Our family of four (two kids grown to old teen, young 20s) stayed at MaryAnn's condo for 8 nights. Seeing the lava fields rimming the golf course and the peek at the ocean beyond was very relaxing. I had not realized how the birds would sound around the complex at 5:30 in the morning, but that was a treat. I got up early on the last morning to record them a little bit from the lanai.
The lanai is L-shaped, wrapping around the living room. There was a nice table for the four of us to enjoy dinners outdoors. We never used the cute little grill, but I did see it in the closet out there, along with a couple of peek a boo geckos. I also spent considerable time relaxing on the lounge chairs in the shade. We were a little too far away to hear the ocean waves, but it does make for a beautiful sunset view when the sky turns orange and pink. One of the doors to the lanai does have a broken lock, but I'm sure MaryAnn will get that fixed soon.
The condo is on the second floor and there is an elevator handy for when you first arrive hauling luggage. My kids scampered up the stairs most of the time. My husband and I arrived back from days sight seeing rather glad to see the elevator sometimes.
I didn't fully understand the air conditioning set up until we saw it, but it makes perfect sense to me now. The thermostat has a 6 hour spin timer, like at public hot tubs. Twist the knob to up to 6 hours and the air conditioning will run. As long as you're there, you can keep "upping" the time if you like. When you leave for the day, make sure it's off. The condo holds the cool very well. We never had a problem coming back to a hot temp in the evening, and we were there in August. When we first arrived it was 78 in the condo and once we activated the air it cooled 5 degrees really quickly.
The kids enjoyed spending time together in the twin beds room. One of them is off to college most of the time, so this was a rare chance to catch up. My husband and I loved the main bedroom with nice closets (with hangers, thank you!) and spacious attached bathroom. We never really used the televisions, but we did find we needed to reset the
Comcast tower several times to reinstate wifi connections. I never mentioned this to MaryAnn, as we were always just recycling the power and moving on. Not a big deal for us, but something of note. The wifi is a little slower than the kids were used to, but I considered that a win as our vacation goal was to (mostly) unplug and slow down together.
We were thrilled with was the washer and dryer. Detergent and dryer sheets at the ready when we arrived, we only packed lightly knowing we would wash and re-wear throughout our trip. We pulled the drying rack out of the main bedroom closet and put it in the living room for all to access. Worked great for us.
We also took advantage of the beach closet. This seems a bit like "take a penny, leave a penny", in that we saw previous folks had left extra sun screen and sundries behind. We had a snorkel trip booked for early the first full morning and stores were closed when we arrived. We were thankful to use the sunscreen from the closet and in turn we left our excess sunscreen and after sun soothing lotion. The closet held 4 boogie boards and 2 or 3 beach folding chairs, a little beverage cooler and a sun hat (and some other stuff I can't remember) at the time of our visit in August. There are also at least 6 or 8 beach towels in the main bedroom's bathroom closet.
Since I burn to a crispy critter in 20 minutes without strong sun screen support, we drove to A Bay and never walked it. I didn't want to "waste" my sunshine minutes walking to the beach and back. I recommend parking at the Lava Lava Beach Club beach access lot. We drove up to Hapuna Beach one morning - body surfing there was more fun. None of the beaches we visited seemed very busy. Just really relaxing. Thanks for a lovely stay.