We loved staying at Kate’s place - a tiny house with super size charm and excellent furnishings and amenities. The neighborhood also has great neighborhood facilities - including a fabulous bakery, haircuttery, and cafe just a couple blocks away. And Kate is a wonderful host - providing tons of extremely useful information about the neighborhood. One very small drawback we discovered about the neighborhood is that, because of it’s central location next to Auckland’s CBD - Parnell tenda to have a lot of traffic during commuting hours ( late afternoon) making it harder to use a car during those hours. However we were able to work around this easily by only going out by car between commuting hours.