Quest Highbrook
Business-park apartments nine minutes from Sylvia Park
About this hotel
This property serves a different kind of Auckland trip: Highbrook is a business district south of the city centre, and the apartments here are built around kitchenettes, a dishwasher and tea and coffee facilities for guests on a longer work assignment rather than a weekend in the CBD. Sylvia Park and Botany Village Shopping Centre are nine minutes away by car, and Rainbows End theme park is twelve, giving families in the area an easy day out. The city centre and airport both sit about twenty minutes' drive away. A new on-site bar and restaurant, completed alongside the building in December 2025, adds an on-site dinner option that the area lacked before.
- Business-park location
- Kitchen apartments
- Near Sylvia Park
- Family day trips nearby
Our take
This suits business travellers based south of the city and families who prioritise space and a kitchen over a CBD address. The proximity to Sylvia Park and Rainbows End makes it workable for a family with kids as well as a work trip. Travellers wanting to walk to the Sky Tower or Viaduct Harbour should book a CBD hotel instead, since this location is a twenty-minute drive from the centre.
- Check the new on-site restaurant's opening hours before booking dinner, it launched alongside the completed building
- Use the free Wilson Parking spaces outside for stays under 90 minutes, the on-site covered parking carries a charge
- Plan a Rainbows End afternoon if travelling with kids, it's a twelve-minute drive from the door
Why we love it
- Kitchenette in every apartment
- Nine minutes from Sylvia Park
- Twelve minutes from Rainbows End
- A newly completed on-site bar and restaurant
Why guests love itTravellers on a longer work assignment south of the city tend to value the kitchenette and dishwasher here more than any CBD view, since it turns a business stay into something closer to a short-term home. Families passing through for a Rainbows End day find the twelve-minute drive convenient enough to base themselves here rather than in the city centre.