Gabby was a very friendly and welcoming host. I get the idea that he and his family/team are really putting a lot into making their place better and better.
We loved the location and were able to walk from there to the red sand beach and Hana beach easily. We got up early one morning and had both all to ourselves.
Check in was easy. Nice roomy gravel parking lot and we were greeted at the office and pointed to our room, which opened with a keypad, so no fuss with physical keys.
There’s no A/C, but we found it plenty comfortable with windows open and fan on. There were two communal bathrooms with showers upstairs and at least one that I spotted downstairs. Wifi worked well and I also got plenty of Verizon LTE signal from our room. The room had at least 4 outlets, which is adequate for our needs.
There is a fridge in shared kitchen downstairs that you can just label your stuff and keep cold in there. There was a coffee maker with fresh brewed coffee when we woke up, so we helped ourselves to a couple of mugs and just washed them in the sink when we were done.
On our way out of Hana town we stopped at and walked around the Travaasa Hana resort and I’m so glad we didn’t splurge and stay there instead. We were not very impressed and it does not seem worth the rate, especially considering the experience we had at Gabby’s place. We’d stay here again and genuinely recommend it.