My wife and I were spending time in Oahu after spending a week on the Big Island. We wanted a place in the heart of Honolulu and this place delivered! Check-in went flawlessly and the host answered all of our questions in an expedient manner (I wish they were all like these hosts). The advice they gave for arriving correctly at the unit's parking garage was spot on and very appreciated. Again, everything went flawlessly.
Upon accessing the unit, we were pleasantly greeted with a sparkling, well updated, and the unit was very clean inside. We immediately took note of the corner unit's balconies, the longer one (facing the ocean) had the beach chairs, umbrella, floaty, boogie board, and a couple of other odds/ends.
Unfortunately for us, we were staying during a fairly considerable rain and wind storm. One night we woke to the howl of wind and rain spraying coming through the open windows and had to shut them to get back to sleep. The next morning, we noted the boogie board and floaty were no longer on the balcony and were swept away by the wind. We immediately contacted our hosts to inform them and they quickly apologized and meant to ask us to bring those items inside due to the storm. There's a type of return air vent in the bathroom wall, nearish the ceiling by the shower... air normally flows into the unit and out through the vent... however, during the storm, the direction changed and blew in a plethora of dust bunnies from the vent. Thankfully the unit had a vacuum and we were able to clean most of it up - not sure of the ramifications, but if permitted, may have been nice to know if we could close the vent and prevent this form of blowback.
The king bed, was positioned wonderfully in this studio unit, unfortunately for us, we found the bed a little hard and uncomforting for our tests and our bodies definitely didn't get the rest they wanted - BUT - this would not persuade us from staying here again... and again! (often on vacation, beds don't sleep like those at home, just something we noted).
The only downside to our stay (I can't even call it a complaint) was the building had maintenance on our day of checkout, which included the water being turned off in our room from 9:00 am to Noon. This made for an inconvenient checkout experience making us get up and get ready (including washing dishes) a little earlier than we would have preferred. I did communicate this building maintenance information to our hosts, who promptly replied, sorry for the inconvenience and gave us an appropriate credit we didn't and wouldn't have asked for. I hope the building communicates better in the future to the owner/hosts, so they may be proactive in reaching out to their guests with this good to know information (as it may have potentially changed our booking - but in hindsight, we're still very pleased with our stay and experience.
This review has turned into a novel - bottom line, if you've gotten this far and considering this Airbnb unit for your stay in Waikiki - BOOK IT, you won't regret it!
To conclude, we found the location to be paramount to making Honolulu Waikiki walkable, access and egress to/from the building were easy and secure!