Cook Hideaway is a precious jewel easily within reach. We're a newly retired couple visiting for the first time after decades of anticipation and could not be more pleased. From the moment we walked in the door to find a personalized welcome basket (containing among other local treats a bag of the superb Maui Chips we'd heard so much about), we were compelled to feel at home and blessed beyond deserts.
Accommodations are tremendous with all the amenities we hoped for... to park right outside, cook in, do laundry, sleep well, and take in life amidst a quiet residential neighborhood. Susan & Larry are perfectly deserving of the Superhost rating--immediately available (upstairs and digitally) if needed, but never intrusive. In addition to the living area, separate master bedroom and fully functional laundry, the kitchen is very well equipped with all the dishes and pans needed, including spices in the cabinets. There was no necessity to go elsewhere to enjoy great meals in the tropics.
The term 'Hideaway' is most appropriate, despite being in a neighborhood. Spacious distance between the houses on this hillside is unnecessary because of thick tropical vegetation loaded with colorful blooms. The slope of the land is so steep that even the roof of the neighbor's house is buried beneath native vegetation, over which the daytime view from the porch of the coastline is obstructed only with an abundance of busy birds amidst the papaya trees and plumeria branches. Breakfast on this porch is matched by sunsets over the ocean at dinner. It gets dark early in this side of the time zone. As soon as the sun sets, the sounds are overwhelming in the best of ways--a bold living serenade of countless frogs from what seems only an arms reach. The smallest step or turn of the head proves that you are in the middle of the 'orchestra pit' rather than a remote observation deck. If you are still on Eastern standard time you wake to a sudden silence of the frogs that gives way to a rooster's assertion that there is a new day to treasure. The aura is unique--a home away from home with all the comforts, no hassles and sounds of the tropics to redefine one's reality.