The house is just a few minutes on foot to a beautiful beach. Great for early morning walks before breakfast to see dawn and a few seals sleeping on the sand. We were a party of 7 (4 adults and 3 teenagers). Lots of space for everyone. The kitchen had everything you could possibly need. Beds were comfortable. Bathrooms had lovely shampoo, conditioner and shower gel. We travelled from Italy so couldn't bring anything for the beach so it was really great to have the chairs, bodyboards and snorkling gear. We travelled a lot while there in fact Laie is a great base. Visited Pearl Harbour, Waikiki beach, Honolulu (Downtown, Mission Houses, shopping district etc), Diamond Head crater (great views), Waimanalo, Hanauma Bay (beautiful fish great for snorkling), Byodo-In Temple, Hoomaluhia Botanical Gardens, Sunset Beach, Haleiwa (where we rented paddle boats to go up the river, this town is also great for restaurants), Dole pineapple plantation, and Makaha beach. We found a lovely beach near Haleiwa which was practically deserted and saw load of turtles throughout the day. This beach is apparently where Lost was filmed. Having visited the whole of Oahu island I would have to say that Kelly's house is situated in the best part of the island if you want to visit lots of other areas and also because I loved the vegetation here. Plus you don't get the hoards of tourists. Everything was green and lush, the mountains are absolutely beautiful. I really really loved it here. In terms of eating, we had some delicious garlic prawns twice from Giovanni's shrimp truck, and lovely burgers in the Seven Brother's restaurant. If you want some good restaurants just go to Haleiwa. We had great meals in Joe's Seefood and the Haleiwa Beach House (both near the port) and some nice thai food in the Elephant Shack. Would totally recommend Kelly's house. If it weren't on the other side of the globe I'd spent all my vacations there!!!