Welcome to the land of aloha! When I book places I look for the area I want to stay in and then find a nice-ish place to call my home base. Nikki's place checked all of my wants: comfy bed, nice shower, a/c, refrigerator, coffee maker, microwave. Getting to the address was easy w/ Google Maps and was just over an hour from HNL airport. Check in was easy (door open, keys inside). The plants were quite a bit overgrown on the path and this made entering/exiting the condo a wee bit challenging. But, the plants were eventually trimmed back and this made the procedure much more tolerable. The condo is down the street from a nice beach where we enjoyed watching the sun set and we collected lots of sea glass there. We were about 10ish min from Sunset Beach (a must see!), Goat Island (walk across a reef and sand bar to get there), Kualoa Ranch (Jurassic Park filmed there!) and maybe 25 min to Haleiwa (North Shore, downtown).
The power in our unit did go out quite a few times. Twice this was because we had some outdoor string lights on while the a/c was on. So we made sure to turn off the a/c when using the string lights. But at least three other times there was no known cause for the outage from our unit. We would have to message the host to reset the breaker because the fuse box was not in our unit. Most of the time the issue was resolved fairly quickly but one day it was out basically all day. The fridge was on the same fuse and so our food did spoil.
Other than that, everything was great! The positives of this place far outweighed the few hiccups we encountered. Be prepared for adventure as this place backs up to the jungle (giant snails, giant frogs). The hosts were great, the neighbors were very friendly and we had a great time. Mahalo Nikki and fam!