To start with something positive, the house is beautiful! We came here for our honeymoon, and we really really wanted to like it. My husband and i have stayed in many Airbnb’s together, and have never left a bad review, and we were so excited to splurge and stay in our ‘Airbnb Plus’ beachfront house. However, it was hard to enjoy our time there for many different reasons.
The house has many problems &, in our opinion, not worth the large amount of money that is equivalent to a luxurious vacation— & not worthy of Airbnb Plus status. Many window screens were broken and the house felt dirty. The hand soap was watered down (during COVID??). Because there was no AC, windows had to be kept open so it wouldn’t get too hot. But this led to bugs, critters, and LOTS of lizards roaming the inside of the house. BUT, this wasn’t the problem for us— we understand this is Hawaii and we’re surrounded by nature, but this was not disclosed in the Airbnb description and we would have liked to know this beforehand. Because of all the lizards/geckos, there was poop on the floors constantly, on our bedding, etc.
Also, we booked this thinking we were getting numerous rooms in the house, plus the small cottage in our yard. They’re even shown in the pictures for the listing. But that wasn’t true. If we’re paying for amenities, we’d like to have them included. Only one bed had sheets, and the others weren’t set up at all. This led to a problem when we had gecko feces on our sheets, we couldn’t change beds to another room, so we had to do laundry at midnight (not our dream honeymoon activity).
In conclusion, although a beautiful home with an amazing view, we just couldn’t feel comfortable throughout our stay. We tried really hard to like it at the start, but everything kept adding up and by the end of the week we were over it.