Beautiful place and great value! Short walk to the beach and a restaurant that has $1 mimosa special. Gorgeous views from the balcony. Free parking. Great base to have a Maui adventure.
Not the resort experience! Which is ok, but just remember the condo is in a HOA complex. Most of the condos arent vacation rentals. The owners are clearly trying to protect their investment, but it didnt always feel like they are in the hospitality busines.
The hosts kept trying to get us to communicate via email off Airbnb. I kept telling them I only wanted to communicate on the Airbnb app and they ignored it. That protects them and us. It felt shady, even if that wasn't their intention. They asked us to sign a rental agreement, which has $200 and $500 fees for violations. Airbnb policy states you dont have to sign anything a host asks you to. Then it gets murky-airbnb policy says if the host wants you to sign a rental agreement as a condition to stay there you can ask to cancel the reservation. This rental only gives you 50% back if you cancel.
Few things:
Check-in instructions were buried in this several page pdf file of do's and don'ts for the condo. Periodically we would joke about something "is it allowed in the pdf?!" They were super clear about NO SAND (with 1 line about washing off in the carwash area) in the apartment and not hanging towels/clothes on stuff to dry. A drying rack to set up in the bathtub would super helpful. Murphy bed was pretty squeaky. Condo is on the second floor and has a bunch of steep steps-we were fine, but not good if you have an ortho injury.
There was folding chairs and beach equipment available for use. That was awesome and really useful.
All in all we had a great time and this was a solid landing place.