The room and location are just as the host describes. It’s dorm room setting close to UH Manoa and local buses. It’s a 20-25 min bus ride to Waikiki Beaches and other buses that can take you anywhere in town.
Check in was super easy. Room was clean, clean linens provided, bathroom and trash cleaned everyday. Host was always responsive with any issues and unfortunately I had some issues.
Other reviews of this room mentioned a roach and noise problem. I understand a pest problem can arise when living in a city or tropical environment. I didn’t see those issues on other rooms. Neither did I see the noise complaints with the other rooms. It was all specific to room 112. I figured, I’m a heavy sleeper I can sleep through anything. Wrong. The room is right next to the kitchen which could be divided by a sheet because you can hear EVERYTHING. water running, cooking, dishes, eating, you hear it all and it occurs past the “quiet time” and early in the morning. I brought this up to the host and he said he would take care of it.
The second time it happened was my last night there. Someone was cooking, cleaning, moving things around until 11:30 PM. I had to come out and ask them to keep it down as I was checking out in the AM. The guy apologized and didn’t hear any more noise.
Since the room is next to kitchen, you get roaches crawling in under the door. Saw this twice. Asked other guests or people staying there and no one said they had a roach issue. Thank God the following happened on my last night; I opened the mini fridge to put in a bottle of water and 2 roaches were inside just chilling! Nope!
I still would recommend Seaview but definitely not room 112. The host was responsive, it’s clean, close to public bus and it’s a great price for location!