Affordable and right in Hilo, walkable to restaurants/coffee/bars. If you just need a place to crash at night it will work.
A few drawbacks:
-there is a bar around corner that plays live music until midnight or later. The apt doesn’t have windows that fully close so it was hard to insulate the noise
- 2 of the 4 nights we stayed there we overheard loud fighting/shouting right outside our apt around 1am
- the apt itself was clean enough but the hallway leading to it was not