The best thing about this Airbnb is the location. Kahalu'u Beach is within walking distance and it's the BEST snorkeling place we found. Even when compared with Captain Cook and Hanauma Bay, we found that the fishes here have more variety. And since it's not so deep, you can see more details on the fish here. A couple of us were even that lucky to swim next to a Honu (green sea turtle) one afternoon.
The place also provides you with about 4 (more or less) sets of fins and some snorkels, 3 floating noodles, some boogie boards of various sizes and beach chairs, cooler etc.
The second best thing is the laundry! It's in the kitchen area. We never knew how convenient it was to have a laundry inside until we had it inside. Since we went to the beach almost daily, it's such a convenience that we can always wash and dry the clothes right away. The appliances look pretty new also (Washer, Dryer, and Microwave).
Another good thing is that the internet is pretty fast, about 100Mbps download. They have 2 full nice-sized baths. They also have pretty complete kitchen equipment and hair dryers (2 of them) despite saying on the listing that they had no hair dryers.
The worst part was when we came in. The white screen door outside was dirty and had some gecko's droppings. It was gross. I came from Southeast Asia so I know some gecko droppings when I see some =__=. Then the house had this damp smell, yuck. The non-master bedroom was especially musty smelling. I think it's because they stored the beach equipment in the closet here, and they weren't properly dried before they stored them. I found that the whole linen set in this bedroom smelled musty (although my friends said they weren't that bad). It's definitely not up to par to regular hotels. So, I had to wash EVERYTHING in that bedroom right after we arrived. After the wash, it wasn't so bad.
They only have 1 window AC in the living room, and fans in each room. We found that it's enough for us. We just turned up the AC and opened the bedroom doors to circulate the cold air.
This property is managed by a Property Manager company, and I found that getting in touch with them is a bit tricky and rather unreliable. They told you to download an app (ended up not using it at all) and they contacted me through at least 3 different phone numbers. It's quite hard to reach a person to ask things such as where to throw the trash, where to park etc. One time during our 5-day stay they erroneously changed the lock box code without letting us know. It took us some time to finally reach a person. Get their emergency number that links directly to a person. The other numbers are pretty useless for me, nobody seemed to call back or respond despite saying that they will call back.
The cleanliness of the dishes were questionable. But they had a dishwasher, so we just washed everything before we use it. This place was definitely not the cleanest airbnb we've been. You would see more gross thing when you try to open the windows. We also saw house geckos inside. We killed 3 small flying cockroaches inside (averaging about once a day). I'm not sure if they were cockroaches. They were smaller, so might be a different kind. But it still gave me a gross felling. But, this was my first time in Kona, so I'm not sure if it's hard to keep animals out in this very fertile land.
So yeah cleanliness was the bad part of this stay for us, and location and features were the best part.