First and foremost, this place was spotless and that mattered to us the most. The kitchen was huge, full of windows and the skylights gave it a very inviting vibe to it. If you open up the windows, feeling the cross breeze was amazing.
In this neighborhood, you absolutely need parking, so the two-car tandem driveway was very helpful.
For restaurants, Amami sushi is right outside. Diamond Head General Store and Hana is also nearby for excellent Hawaiian fare.
The hosts were super helpful and very accommodating. They addressed things right away and followed up as well. We stayed for about 10 days and they were proactive about giving us an opportunity to squeeze in a load or two of laundry when the adjacent rental was rotating in new tenants.
The place is pretty bare bones, but we had a pretty low rate (probably because we were a last minute booking). As others noted, the kitchen was pretty simplistic. We brought our own stuff, so that didn’t bother us too much. I wrote down a long list of minor items that were broken for the hosts, so I hope they will be addressed for future guests. They were low priority for us and we didn’t want anyone entering the apt while we were there (due to COVID). Because the hosts are so considerate, I bet they would have fixed it if we had asked them to.
Note: If you have young children or elderly parents, the stairs are pretty steep and long. We didn’t realize it (I probably didn’t read the description thorough enough!) and was worried about my elderly MIL and baby the entire time.