How do we operate:

Help us to help you find a good English speaking Homestay family
1) First you must carefully read and correctly answer the questions on the “ Homestay Application Form” before submitting to us.
We don’t want to waste your time, our time and the Homestay family’s time:
2) Based on the information you supply us on the “Homestay Application form”, we will look at our information for a Homestay which we think would be best suited for you.                  We will look for the best Homestay we have available.
3) Once we find a suitable Homestay family we will telephone you ( or send you a mobile phone    txt message asking you to telephone us ) and then we will tell you about the family.
4) If you think this family is the ideal family you are looking for, then we will telephone the family and tell them about you.
5) If the family would like to meet you then we will make an appointment, for us to take ( or accompany ) you to meet the family.

NOTE:
We always prefer to meet students first at our office before taking them to meet our Homestay family. Once we meet you we can tell you more about the family, where they live, what their interests are, their occupation, about the buses etc.

How to visit our office:
If you would like to visit our office please telephone us first ( and make an appointment ) as we are often out taking students to visit Homestays.
To visit our office at 123a Exmouth Road, Northcote ( just North of the Harbour Bridge ) in your car follow the yellow highlighted streets marked on our map. You can enlarge ( make larger ) the map, by 'Clicking' your computer mouse on the 'icon' on the left side on the map. You can also print the map if you have a printer.
Or:
You can catch the “Stagecoach” 922 / 921 bus opposite the “Sky Tower” in Victoria Street, West and ask the Bus driver to “let you off the bus at the first bus stop in Exmouth Road, Northcote”. The journey by bus should only take you 7 – 10 minutes from “Sky Tower” to our street and 2 minutes walk from the bus stop to our office.
Outside our office address you will see our mailbox

with our “Auckland Homestays” sign on the side of the mail box.
Walk down the middle driveway to the far end of the drive.

Look for our orange coloured sign at the end of our driveway.
If you get lost and can not find our office address, just stay where you are and telephone us on your mobile phone at: ( 09 ) 480 2064 or Ruth ( 021 ) 161 1268 or Brian ( 021 ) 142 7170, and we will come and pick you up in our car.
If you don’t have a car:
6) We can arrange to pick you up from outside the main entrance into the “Sky City Casino” in Victoria Street West, Auckland City. Stand close to the coffee tables outside on the footpath, beside the main entrance.

• Wait on the footpath and we will drive along-side and quickly pick you up in our car.
• Watch for our car which has a sign “Auckland Homestays” on the car door.
• Please be on time for our appointment outside “Sky City Casino” as we can not park our car whilst we wait for you to arrive.
• Do not bring your friends for the first appointment to meet the Homestay family. The Homestay family only wants to meet the student not all their friends on the first visit.
• Please bring your Passport and our Agent's fee when we first meet you.
• Please refer to Our Agent's fee.

If you do have your own car:

7) We can meet you OUTSIDE the Homestay’s home. We will give you the name of the street where the Homestay family lives.

• Please make sure you do wait outside the Homestay’s house, Do not go inside to meet the family until we arrive and introduce you to the family.
• Please do not bring your friends. This is not a “Tour of Homestays” and the family only wants to meet the student on the first visit.
• Please make sure you bring your Passport and Our Agent's fee.

After you have:

• met the family,
• looked at your room,
• asked any questions you would like to ask ( Please don’t be shy to ask questions ) about the Homestay family, then we will,
• take you back to “Sky City Casino” ( if you don’t have your own car ).

We find that by providing the above service we successfully place 95% of our students with good English speaking Homestay families. We hope we can do the same for you, but you must help us also by carefully reading the above information and correctly completing the “” before submitting it to us.

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