Mayu is a great host, very easy to communicate. She responded to my requests quickly, and went above and beyond to make my vacation a memorable one. The condo is in the central location, less than 5 minutes walk from beach, streets are clean so I walked barefoot to/from beach. There is an ABC store on the corner of the next block (literally, it’s only twenty yards), we bought sunscreen lotion and several things. There is also a small food place downstairs on the ground level of the building, yelp rating is high, we tried it and found the food was indeed every good, not fancy, but homemade style, and best thing, very cheap. There are plenty restaurants in the area, some of them are expensive, as everyone should expect. The Foodland supermarket in a mall (about 1.5 miles to the west) is FANTASTIC. It has all kinds of fish/seafood poke, at very reasonable prices. Highly recommended.
The only problem we encountered was the check in process. The condo is in a hotel building. Check in is processed by the hotel front desk. I have a different name on the Airbnb reservation from my driver’s license, the hotel front desk REFUSED to check me in. I asked them to contact Mayu, don’t know if they did, but after an hour waiting, they told me they called Airbnb help desk and was waiting for a reply. I had to explain how the Airbnb app works and everything and tried very hard to convince the hotel staff it was indeed me who made the reservation. It took me almost two hours just trying to talk senses into these hotel staff. Totally unbelievable.
To be fair, this bad experience had nothing to do with Mayu, she did all she can to help. Hopefully the issue can be resolved in someway for the future guests.