Princes Wharf — Hotel in Waitematā

Short story: racist security personnel -P24 Group.

I had been here a few times for events and decided it would be a good spot for NYE with family. While we were looking at the few restaurants there (been walking for 10 mins or so and just reached the end), A security team member approached and angily yelled at us in front of the restaurants: "Move off the path! Do you speak english? Why are you not moving off the path?" - looking around.. we were not obstructing any cars or people? It wad dead quiet for an Auckland wharf.

First, we had not heard or been instructed by her or anyone from the wharf team to move off the path, despite that we had been trying to walk on one side (as some vehicles had been using the path too)

Secondly: to her surprise most of us spoke english and responded to her racist remarks. Her respond as to why she needed to be rude? "Because people have been screaming at you to move off the path" then talked to her colleague "if you are not rude they won't leave!" . Funnily, the area was dead quiet, each retaurant/ bar had one to two group, two car drove past us, almost no other pedestrians apart from 4 who witnessed this, no horns were sounded.

I was expecting much better from a big establishment And wonder what this team member would have yelled at people who cant actually...

Recently disembarked from a Celebrity cruise in Auckland and it was the worst disembarkation port we have ever had the displeasure of experiencing. We were told that we could not self disembark as there was one lift and no escalators so you could not walk off early with your luggage - forget about any early flights. Huge lines to just get off the ship and clear immigration and then the lines just continued for luggage pick up and biosecurity with no clear flow. By the time we got out we missed our transport to the airport and had to rebook but even outside the chaos continued as people were standing everywhere looking for their transport because the pick up area was unclear and disorganised. Will now stay clear of any cruise disembarking at...

As we were disembarking the Dream ship, the terminal wardens directing the traffic were quite disorganised, seemed stressed. Was not a good look or experience. Uneccessary agression and rudeness. People parking their vehicles crookedly (taking up two parking spots), as their were many people waiting for transport.

The drivers whom were behaving selfishly with their parking, were not policed well enough when asked to park straight, in order to allow others to park and collect friends and family members.

It was a mess, that didnt need to happen that way. I would be very concerned if there were a natural disaster. Based on the organisation we observed, many would...