Kolea is a great location and as far as I know the best place to stay at Waikoloa Beach area. It has a fabulous pool and location that is actually walking distance to the beach - just walk to the pool, then through a gate and a short walk to A-Bay Beach. Its really about as good as it gets for A-Bay and other nearby locations if you want a condo in lieu of a hotel.
The kitchen is very well equipped with everything you could need as we cooked nearly every meal at home in the unit and it went really well. Do your shopping at Target, Walmart, Costco - Queens Market nearby is quite a bit more expensive.
Kolea is A rating overall as we have stayed here 3 times in recent years at various units, this unit is a A- or B+ in my view due to the below.
The only complaints I have are:
- The elevator was not working and is kind of troublesome with an infant and an elderly person in our party. We made it just fine without it, but it would have been helpful on a few occasions like moving in, moving out, and just when folks were tired.
- A tv in the main bedroom didn't seem to work - although we did not investigate it much in terms of what was wrong with it; in the living room we could not log out of the netflix account that was signed in - we tried a bunch of times too.
- The living room could use a larger couch or another comfortable chair to sit in as the one chair is not very comfortable.