- Roach alert -
This Airbnb stay was the third and last house we stayed in during a week-long vacation in Hawaii, and it left us with a bad experience. The house is not without its good points, for example it is very well located in the center of Hilo, close to the farmers market, shopping area, as well as great restaurants. The main issue with it is the poor cleanliness of the house. Similar to some of the other reviewers below, I found the common areas of the house quite dirty and also the furnishings were made of wood, rusted corroded, and generally sticky and dirty. We arrived on the rainy day amidst reports of an incoming hurricane. The moment we checked in and went to the toilet, we saw FOUR large cockroaches chilling out on the walls and floor of the toilet. These were the size of an adult thumb each, and able to fly. Our family has three adult men but all of them did not feel equipped to deal with four cockroaches in the same room. I called up the landlord, and after some negotiating on the phone, he sent his wife to come and kill the roaches. China lady, she comes in and knocks out three of the roaches with a slipper and flushed them down the toilet. The other one escaped out of the window but came back to haunt us later that night (my mom killed it). Later that night, me and my husband went to the nearby Walmart and stocked up on roach spray as well as boric powder. In conclusion, the house needs some major cleaning. It could’ve been my bad luck as the landlady explained that the roaches were out given the rain and incoming hurricane. However, I do think that the house was quite dirty and had not been inhabited for a period of time, and the landlord did not do his job of cleaning and thoroughly checking the house before we checked it. I would not recommend this stay at all given the stress and trouble we had to go through.