There are so many pluses to Kandy's place. For one thing, she is super about communication! I appreciated that. The other things are:
The unit is well equipped (at least for everything my husband and I needed). The front bedroom (not where we slept) is darling. The two bathrooms were very nice and very clean. There were plenty of towels and nice lightweight cotton beach towels (more like a sarong type thing).
The kitchen had a couple of ways to make coffee (hubby was happy for that because he struggled with one of the ways:).
The location is very well suited to getting to the main part of "downtown" Pa'ia.
There is a good selection of chairs, beach toys and boogie boards for use.
There are plenty of extras for clean freaks like me.
I appreciated that there was Dr. Bronner's for washing up in the shower. Nice to have a healthy for the planet option available.
I also really appreciate the plastic containers. They made packing a picnic much easier.
We had a few snafus during our trip and I think it is only fair to be completely honest in my review.
Noise was an issue. I admit to being sensitive to noise, but hear me out (pun intended). Night one, road work right outside of the building. Morning one, exterior painters arrived around 7:15 and started to talk extremely loudly right outside the bedroom window. Night two there was road work again and a woman screaming, and finally talking super loudly with her 3 companions in the unit next to us. That was around 10p.m. and lasted until about 1a.m. Was there anything Kandy could do about that? i don't think so, except, I think we should have been alerted to the painting and roadwork. Kandy did say she thought all of those things were supposed to be done by the day we arrived. by the way, the painting really helped spruce the place up! The air conditioner is in the living room. It worked well, but it does not get the bedroom very cool at all. I imagine if you left it blasting all day it might, but we didn't want to waste electricity. One could leave the windows open, but it would be much noisier. I would suggest (forgot to) black out curtains on the windows.
This is a multi unit rental that seems to primarily be short term rentals (I am basing it on talking to a number of very friendly people who shared where they were visiting from) and it is not like a hotel where you can call to ask someone to tell the party folks to quiet down.
Would we stay again? Probably, because the location is marvelous and the unit is well appointed and cared for. That beach at Mama's is darling and delightful.
I do think this place is a terrific value for a few people that are traveling as a group or with children.
Pa'ia is one of my favorite places on Maui.
Be sure to dine at Flatbread. It is consistently great and he staff if always friendly as well. Shopping at Mana for groceries is a great. I consider it the absolute best store, of the approximately 5 I have shopped in while in Maui. Mana has a nice take out counter and a very good fresh press juice bar and bakery.
We tried Cafe Mambo this trip. It was good and the staff was super nice.
We hope everyone enjoys their stay on Maui as much as we did.
Aloha.