The good:
-Epic balcony view. You can see brightly colored fish and turtles riding the waves as they crash in. We also saw spinner dolphins putting on a show and a canoe race. Very cool.
-5 min walk to downtown Kona, pretty much unbeatable
-Great sunsets at the pool area
-The complex is very respectful, clean and generally quiet
-Parking is super easy and free
-As advertised—older, clean unit and a solid value for Kona
The potentially bad:
There is nothing the owner can do about this since it’s all public land, but probably good to know that there were homeless people sleeping on the adjacent beach every night, ranging from 3-15 people that I could see. The first morning I only noticed it when we had coffee on the beach as the folks were along the back rock wall, but the last night it was closer to an encampment with a handful of tents, an argument and some trash left behind. We shut the door and couldn’t hear anything inside the unit then, but probably good to know you will probably encounter homeless at the public beach that the unit overlooks.