We had a wonderful stay in a lovely smaller room with a very comfortable bed. The room even had it's own fridge and a TV. Only the Wifi connection in the room itself is not very good but everywhere else it works perfectly fine. Besides that everything was very clean and Susan and Brett we're wonderful hosts!
It's a 30 minutes drive to the city center but that doesn't really bother since there are many nice beaches around and Howick has very good restaurants and cafés. Furthermore you have an incredible view towards the city center of Auckland from the living room, especially during sunset! We would definately stay again!