I got the room right beside the kitchen, I do not find the sound of people cooking is disturbing. It's clean and the location is very close to the Univ Hawaii at Manoa, there are buses around. Regarding other review about the cockroach, it's the small one, I thought it's big as in Indonesia, it's very rare but I saw once near the door.
In general, I give 5 stars as everything was prepared well. Oh, if you want to use laundry/drying machine, prepare 6 quarter dollar coins, and detergen by your own.