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YHA Auckland City

Address Details

Host: Steve Collier
Cnr City Road and Liverpool Street, Auckland City

+64 9 309 2802

+64 9 373 5083
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Rooms & Rates

Number of beds: 154

Beds From: NZ$21
Rooms From: NZ$66

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Operating Hours
Reception Hours:

6.45am - 11.15pm plus 24 hour access

Check-in time: 2pm Check-out time: 10am
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Guest Services & Facilities
Closest food shop 100m 100m Internet access at Hostel TV room in Hostel Common room in Hostel Self catering Luggage storage at Hostel Lockers available at Hostel Laundry Facilities

YHA Auckland City

HI Quality certified hostelYHA Auckland City is the ideal backpacker hostel to start or finish your New Zealand adventure. The YHA Auckland City hostel combines the excitement of the city with a safe and secure environment. Located at the top of Auckland’s Queen Street, this former hotel has backpacker accommodation comprising mainly twin and double rooms with some multi-share rooms and some of our rooms have views over Auckland city. There is a sun deck on the 3rd floor with a BBQ. 

Located in the beating heart of Auckland, New Zealand’s largest and most exciting city, the YHA Auckland City hostel provides easy access to the city centre and is surrounded by cafes, restaurants and pubs.

Knowledgeable Auckland City hostel staff are on hand 24 hours a day to welcome you with a big smile! This Auckland hostel has internet access and an onsite travel booking service available seven days, where local activities as well as domestic travel throughout New Zealand can be booked. The YHA Auckland City hostel is a great accommodation choice for the start of your New Zealand backpacking experience.

YHA Auckland City is a large and central YHA with seven floors of mostly twin and double rooms – the upper ones with fine city views – plus well-equipped common areas and a large travel centre. - The Rough Guide to New Zealand

Special features at YHA Auckland City that backpackers love:

  • Located in the heart of the action in Auckland’s city centre, just off Queen Street
  • 24 hour a day facilities: reception, kitchen, internet and laundry.
  • Third floor sun deck with BBQ.
  • Really close to the Airbus stop
  • Pre-check in luggage storage, coin operated lockers for safe and secure backpacker accommodation.

About Auckland

Auckland city is New Zealand’s largest city and will probably be your gateway city to the rest of New Zealand. But make sure you stay awhile in Auckland, the ‘City of Sails’ - the vibrant, colourful and cultural capital of New Zealand.
Try some of these great Auckland activities: check out the panoramic views from the Sky Tower (or walk around or jump from it!), experience life underwater at Kelly Tarlton’s Underwater World, walk across the Auckland Harbour Bridge, take a harbour cruise across to the fascinating Rangitoto Island, the retreat of Waiheke Island or fashionable Devonport, climb the volcanoes and ancient Maori Pa sites, try canyoning through lush rainforest or go sailing with the many Auckland yachties on the harbour.

As the largest city in New Zealand Auckland has a pulsing music and theatre scene and you could shop till you drop at one of Auckland’s many malls. To learn something of New Zealand and Maori history the Auckland Museum has a world class collection and the Auckland Art Gallery has New Zealand’s best collection of fine art. The famous One Tree Hill, Auckland Maritime Museum, Viaduct Basin and beautiful Winter Gardens are other places worth a visit while in Auckland.

After you’ve seen everything there is to see in Auckland (could take a while) then take a day trip out to the wild West Coast surf beaches, up to the Bay of Islands or down to Rotorua, Waitomo or the Coromandel Peninsula. Auckland really does have it all!

Be sure to take your YHA card to grab the many discounts in and around Auckland.

Top activities to do while backpacking in Auckland

  • Visit Auckland’s Sky Tower for breathtaking views over the ‘City of Sails’. Try the Sky Walk or the Sky Jump if you’re feeling brave.

  • Walk across Auckland’s iconic Auckland Harbour Bridge for stunning views of Auckland’s downtown with Sky Tower and across Auckland Harbour. 

  • Auckland is best seen from the harbour, take a cruise or go sailing around Auckland harbour, across to fashionable Devonport, or to the fascinating islands of Waiheke, Rangitoto or Great Barrier Island.

  • Kelly Tarlton’s Underwater World remains a popular place to visit to see New Zealand’s varied marine life up close and personal. 

  • Visit the Auckland Museum and Auckland Art Gallery for some of New Zealand’s best Maori and fine art collections. 

  • Take in some live music or live theatre – Auckland is New Zealand’s entertainment capital.

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How to get there...
Details
Car
Bus/Shuttle
800m to hostel from station. Head down Victoria Street and turn right into Queen Street, City Road is on the left
Plane
23km to Auckland International Airport. Door to door transfers with Airbus and Super Shuttle.
Train
1km to hostel. Walk from station up Queen Street to Hostel (25mins) or catch a bus up Queen Street from Britomart ($0.50).
Ferry

Here's a taster of what's going on in this region, for a full list of events check out Event Finder

Wednesday, 09 June 2010 - Wednesday, 09 June 2010, Auckland City Library (Tamaki Pataka Korero)
What's Hot at Libraries

Tuesday, 03 August 2010 - Tuesday, 03 August 2010, Auckland Club
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society Tasting

Wednesday, 04 August 2010 - Wednesday, 04 August 2010, Aotea Centre
Rick Stein -- A Food Odyssey

Wednesday, 21 July 2010 - Wednesday, 21 July 2010, The Whisky Shop Shop 11, Elliott Stables
Whisky Tastings for Beginners

Thursday, 05 August 2010 - Thursday, 05 August 2010, SkyCity Theatre
8th Annual WIFT NZ Awards

Friday, 19 March 2010 - Friday, 19 March 2010, Ellen Melville Hall
City Designers Market

Saturday, 25 April 2009 - Saturday, 25 April 2009, Auckland CBD
Karangahape Rd Street Market

Saturday, 05 December 2009 - Saturday, 05 December 2009, Elliott Street Carpark
Auckland City Market

Saturday, 19 June 2010 - Saturday, 19 June 2010, Britomart
City Farmers' Market

Saturday, 07 August 2010 - Saturday, 07 August 2010, Cassette Number Nine
Cassette Supermarkets

Saturday, 07 August 2010 - Saturday, 07 August 2010, Auckland Town Hall, THE EDGE®
Miss IndiaNZ 2010

Tuesday, 10 August 2010 - Tuesday, 10 August 2010, Degree
New Member Night - Auckland Singles

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Group Accommodation

YHA offers a range of accommodation to suit groups of all types. Click here for more information about how YHA can help your group with their accommodation, transport and activity needs.

Each hostel offers a range of accommodation options for your group. Please email our Customer Services team or phone freephone (within NZ) 0800 278 299.

Or if you would like to make a group booking, please fill out our Groups Booking form.
 






 
An awesome hostel that is very close to the city centre. The staff were pretty on to it with keeping the facilities clean. I personally thought our room needed air conditioning but other than that, my stay at the YHA was awesome!

HostelWorld.com, 17 January 2009

It was very clean, but it could have done with more bathrooms. The staff are really helpful and it's really close to town. There is a big kitchen and dining area and there is a shuttle to the airport just outside. It is on top of the steepest street ever, so it will work your thigh muscles. The laundry is very cheap and there is secure lockers down in the basement too. Altogether, a great hostel.

HostelBookers, 22 November 2008