The first night my flight was delayed and my phone died. It took a little time to get David to ring me back to meet me to let me in the apartment. But he met me outside the apartment and gave me my keys. Not a warm welcome by any stretch of the imagination...but at least he came into the city at 7:45pm. It was late so I did understand, not wanting to chat (plus I visit NZ often so did not have any questions.)

The apartment is great. Very clean and well appointed. The second room had two single beds when it was advertised as a queen. But a quick call in the morning and they came up and pushed the beds together and it was sort of like a queen (the mattresses would separate on occasion...but it was fine and fairly comfortable bed for one person.)

I met Yvonne the owner of the cleaning service that services the apartments. Super friendly and very willing to make sure my stay was great.

Beautiful huge deck overlooking the harbor. The only downside was that you will hear commuter fairies early morning blowing their horns (usually around 6am...but after a week I was used to it and didnt notice them) and the first weekend we had very noisy neighbors. That partied until 6am, I then found out the next day that all we needed to do was call security for noise like this and they would handle it.

I would 100% recommend the property to anyone. Very safe area, plus 24 hour security and you are steps away from all the action of downtown Auckland.