This was a wonderful place to explore the Napili Bay and Lahaina area for the first time. The views are spectacular and the location is great. Walk out the front door, directly to your left and you’re right on the beach at napili bay, which is crazy gorgeous. Or out the front door to your right, and you’re directly at the Gazebo restaurant for brunch with an ocean view. TIP: skip the early lines and wait until around 12/1 when the breakfast crowds have died down, and there is no wait at all. Super easy to grab takeout and eat on the patio of the unit instead, away from the crowds! :)
I walked the Kapalua trail every morning (starts over just past the Napili Resort on the right hand side of the bay), and took it along the coast all the way over to the Ritz for amazing coffee and pastries at the Kai bar. Round trip it’s about 3 miles and is just the most beautiful walk, taking you along Kapalua bay beach, then along more coastline / cliffs, over to the ritz. Go for your walk around 6/7 am for beautiful cool weather (no wind) and amazing calm waters - in which you’ll see an occasional early swimmer or snorkeler, enjoying the calm/quiet conditions.
By 8am, the beaches start to fill up with tourists looking to secure their spot on the sand (Napili - where the condo is) and Kapalua next door. Napili beach is SO crowded past 8am, and by 2pm each day is so windy. Better to take the short drive up to DT Fleming or Slaughterhouse beach around the corner, where you won’t have resorts and crowds lining the beaches.
The unit itself is very well appointed, with everything that you need to cook meals at home. The kitchen is nicely updated, just perfect. The bathroom is big and also very nicely updated, and the walk in shower is huge! There were nice little amenities offered in the bathroom and kitchen (such as hotel sized soaps, shampoo, conditioner, lotion) and even newly packaged paper towels and pancake mix in the kitchen!
The bed is alright, full disclosure we didn’t sleep super well due to the noise outside the unit and inside. There are some interesting humming type noises that randomly kick in inside the unit during the night - maybe from the appliances, not entirely sure. The windows in the bathroom, above the front door and directly next to the bed do not keep out sound as they are the shutter type windows with screens and no glass. It might be more quiet for the next guests, I suppose it all depends, but during our stay there were loud guests rinsing off at the public outdoor shower next to the beach access path outside our back door, as well as playing bocce ball on the lawn outside our front door - and this happened late into the evening and early in the morning (yesterday people were showering and talking loudly at 3:30am). Just bring earplugs in case I suppose and I’m sure it will be fine.
The guests prior to us had accidentally taken the parking pass with them so we didn’t have one when we arrived, but we reached out to management and they quickly contacted the front desk and made one available for us to pick up right away. So I’d say communication was definitely fast and effective!
We were required to send jpeg copies of our drivers licenses and negative COVID tests for every adult guest before we could receive our check in keypad code, which we’ve never been asked to do and I thought was a bit weird. We blacked out our personal information on both, so it didn’t bother me that much. No late check outs or early check ins or any concessions of any kind can be made, so just keep that in mind as well.
All in all, would definitely recommend this unit for 1-2 persons. Great location, beautiful space. Great experience!