I've yet to stay at an Airbnb with such an attentive and thorough owner. George thinks of everything, and it didn't feel like staying at rental, it felt like staying at a friends place. The owner left a massive and custom guide book that felt like having a concierge in house. Based on his own personal experiences over his times in Maui, George has written an extensive guide so you can drink, dine and tour like a local. "What do we want to do for dinner? Let's see what George says!" "Anyone know where we could grab a good Happy Hour? Check George's book!" Rinse, lather, repeat. This is especially helpful since the COVID pandemic. Professional guide books are outdated and social media sites such as yelp, tripadvisor, etc are unreliable. George even sends an extremely extensive and detail oriented guide 14 days prior to your trip to make passing Hawaii Covid guidelines a breeze. This was a major stressor for our group prior to departure, but George made it very simple.
The condo is centrally located in Kihei, a short walk to some of the best restaurants and an easy jaunt to the beach. Everything you could ever want to use for the beach is in unit. (boogie board, snorkels, beach towels, beach chairs, beach toys, beach umbrella, etc) We never had to rent anything to maximize our vacation, it was all in unit! Many of our friends staying in other airbnbs spent the trip sleeping in sweat. Not the case here. They recently installed a commercial sized A/C unit in the main room along with a unit in each of the bedrooms. You can tell that they treat this condo as much more than a rental but as a vacation home for themselves and their family. We also received a gift bag on arrival along with a semi-stocked fridge! The biggest endorsement that I can give for the cleanliness of the unit is that this is my first Hawaiian vacation that I haven't run into a cockroach at the place we were staying (This is our 5th trip to Hawaii, so that's saying something!)
I can only describe in so many ways the amount of thought and care that the owners have put into this condo. We highly recommend staying here.