Definitely a great bang for the buck! Excellent location, exquisite view (including ocean, mountain, canal and city view, we even spotted rainbow many times) with no buildings blocking in the way.
Other highlights:
1. Shuqin offers some beach gear like the umbrella, floating board, beach tower, etc. which really made our afternoon by the lanikai beach being one of the most enjoyable experiences of our trip (considering last time we got pretty serious sunburn)
2. The TV is awesome with netflix
3. The fridge is huge (we bought a lot of drinks from Don Quijote the first day we arrived)
4. Although the AC is very old and loud, it works perfect! It cools down the room within 5min. However we do need to keep it off during sleeptime since it's pretty loud
5. Location is great. Close to a biki station (although the bikes are completely gone by 9am lol), walking distance to great food options like Carp Dori, Fook Yuen and King Street food spots. Also close to aloha kitchen, ala moana centre, even waikiki, etc.
6. Lots of hangers, plenty closet space and shelf space. Loved that.
7. Standing desk! Although we didnt get to use it, it's def a plus if you are wfh.
8. Great garbage bin, very handy.
9. Shuqin responded very quickly and she sent out warm reminders. Highly appreciate that.
10. The lobby area has many stores including convenience stores, car rentals, cafe shops, brunch places (called creme pot), even hair salon and massage places! Although we didnt try any of these, but they are there for you.
11. Our room key didnt work once at 9pm, there was still a security on the ground floor who helped us reactivate the card. That was a pleasant experience.
12. Smooth self check in and check out.
13. A weighted scale on the LL level, which was super convenient on the day we left since we were sincerely worried if our suitcase was overweight.
A little complaints:
1. Two double beds definitely overcrowds the place, removing one of them would definitely liberate the space. We didn't even find a space to place our 29'' luggage and it had to half-open in a very awkward way in the kitchen hallway the whole time. My husband and I are relatively slim, and we still had a hard time moving around. Also the beds are extremely soft, to an extent it's hard to sit on the edge of the beds. So be careful if you don't like soft beds.
2. Like above-mentioned issue, small bath area.
3. It's an old building. So the water coming out of the shower head was small and unstable, which means the water was automatically switching between hot and cold no matter how you adjust it.
4. Since it's an old building, it sometimes got the old building smell. The kitchen cabinet also has that smell.
5. It's 29th floor, and there are only three elevators. So it sometimes can take a while to wait. Not suitable if you have a very tight schedule.
6. Again it's 29th floor with no building blocking it. The wind sounds very loud at night at times. During our stay, there was only one night that it was too loud that we couldn't fall asleep at all. The other 7 nights were fine.
7. It's 2906A and there's literally someone lives next door in 2906B (you literally share the same door.) The guy was very quiet at night which was awesome, but he sometimes made noises in the morning, which was fine for us. But if you also like make noises or extremely care about personal privacy, just keep that in mind.
8. Many tourists in this building, some of them did not wear masks on the elevator. But only one or two during our 8-day stay.