Beautiful Rain Forest Retreat
This home has amazing details like carved wooden doors and shoji screens. The location is very private and the rain forest outside is lush and full of birdsong day and night. The house was very clean when we arrived. We were very comfortable – one of our party was working remotely during the morning on the lanai with the soothing sounds of the birds. The kitchen is well equipped, but could use leftovers storage containers as previously noted. Also, we would have appreciated a gas grill. We also could not get the propane heaters to light, but we did use the electric heaters in the bathrooms. To use the fireplace, you have to buy your own wood or fake logs. Our main problem was the lack of instructions for using the house alarm. It went off immediately when we entered the house, and there were no instructions on either how to disarm it or reset it. We called the property management company, and the person who answered tried to help us because she has a home alarm system (we don’t) which we appreciated. We would definitely recommend it to any friends going to visit the Hawaii Volcano National Park as the entrance was just 10 minutes from our house and overall we loved the house.