The view of this location definitely gets 5 stars. The view of the ocean from the balcony is the sole reason I rented this unit for our family vacation. The staff at the Royal Kahana also gets 5 stars. They were fantastic! Everything else about the unit, for our particular experience, was not good. Problems we had:
1) many pictures of the listing are old or not even of the actual unit. Specifically, more oversized sandbags have been added to the shoreline to help stabilized it, basically eliminating the beach in front of the building. If you are an avid gym goer, the picture in the listing is a stock photo of a gym. The actual gym is a small room in the basement with no windows, two treadmills, one stationary bike & one cable machine.
2) The unit needs updating. Having the stove & oven in use at the same time flipped the breaker. The sliding glass doors & windows need to be replaced. We were flooded out of the unit during a storm. It was not a pleasant experience.