wonderful house, gracious host (quick responses to questions, local recommendations galore, and beautiful flowers and Hawaiian music playing throughout the house when we arrived made us feel so welcomed). We wish we would have booked this house for all of our trip - we divided our trip into time near Hilo for the Volcano and time on the Kona side. but honestly we could have accessed the Volcano just as well from this house and we were still close enough to head up to enjoy snorkeling cruises on the Kona side. A touch remote but we wanted to be a bit away from it all and be able to spend quality time with our kids. We brought a bunch of travel games to be able to just hang out at the house but we needn't have - there were tons of games in the closets and great beach/pool toys as well! We were all sad to leave, and would love to come back with my extended family.