Lauren is a super easy host. It is simple to share things with her (food, surfboard, making food). The dogs are cute and totally friendly. As long as your room and bathroom is on the other side than the masterbedroom, privacy is really good. She lives for a long time on the island so listen to her tips. For me (doing the triathlon and went surfing) the location was perfect. Nice bike rides and pretty close to the ali'i drive where some surfspots are. If you are searching for some location in the mountains or an oceanfrontside, this is the wrong place. This place is inbetween a little bit uphill and walking distance to the ocean (5 min). When Lauren goes to work she gets up early, so if you have an easy sleep you might probably hear her. But honestly on Big Island you should get up with the sun because it lasts there for just about 12h. Really good is for sure that Lauren helps you out if there are some "special tasks" like a drop off on race day ;-)