The location is 10/10 for the price you pay. The room faces the mountains and is the farthest from the elevator so it is very quiet. It is exactly as the pictures show. It is ~7 minute walk to the beach and there are a bunch of parking garages around (we rented a car and didn't use it because the place is so central to everything). Restaurants and gift shops are only a few hundred feet away. Easy check in and check out. Free snorkeling gear for one person. However, the mattress was quite hard and did hurt my back to sleep on. If you are planning on not spending a lot of time in the room and exploring Waikiki this room is perfect! There was construction going on in the building next door but we could not hear anything while in the room.