itself is quite different from the others in the street.
We were checked in by the owner Nathan who has an open, friendly and helpful manner.
The house was neat, clean and comfortably furnished, with a few minor unfinished details.
We stayed in a large upstairs room with a balcony. The bed was very comfortable, with clean sheets. One wall of the room is a glass in fill of what seems to be a previous open space overlooking the downstairs kitchen. The curtains over this window/wall are inadequate and the light from the kitchen significantly disturbed my sleep. The noise from breakfast preparation and those enjoying and earlier breakfast than ours was also disturbing.
The bathroom was Ok, but there was no fan to clear the air.
Breakfast was good, but the servings of the cooked breakfast of bacon, one egg, tomato and mushrooms I would not call generous.
The friendly young woman who cooked our breakfast gave us some good advice about where to stop for a picnic lunch on our drive north to Kaikoura
The previously mentioned and seemingly legendary Miki not longer works at Gingerbread Lodge and this may be the reason our stay was average. We expected more for the price paid