Sarah, who manages the apartment for Sophie, is wonderful. She and her son, Elvis, met me at the apartment (a 15 minute cab ride from the train station), showed me around, and gave me the keys.
The apartment is very nice, has a full kitchen, lots of big windows, and is only a block from Cuba Street, and about a 10 minute walk from Te Papa Museum - very central. 2 things the apartment doesn't have are wifi and a/c. By walking a block to Cuba St. the wifi problem is taken care of, but the lack of a/c means the large windows have to stay open when it's hot, and that means the noise from the revelers in the neighborhood comes right into the apartment. As does the bass beat from the strip club located right across the alley - which stays open
until 4:30am.
All that having been said, I would stay there again if I were to return to Wellington.