Grand Central Railway Campus

This the worse apartment I have ever lived in. The rent is OK for living in the city. Around $ 160 weekly for 3 by 3 sq meter room.
The apartment unit is extremely ugly, dirty, not maintained at all.
One unit will have 3 – 4 bedrooms with shared bathroom and shower.
Outside the unit, there is one big communal kitchen with 20+ stoves.
Sapphire is right. It is not really suitable for ladies.
Some bedroom will have 2 – 3 people living in it.
Mostly are Indian men. They are fine but some of them like to cook inside the apartment unit and that will trigger the smoke alarm. Mostly at night and midnight. Sometimes at 3 AM in the morning.
The whole building’s telephone wire was uninstalled, so all tenants are «forced» to use internet provided by Freedom Internet.
Security is an issue as well. I lost my cash. Found out after I came back home.

I’m not 100 percent sure that you can just walk on into this place if you don’t live here, but I did anyway because the building is truly amazing. Actually I am pretty sure you can walk into the main entrance part because there are no security doors here, but the next part is where it has been converted into small apartments, so don’t go getting yourself into trouble.
Anyway this is the old railway building, and I can remember using it when it was still operational many years back. It is architecturally a fantastic place to visit, both outside and inside, and such an iconic building that it should be used as something worthwhile, like a museum. But alas it is being wasted as budget accommodation, and pretty dodgy accommodation at that. It makes me sad. And now I’m confused as to how to distribute my rating stars.

If I was just rating this building on looks alone, I would have given it 5 stars. It’s a beautiful old heritage type building that was constructed in 1930 and has been called «one of the most self– consciously monumental public buildings erected in early twentieth century New Zealand». True to its name it was the former main railway station of New Zealand before services were moved to the Britomart station.
The inside lower floor is just as visually stunning as the outside, with mural like floors and grand staircases. However all this just belies the sham it houses now. It is now used as housing for Auckland University students and shoddy housing it is too. Tiny kitchenettes that lead off to even tinier bedrooms, the most basic bathrooms ever, and a communal cooking and eating area.
It’s not even that well priced, it should be at clearance level rent. Honestly I feel sorry for anyone who has to live here voluntarily, but the apartment market in Auckland is so tight at the moment it really is needs must.
It’s such a shame that such a wonderful, historic building is really going to waste.