Mixed review: The good: Location is great if you want to be close by to the beach and downtown Waikiki for convenience but not in the madness of the center. It’s a lovely short walk down to the beach and the availability of parking is a big plus. The view from the condo is lovely. Communication and logistics were all great. The availability of very nice beach chairs/umbrella/cooler as other guests noted is great and much appreciated. While a little tired the facility is not unappealing and the staff and common spaces were all fine. The down sides: these were two fold and both would make me not stay again: First, while the space is clean, there is an overpowering and frankly nauseating smell of whatever cleanser is being used on the linens that permeates everything. It was so bad I couldn’t sleep. I am not super sensitive to smells in general and we had another group staying in a different unit in the same facility; when I tentatively asked them we all got laughing because it turns out both groups had been borrowing pool towels downstairs to cover the pillows to try to minimize it because everyone in our group had the same issue. So apparently it’s whatever is being used throughout the complex but it is really bad. I still have it on my clothes. Weird and really awful. The sheets were also cheap and not of good quality; we actually wound up buying new sheets hoping to eliminate the smell and brought them home.
Second issue is that I had not realized when I booked that you could book the same unit through the hotel; my price on Expedia, once adding all the extra air bnb charges, price would have been approximately $500 cheaper for 4 nights had we booked through the hotel as our friends did. Parking and beach chairs are nice but not worth that much. Hence the low grade on value.