It was my wife and I’s first trip to Kauai and our biggest advice to anyone coming is to map out the things you want to do and make your decision on where you want to stay based on that. This is probably a no-brainer to most, but we had no idea that the location of princeville would have us at such a disadvantage for trying to get to a lot of the attractions and things we had planned, which were often on the south shore, which meant they were 1-2hrs away.
Jeff and Shana’s place has a ton of pros:
Great stocked kitchen, knives are sharp and lots of cooking tools
Clean sheets and soft beds
Bathrooms were well stocked and soaps/shampoo provided were high quality
In unit laundry was convenient
Unfortunately the cons list is much longer:
-Really weak selection of spices in the kitchen, if you want to cook anything that needs more than salt, you’re gonna have to buy it
-The beds have this weird block of wood underneath them, if something falls between the large crack between the bed and the pillow(like your phone) then it’s really hard to get it out
-the master bathroom has a cool looking, but painful rock floor, if you’ve been hiking all day or swimming in waterfalls, or at the beach, you come home to take a relaxing shower standing on more rocks
-this unit has no AC, which I know is listed, but I wished I had read more closely, because you have to keep the windows open if you want to try to get any sleep, and there will be mosquitos that get in and eat you alive
-the washing machine works well, but is extremely loud, like concerningly loud, I thought we would get a noise complaint most of the times we’re using it. Sounded like a jet engine going off.
-the door does lock, but it doesn’t really seem like it locks, I wish there was a chain or a bolt that went over the top of the door because it really bothered my wife despite the area being really safe
-the unit doesn’t feel like it has any privacy, the windows are nice because the scenery and area is beautiful, but it also feels like you’re staying in a fishbowl where anyone could look in at you at any point, and again, you have to keep the windows open since it’s so damn hot and humid.
All in all, this wasn’t a bad place to stay, it was just really inconvenient for us and we wish we had known more before booking. If we had we would’ve tried to get mosquito nets or something to try and keep us from getting bit so much at night, or maybe booked somewhere that did have air conditioning so we didn’t have to have the windows open all the time.