I want to start this off by saying my fiancé and I travel a good amount for vacations, work, family trips, etc. and have used Airbnb and other sites for a long time. I say this because I have always given 5 stars on my reviews, until this one, as it takes a lot for us to be disappointed.
Then this one came along. In hindsight we should have read the reviews which dated back to early 2020 which aligned more with what the place actually represented. Or noticed the pics don’t really highlight the building and just point to a “renovated” condo with an amazing location.
The one plus about this place is it is close to the water in Waikiki. But our disappointment started as soon as we arrived in the building. If you come through the parking deck, you immediately notice how outdated the building and the first floor are. You go up the outdated elevator to the units floor and about a foot of the paint around the baseboard of the hallway is rotting away. When we arrived in the unit, yes there are some parts that are renovated but from personal experience it was a touch up job with the very basic quality supplies.
There was a smell of the building/unit that would not go away and one I will remember forever. There was sand/dirt on the floor and fingerprints on the refrigerator, indicating the cleanup upon arrival was low quality as well. The bed was small and the sheets were like something I used in college. This place was massively underwhelming based on expectations from me and my fiancé.
Now, most of our disappointment comes from the price of the place. We paid over $300/night so I expected the Airbnb to be good quality, and it was far from it. If it gives you any indication of how bad we felt the place was, we left within an hour of being there and went to the Laylow hotel. The price was much less, with way more amenities, and the quality of the hotel/food/politeness of the staff actually made what could have been a terrible vacation a great one.
I will also say this, and I am sorry for a lengthy review, that if you go in with these expectations I’m sure the place can be great. If I had been paying $75-$100/night to be near the beach, then yes this place would have been exactly what we wanted. But for the price and the quality of the unit, building, etc. it was not even close to what we should have received.