Pros: The location is very breathtakingly beautiful, there is a hiking trail and some beaches nearby, there's a bus that takes you straight to Honolulu if you have change for the bus, the area is decently quiet, there are gorgeous wild peacocks walking around everywhere, the kitchen is very well stocked with an assortment of different utensils to cook with, there's a dishwasher, they have most home supplies that a person would need for a long stay, and the owners were very accommodating.
Cons: This place is very far out on the island. It's highly recommended that you know how to drive before booking here. I knew it was in a different part of the island but I didn't know how bad it is really was. I wasn't aware that knowing how to drive would be such a necessity for this area of Oahu. I was fine with purchasing Ubers to get around during my stay but there are a lot of times of the day where you can't even get an Uber because Uber drivers don't come to this area often. It took me a while to get used to but I was forced to learn how to get around on the bus. It can take between 2 - 2 1/2 hours to get to Honolulu from this area on bus depending on the time of day. This is place is also very strict. I thought at times the treatment was a bit unnecessary and it made me feel uncomfortable to some extent. The first day I was there I went out to take pictures and I had security haggling me like I wasn't supposed to be there. There seemed to have been a guest who complained about me harmlessly taking pictures of the mountains. I checked in and it still seemed like security didn't know that I was supposed to be there. What was even more frustrating is that this place is so strict that I wouldn't have been able to get on the property in the first place if I wasn't supposed to be there. There were many times where I felt targeted. Before booking my stay, I was unaware of the policy of not allowing guest to come after 12 if they are driving. I paid for parking even though I did not have a car because I had a friend who would come pick me up from time to time. Despite me paying for parking they would still make a big deal about me having guest over and would go out of there way to watch me. I told them that I didn't have a car but I have a parking pass. They thought that I was trying to steal two parking spaces. There was a night where my guest actually left before 12 and security decided to knock on the door to complain about my guest being there anyway. I was woken up out of my sleep to find a huge black guy and two other security guards at my door. It was very intimidating and the security guards was very unnecessarily rude considering that they were wrong about my guest not leaving before 12. I didn't understand why there needed to be some many security guards at my door either. They also didn't have my number on file for some reason and decided to call my emergency contact who lives in NYC. My brother who has severe kidney disease was woken up out of his sleep in NYC because they called the wrong number. I was called by my brother moments after the security guards left my door and was told that the security was speaking to him a very rude manner. He was not on the trip with me and didn't know what was going on. They were very aggressive and I didn't really appreciate being treated like that after spending so much money to stay out there
Side Note: This is no knock against the property owners either. As I stated before, they are very accommodating and made me feel welcomed. The gated community where this Airbnb is located is just extremely strict and I felt like there was a certain level of prejudice on the property towards me. You have to understand how uncomfortable that would make someone traveling alone halfway across the world feel. There's a 48 hour no refund policy on this Airbnb listing and I booked my stay months before arriving. I wish that all of the very strict rules were provided to me before I ever booked my stay. It would have made my decision on whether I wanted to stay here easier. I was given more information about the property only days before arriving. Overall, despite certain experiences that I had staying here, the airbnb was still very beautiful. These are good airbnb host