This is a perfect place to be based in Auckland. Close to a HUGE range of great cafés and restaurants in Ponsonby Road, all amenities and the night clubs and bars of K' Road, and an easy walk to the City Link bus ($1:00 to the ferry and the commercial centre).
If you don't feel like going out, then you can open the curtains to the gob-smacking view of the city. Amazing by day and almost beyond belief by night!
Highly recommended. :-)