I cannot say enough good things. The place is an adorable apartment, very cute kitchen with stove, fridge, dishwasher. Ida is the woman who got us settled in and she was so great in giving us tips and being available at any time we needed her. She helped get us set up with a colleague who rented us his kayak for 50 bucks for the day to kayak the Wailua River. The host also left us with bananas, papaya, pineapple, granola, and delicious kauai coffee- such a nice touch! This fed us for breakfast all week. The bed is super comfortable with super soft sheets. Some people complained about the roosters but we put the AC on at night so we didn't hear them much at all and were up early anyhow. Location is in Kapa'a with lots of great restaurants nearby: we ate at Oasis-wednesday had amazing ukelele player, Verde-delicious!, Sam's oeanfront- such good fish, Pono market for plate lunches. All on recommendations from host.
Kapa'a is halfway between north and south so easy to get to either of them. The host lets you use bikes so we biked the coastal path-very nice but those beaches are not swimmable so we ended up going to north or south to swim/snorkel.
Really impressed and happy with our stay, thanks so much!!