We booked Catherine’s home for the tail end of our stay on the big island, where we had never been before.
We had a nice resort stay north or Kona and headed to Catherine’s home, and loaded up on groceries at the Safeway on the way. Glad it was recommended to grab groceries before heading into discovery harbor as there are not a lot of options.
We arrived just before it got dark and it was torrential downpours. We didn’t want to cook so my husband went into ocean view with our 8 year old to grab some pizza from the local pizza shop.
I will say they definitely got some sketchy vibes that evening which kind of had my husband worried about our trip. Perhaps they arrived on a bad night, I’m not sure but they didn’t go back to the shopping complex again, but the pizza was good.
Our first 2 days it just rained and rained but we still had fun checking out the back sand beach, coffee plantations, the Malasada shop, volcano, etc. There’s also a fairly new coffee shop across from the Malasada bakery which was also really nice, lots of picnic tables to sit at and generally a really nice space.
We were SO happy when the sun came out and we could finally take advantage of the pool and all the lovely amenities. I was still working while I was there but was able to setup shop on the patio and enjoy the weather while I worked.
The house has literally all the amenities you need(minus food) so that you can just relax and hang out. We went on some runs in the neighborhood which was nice and everyone was pretty friendly who we ran into along the way.
The house was very clean, probably one of the cleanest I’ve ever booked on air bnb. I actually banned air bnb 2 years ago because of a very bad rental so this was my first booking after that ban, and I’m so glad it worked out.
While we were there we were trying to figure out ways that we could move to the neighborhood. Such a nice chance of pace from where we are now.