The Bella Vista is excellent value for money airport hotel, which includes free airport pick up and Drop off . The services is excellent the rooms clean and the free continental breakfast an added bonus.

For a one night stop over it would be difficult to provide better value for money than the Bella Vista

Like most Auckland airport motels and hotels, this is transitory accommodation and makes no pretence to be otherwise. Book-in is slick, as is check-out. The airport shuttle is always on time. There is no pretence at friendly customer relations, but efficiency and quick turnaround are paramount. After all, this is a business based on one-night stands, so caveat emptor prevails, and fair enough. All I needed was a clean comfortable room with reliable transport to my ongoing flights, and that is what I got.
The included breakfast was adequate, if a little shambolic, with undisciplined children creating mayhem. An earlier breakfast time would probably have been better.
The evening snack bar is a good innovation - but watch out for the wine prices. Two glasses of red cost more that the meal.
Overall, having sampled several other similar locations I would prefer Bella Vista. Efficient, no nonsense and precise. If you want loving care and ego stroking, go to Novotel!

Good points

Close to airport with free shuttle bus which was prompt, a taxi would cost $40
Beds are comfortable
Rooms and bathroom are large
The staff seem pleasant and polite, we arrived around 1am and they still got us a beer even though the bar was closed.

Bad points
The pool is in the car park...this is not detailed on their website, have uploaded a pic.
The high speed internet (£9.50 24 hours) is slow, very very slow. I had to ask reception to check if they had a problem with connection, they didn’t! There is Wi-Fi in the lobby but we needed the internet to research employment so needed it in our room. It also cut out a number of times so I lost what I was looking at.
The curtains and net curtains in the room are dirty
The aircon in the room didn’t work.
The breakfast room is small and badly organised so feels squashed, the options for food are 3 cereals, bread for toast with some preserves, canned peaches in a bowl and chocolate muffins, not sure which continent this continental breakfast is from but its lacks the ingredients I would associate with a European continental.

Wouldn’t want to come back here.

The Bella Vista Express Hotel was the perfect place to stay after a long overseas journey. While not the fanciest hotel in Auckland, it was clean, comfortable, and more than adequate for catching a few ZZZs with a fantastic location just down the road from the airport. The staff was friendly and helpful, the internet in the lobby was nice to "re-connect" with the world, and the free breakfast was great to wake up to in the morning. Certainly, a great value near the airport!