I am not a person to write a whole review but after this amazing trip, I had to share!
If you’re anything like me, I travel for scenery and food. Brenda’s apartment was so very nice and clean, set up with with the two gorgeous balconies! The mountain side balcony had such a beautiful, serene view of the sunrise and the Oceanside view was nice and it was fun to look down to see how busy the crowds were.
I absolutely loved how private the building was, even while it was in the middle of everything! Seriously a 2 minute walk to Waikiki Beach and no need for a car at all unless you are doing big excursions. If you leave out of the front door, there is food truck parking lot with amazing Hula dogs, Poke, coffee and açaí bowls. The other door takes you to blue ocean eats, musubis , Korean food, and Maguro Spot. Everything we wanted to eat was within a ten minute walk or less!
We got Go Waikiki Trolley passes for our whole stay that pick up right At Waikiki beach and gives you tours and options to hop on or off, so we took those to and from the farmers market on Saturday, to Highway Inn and a big tour of the statues, ocean, Punchbowl, Ala Moana shopping! There is a pickup for each line every 30 minutes to an hour. Highly recommend the trolley and all the lines they have!
The location of this apartment is right behind the main strip, which we loved, because we got more of the local feeling that we wanted. There’s also some food trucks a 5 minute walk away for AMAZING Thai, empanadas and homemade dumplings. There’s actually a Shorefyre restaurant right under the surf shop on the corner! Above that surf shop is a wonderful little restaurant with great happy hour and outside seating as well! You won’t be waking more than a minute around the vicinity to pass everything you’ll need.
The laundromat in the bottom of the hotel is really handy! We didn’t think we would need it, but we ended up using it twice to get all the sand out of our towels and clothes that found their way back with us. The 24/7 convenience store was cute but only called 24/7 and not opened 24/7. That was fine though, because there is an ABC store on every turn!
Sorry this is so long, we had an amazing time and wanted to share how much fun we had and what a great find Brenda’s place is! Mahalo and aloha!