Rock Bar & Karaoke is a bar on Ti Rakau Drive in Burswood, Auckland, rated 4.0 from 341 Google reviews. Reviewers praise the friendly staff, the private rooms and the affordable prices, often picking it for birthdays, and note that photo ID is needed at the door. Private-room karaoke works differently from an open-mic pub: your group hires a room, often by the hour, so booking ahead for Friday and Saturday nights pays off, and picking a room size to suit your party matters more than people expect. Song catalogues usually run from current chart hits back through decades of classics, and queueing up your favourites on the touch-screen is half the fun. Regulars know the night belongs to the group, not the best singer — duets, group choruses and dubious choices are the whole point. For a birthday singalong in east Auckland, this Burswood bar on Ti Rakau Drive sits in easy reach of Botany.