Shucks, it’s a Hit

Waiheke Island’s The Oyster Inn, “is a charming project that opened late last year, set up by Andrew Glenn and Jonathan Rutherfurd Best,” Simon Farrell-Green writes for Monocle in an article about “How to: open an inn”. ‘“We wanted an environment where you came up the stairs and left the world behind,’ Glenn says. Across a fern-filled atrium they built a private dining room, three airy guestrooms and a small shop selling beachwear. To help make the guests’ stay still more memorable, visitors are collected from the ferry terminal in the Inn’s own vintage yellow-and-white Volkswagen Kombi and presented with a pair of Havaianas in the same signature colours.”