We stayed in Bronwin's place on a recent long weekend in Wellington. It is a great location in terms of walkable to most of the city, convenient to bus routes (including the AirportFlyer from airport), and has easy (but expensive) parking nearby. Right opposite the night market for food (on a Friday) and just down the street for the same market on a Saturday.
The apartment is very central and as such we had a lot of noise. On Friday and Saturday nights the surrounding bars (it is above an Irish Bar and backs on to another large craft beer bar, as well as numerous other bars in the street) had loud live music from 10pm to 2am. The floor below is also having significant work (rebuild or earthquake strengthening?) which starts at 6am in the week. Perhaps they don't hammer and do loud work all the time, but they did plenty in our stay!
The internet is fast (fibre) and there is a small desk which is useful to work at.
The layout of the rooms and structure of the building (tall ceilings) means that people upstairs can be talking etc and those downstairs don't hear them, which is nice.