Hale Gediminas is as perfect as you can wish for staying at Big Island. The room is spacious, clean and the furniture aesthetic. There is not only a lot of equipment available (snorkel gear, beach towels, beach chairs, sunshade and even boogie boards if I remember correctly) but you can also enjoy a nice outdoor kitchen where you can find a gas grill (great for grilling local fish!), refrigerator and other stuff like a toaster or even a mixer. Next to the kitchen you can enjoy your meal with a nice view at the beautiful garden.

The accommodation is located around 45 minutes south of Kona and in Captain Cook you can find the next supermarket. You can easily drive to the south (green beach etc.) or to the Volcano, but you may have some traffic when driving in northern directions (beware of school buses!). Altogether you have a good starting point for your daily program but do not understimate the distances in Big Island (and keep the ridiculously low speed limits in mind...). There is also a beach after a three minute drive down to the ocean which is very nice in my opinion. You do not find any showers there but instead you can go snorkeling on the "house reef" to the right hand side. There are also some small "canyons" you can explore when you do apnea.

Daiva & August obviously enjoy meeting new people and giving them advice on what to visit on their beautiful island without being obtrusive. In fact you feel more like an old friend instead of a guest. Unfortunately we had a very tight schedule so we were getting up early and coming home late so we could not get as much in touch with Daiva & August as we would have wished.

To sum up, it was a perfect experience to stay at Hale Gediminas which I can strongly recommend to everybody. We would love to stay there again!