Downtown Auckland

Downtown Auckland is going thru economical, transportation, commercial, and governmental development; ever since our new Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern decided a compassionate solution for New Zealanders to live in this better place. The major streets of Downtown Auckland are Queen St, Customs St, and Quay St. The Downtown area holds our Britomart Transport Station, Wilson Parking Stations, Shopping Complexes, Major Banks, High Level Eatery, Hotels, connects to every Motorways, and etc.. The vicinity is good for street photography and certain genres of photography as well. I have decided to create a long exposure photograph of Downtown Auckland.. The photos are attached to this Guide. Enjoy your visit to Auckland.

So sorry to say this but Auckland was dirty and quite a mess. Not a lot of friendly faces or good restaurants. Granted, we didn’t have a car so we were walking everywhere but we both felt a bit uneasy.

Spending 2 nights just off Queen St near Civic Theatre. I was born in Auckland, moved away then came back and lived for a few years as an adult in the 90’s. I loved coming into the city, shopping, dining and wandering around, it was vibrant and wonderful. Now 28 years later I am appalled at the state of the place, I walked up and down Queen Street last night 4-6pm and must have seen 30+ homeless people living rough in doorways and calling out to me as I walked past (they choose to not go to shelters because they can’t drink or beg there right?) Also lots of homeless drunks, (a group of them came into the supermarket Countdown and acted like they own the place), I actually started to feel unsafe to be honest! Garbage all around, shops abandoned and boarded up. The stunning IMAX theatre complex now a wasteland taken over by skateboarders. What a terrible first impression for our much needed tourists ‘Welcome to New Zealand’ what a disgusting image. Auckland CC should be ashamed! The derelicts, homeless and bums need to be moved on and there needs to be a police presence on the beat patrolling. The city centre of our largest city should be something to be proud of. Message to our tourists: please move on, go to Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin and all the wonderful places in between, Auckland is not a true representation of our beautiful country.

It is chaotic at this moment because of the underground railway construction, it has been delayed and over spent, I wonder anyone really looking into the problem and come up with a solution?

i've lived here for a year now, i wish they would heat the flooring outside burgerking

We had awesome weather. 👌 Friendly team.

Nice food court but bottom floor is too windy

I enjoy historical place it why I go there