Overall this stay is okay. The room is clean, new and well-equipped. We like the powerful Mitsubishi AC and free parking. The hosts are also reasonably responsive.
But, there are things that could be better:
1. The vehicle gate opens only if a passenger comes in through the pedestrian gate and open it from the inside. This is very inconvenient as the gate is right by the side of a highway exit and we have to block a lane waiting the gate to be opened manually. It could be better the it opens with a motion sensor.
2. The given vehicle gate code did not work at check in and throughout the entire trip. We had to block some traffic waiting for the host to come down and open the gate for us.
3. The room door code did not work at check in and throughout the entire trip. We had to wait for the host to come down and provide another code. We are not sure it is due to that we were given a wrong code or that the host didn't change the code after the previous party left, in which case it would be unsafe.
4. This is a two-floor residential home divided into 5? units, the hosts live on the second floor while the first floor is divided into 4 different units being rented out. The house clearly isn't designed for sound proof. We can always hear talking from other rooms. This situation improved after I went to knock their doors and ask their to talk quietly.
5. On Friday night a neighbor house had a late night party that last into 2-3am. Their music and laugh can be heard loudly in this unit. We barely slept that night. This noisy behavior is against the Honolulu noise code but the host was unwilling to step in. We had to call the police on our own.