The location of this place was so convenient and the main reason for the 4 stars. 15 mins away from the OGG airport and other main stores like Target, Foodland, etc. The cool hipster surfer town, Paia was just minutes away with a ton of tasty food options and Ululani’s Shaved Ice. If going to the Road to Hana is on your Maui itinerary, then this spot is absolutely perfect as it is pretty much at the starting point of the Road to Hana. This place is also minutes away from 2 beautiful Maui beaches: Baldwin Beach Park and Ho’okipia (where you can see sea turtles nap on shore). It also right next to one of Maui’s very popular restaurants, Mama’s Fish House (which was very pricey but because we were so close we couldn’t miss it).
The place was what it looked like in the pictures. The furniture was very stylish. The bed wasn’t the best as you could feel the springs on every curve of your body but it still serves its purpose. Paolo provided a first aid kit which helped a lot especially from getting a couple scrapes from the Road to Hana. One of the other issues we did have was the trail of ants behind the TV and the kitchen which really wasn’t a big deal, however, on our last night there we saw a huge cockroach in the kitchen, and I mean HUGE. It unfortunately hid under the refrigerator before we could try to get it. After that, I was pretty much very paranoid, haha.
The last issue we had was the check-out time. On Airbnb, this place had a checkout time of 12pm but Paolo came knocking at our door at 10am while eating breakfast and said checkout was at 10am. Since we thought we had 2 more hours at the house, we had to scramble to clean and pack which made the last day of our vacation pretty stressful. I was so sure I had read 12pm for check out and as I was trying to reload the Airbnb page where it had stated a 12pm checkout it was oddly not working. However, I did manage to take a screenshot of it proving that checkout was at 12pm. Initially, Paolo didn’t understand where I could’ve seen a 12pm checkout and that he had to have cleaners come in. He told us to take our time but that he still couldn’t let us stay until 12. However, once I sent him the screenshot he then allowed us to stay until 12pm and said that Airbnb had made that mistake.
Besides all that confusion, the place was still pretty nice and Paolo was responsive. It was a good value for what we got for it.