They made the travel well. The only thing to be concerned is late check in after 9. Make sure you know what time you are arriving because front desk staff leaves at nine. The best is the space and layout. It felt extremely livable and comfortable.

It's always nerve racking booking online, especially when I need budget accom.

But this ended up being exactly what we needed. Do not book here if your looking for an establiashment that sparkles and shines with modern features. It's an old building. There is plenty of marks on floors and walls.

The room I stayed in was a 2 bedroom with 2 queen beds. There was heaps of space for the children (3 and 1 year olds) to roam and crawl, and plenty of space in the room for a cot (we opened the cupboard doors and it fit nicely half in there).
A full kitchen so we were able to cook all our meals and a short walk to plenty of restaurants and little convience shops if we didn't want to cook.
It had a full sized bath tub for the children and although our dryer was a little dodgy it was very convenient to have laundry facilities.
We could hear people moving around in above apartments but this didn't disturb us too much. There is a small (but a little scary) elevator, which was fabulous with the small kids.
I'd hoped, because it is at the end of queen street we could take a walk but it's very hilly and i wouldn't recommend it as a lesurely stroll.
The location was very convenient to all roads headed out of Auckland, as long as you have a map.
The staff were very friendly and extremely helpful. printing up maps and even gave me some salt for my mashed potato. :-)
Definately no fleas!

This hotel was handy, and it was cheap. However, the rooms and decor are dirty and dated. The rooms have no aircon or anything, so were sweltering.

Check-in lady was rude and being difficult just for the sake of it I think. We had two cars, so asked for two carparks as the carpark was more or less empty. We got a very disgruntled "whatever".

As we were going out for a friends birthday, we had arranged to have people meet us at the hotel and go from there. We were told that NO ONE was to go into the room. So, we snuck friends into the hotel building via the carpark.

On a plus side, the balcony was nice, and the shower powerful.

Good facilities e.g washing machine, tumble dryer etc big beds with electric blankets, spacious but rather dull and sparse. The problem was with fleas in the carpet, lots and lots of fleas, jumping on our feet as soon as we walked on the carpet.