This is a cozy, comfortable but rather tiny apartment, very nicely and colorfully designed with an upstairs bedroom/loft, perfectly adequate for the two of us. It is modestly secluded from a busy highway with a pleasant semi-tropical garden feeling surrounding the property. The beach is a short walk across the highway which runs through Kapaa. We much preferred the local atmosphere feeling as compared to, say, a Marriott hotel accommodation, but that's our chocolate compared to everyone else's vanilla. Being very early risers we prepared our own luxury breakfasts, not having to wait on the hotel to open access to their morning fare. Even so, we ate dinners out and sometimes lunch at various local establishments. Generally, I was impressed at the high standards offered by the restaurants. How strange not to see a Starbucks on every corner!, but I managed to find a wonderful espresso coffee house a few blocks up the street. Beautiful Hanalei is only about an hour's drive up the only highway. There is a one-way bridge before you get there with a courtesy rule that no more than seven cars cross before yielding to the other side. We never had any problems, and one of the local businessmen told me that from time to time a suggestion is made to widen the bridge, but, as it turns out, they like it the way it is. Life runs at a very slow pace, so be prepared to thoroughly relax...