A hotel at 29 Galway Street in the Britomart area of the Auckland CBD, on the waterfront, with 99 guest rooms. The website calls it New Zealand's only 5 Green Star hotel, certified for its design and build by the New Zealand Green Building Council. The building has hand-made brick and timber-lined rooms.
Rooms are 22 square metres, with built-in sofas, hand-made ceramics, tiled bathrooms, minibars and Super King beds with organic cotton sheets. Waitematā View rooms look over the harbour, and City View rooms look over the downtown skyline. The Landing Suites are the larger option. The hotel's restaurant, kingi, serves locally sourced seafood and is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day from 7am until late. Takutai Square is outside, in the middle of the Britomart neighbourhood. Our pick in Britomart for a harbour view room near the waterfront.