Aloha - we very much enjoyed being in Kauai, and your beautiful home was nicely decorated, spacious and stocked with the main necessities, and the view was really nice. The location was ideal in a very nice country club type of community in Princeville. The closest, walk-to-beach had a treacherous decent, but driving to an easy beach was not that far away and the cute town was really close by. It was hard to get used to not having AC, so we greatly appreciated the additional fans. But with keeping the windows open for cooler air, we heard the NeNe birds a lot, especially in the early morning hours and we heard many kids yelling and playing. We were given quiet times from 9pm to 9am, however the birds and kids started much much earlier.
For the high price of the rental, it was surprising to find so many rules on how to clean-up upon check out. From closing all windows, disposing of all trash in the unit, to taking the recycling to a specific location off-site, to not being able to use the provided beach towels, because the rules say that Kauai sand stains and if we stain a towel or anything, then there would be additional charges, but also being told to not bring excessive sand into the house, or there would be additional charges, then we couldn't even rinse sand off at the pool shower, because the pool was closed for maintenance, but they padlocked access to the hot tub and shower as well - I felt very aware and pretty nervous that I was in someone else's home, and so I couldn't fully relax.
In addition, upon first entering the home, we found many, many lizard droppings on the dresser tops and stairs. When I emailed about them, I was told that they are welcome in Kauai homes to kill other insects, which I do understand, however, I believe these droppings could have been cleaned up before our arrival. We followed the rules and requested a later checkout with more than 48-hours notice, but we were told no, due to another check in that afternoon at 4pm. Check out is really early, at 10am, so they have 6-hours to clean, but yet, so many lizard droppings remained. Plus when we started bringing out suitcases at 9:30am to leave, we found the house cleaner already arriving, and bringing new linen to the front door. So instead of getting to say a nice goodbye to our time there, it was kind of a rushed, eyes on you, march out the front door. Overall, I did enjoy the stay and the space and amenities, like beach chairs, washer and dryer, and dishwasher soap, but I feel the price was very high for the amount of rules and clean-up we were required to do, the animal droppings in our initial view, and the rushed exit.