Ellan was a great host. Very good communication. Parking in the car park opposite was easy. Place was clean and had all facilities described. This place was great for 2 night stay to get ready for our journey through NZ. It’s not a quiet location due to main road which has lots of traffic. On Friday night we had lots of loud music, shouting and car noise from the car park until 12.30am I think due to local youngsters in there but we didn’t notice anything on Saturday so maybe it was a one off. Also worth mentioning that whilst this is an apartment with own access, it is essentially a room in a house with a locked door into the main house so do expect to hear conversation from the house which we did at night and in the mornings when we were there. None of those things are a criticism of the host or the facilities provided. It’s clean, easy and well located to stroll over to the beach or out to restaurants and bars. Also close to Auckland city centre - probably a 15 minute drive.