Mauka Makai was a beautiful place to stay. The home is in a beautiful, quiet neighborhood. The home is lovely, offering space for everyone to be comfortable. The pool area is completely relaxing and beautiful, we should have taken more advantage of that, for sure. The beach club is fun and beautiful as well, especially for young children. The development itself is a lovely place to be...we are glad we stayed here. It's about 30 min from Kona. We ended up spending a lot of time driving to other locations to enjoy on the island...but decided that we would have ended up doing that no matter where we stayed on the island because...it is just a really big island!