I grew up coming to Hawaii staying in Waikiki and driving daily to the north shore. My wife and I wanted to stay on the north shore so we decided to book an Airbnb. Doug’s place was reasonably priced so we decided to book here.
The location is great. It’s in a quiet neighborhood above shark’s cove. The neighborhood seems very welcoming and was very comfortable to come home to every night. The house is right in the middle of everything on the north shore: 15 minutes from Kawela Bay, 20 from Haleiwa, only 10 min from places like Waimea and Sunset. This is a perfect location for north shore beaches/food/shops.
The house itself is a decent sized guest house directly adjacent to the main house where the hosts live. The property itself is gated with a coded gate, down a long driveway, tucked back in the jungle off a quiet street. I was a little surprised at how close the main house is from the guest cottage, maybe only 10 feet from each other, but still felt very private. The cottage was very clean, and had a great king bed. The kitchen was sufficient for us, but lacked what somebody looking to cook full meals would need. The bathroom was clean. There is no A/C, we didn’t take our chances and bought a portable A/C unit at lowes in Honolulu and just returned it when we left. Being in the jungle you won’t avoid wildlife/bugs in the cottage, but we just saw that as part of the deal. If you leave food out the ants will get to it, and we saw a few geckos in the unit throughout our 10 days, we thought it was cool!
Maybe best of all, we loved our daily greeting from the golden retrievers Cannons and Kaikane, we were really sad to leave them!
This was a phenomenal stay that we will definitely try to book again, we are converted to staying on the north shore of Oahu thanks to Doug’s awesome cottage.