Pros
- Location - Peace, silence during day time, hear and watch beautiful birds
- Experience - lot of details in the entire house. It looks beautiful
- Everything you need to cook is in the kitchen - including rice cooker, juicer, toaster etc.
- Outdoor seating area. It was really good during day time with cool breezes, when I visited in November.
- Sort of outdoor shower, if you like that kind of things.
- The host. Tried to help me with a Ethernet to USB2.0 adapter, got me an Avocado, took me to the volcano fissure couple of mins walk away and explained all about it.
- The property is beautiful. The estate in which the property is present is also beautiful
Cons
- If you are a cleanliness freak, this place is generally clean everywhere, but don't expect a 4-star hotel style clean. Some kitchen stuff needed cleaning. The bed linens could smell better.
- Frog sounds in the night. Its all over the rain forest. I'm a light sleeper but too tired to care about it and had decent sleep. There is a good sound system to listen music.
- If you need to work full-time, internet was unstable. It is sometimes is around 3-5 Mbps during which I was able to get my work done. However sometimes it would not respond. My T-Mobile had only 1-bar. When I find a correct spot for it, I was able to use LTE and tether my phone at around 3 Mbps speed. It was a savior when the internet went off. Just a few yards away from the house towards the volcano fissure, my T-Mobile had 4 bars and 18 Mbps speed. I ended up pulling my car there and working from it. Eliot was going to fix by increasing the speed next morning. So check with him if it has improved. I stayed in other place in the same area that had 400 Mbps speed.
Other
- Grocery 7-mins drive.
- There is a library in the town 7 mins drive and they have Free WiFI spot outside the library.
- There will be Geckos. They are all over in the Island though.
- Arrive before it gets dark so you can get a feel for the place.
- There is no lock from outside the house. Host said it is all safe.
Overall, I would stay at this place for the experience itself and also for silence, peace and simple living.