We chose Hal’s place for its price and position in the middle of Auckland City. We had four happy nights there. Everything we wanted to do was no more than ten minutes walk away. The apartment is small, but we very comfortable. The loft bed was surprisingly accessible up the unique staircase and the small kitchen worked well for us on night one. We soon realised though, that the many multicultural restaurants a minute or so from the front door were very reasonably priced. The lane below the window is busy until about 10PM, it was a friendly kind of busy. Hal left us complimentary earplugs but we didn’t need them.