I’ll start off this review by saying that this home is absolutely beautiful and the pictures are accurate. Although I do understand the bad reviews to an extent, I encourage everyone to take them with a grain of salt! We didn’t have an issue with critters - unless we accidentally left a sweet crumb then yes you’ll get ants. There was a cockroach in a room, but this is Hawaii and in the country! This isn’t a 5 star hotel in Waikiki! There are no locks on the doors, but we felt comfortable leaving because there was a gate, the home was on the back side of the property, and there were other occupants on the property. But I understand if others wouldn’t be comfortable with this. We left the home for 4-6 hours each day we were there (3 days total) and nothing ever went missing or felt suspicious about anything.
There are 2 homes on the property, the home at the front of the property is a 2 story that’s being rented out currently (by really friendly people btw!) so if you’re expecting complete privacy/don’t want to share a property, you won’t get that here.
We arrived at 3pm and were shocked when we realized it had not been cleaned. The previous party left the place absolutely trashed. After getting in contact with Arish and Shelby, we were able to work something out. They were very apologetic and worked with us.
If this happened in Waikiki, we probably would have just found other accommodations, but because we were in the country and it was past 4pm plus we had a bigger group that was the last thing we wanted. And I’m glad we stayed. This place was absolutely beautiful!!
Side note: you SHOULD NOT swim in the beach area behind the home (shown in pics). It’s dirty. But we did take the kayak’s out :)