Surprised to see all these great reviews that honestly kept us blindsided. This Airbnb is a great location as it is located downtown in Hilo, however with that being said, there are homeless people near the building and across the street. We arrived to the Airbnb location at night. We got out of our rental car with our luggage and as we were making our way to the front of the building, homeless people were starring at us which made us SUPER uncomfortable and we were afraid they would break in to our rental car. Once we got in the building, the hallway was eerie and dirty. We heard someone screaming from one of the units. As we were trying to unlock the door, I looked to the side and can see this drug-addict man (super dirty and tbh, looks homeless) walking towards us (seems totally out of it). We were freaking out and thankfully got in the unit and closed the door asap.
This place is not butterflies and rainbows despite so many great reviews which I’m absolutely shocked to see. Learned my lesson that I should have done some research of the location as I lost over $200CAD from this reservation. We left the place and went to a nearby hotel.
Conclusion: if you’re looking for a place with a shelter and don’t really care about your surroundings, this is the place for you. Definitely do not recommend females booking this place as we had safety concerns.