The cottage is incredible!!! My partner and I stayed for a month and worked remotely most week days. It was the perfect place to some days be lazy in and lay around or use as a home base to explore the island from. This is a great place if you want to experience a more jungly/low temperature stay (think no mosquitos and 70s high/50s low with both sun and rain).
Simply staying in the cottage is a wonderful experience because of the nature filled views from all of the many windows. The kitchen is small but fully equipped, no oven but there's a large and capable toaster oven, there's space to do yoga inside or outside, and a safe which we stacked three different mac book pro laptops and a digital slr in. Not shown in the photos is one workstation/desk area in the bedroom. The house has everything you need and there's a lot of information in various booklets if you need questions answered. Candice is very kind and quick to help out or check in if needed, the perfect host.
Volcano National park is a 7 min drive away, Hilo is a 40 min drive away, and Kona is a 2 hr drive away. Make sure to visit the local farmer's market on early Sunday mornings (get there before 8:30 before things sell out), eat a nice dinner at Kilauea Lodge, and go for a midnight hike on Devastation trail to see the lava flow. We would definitely stay here again when visiting the big island!