Cheriess AND her lovely home were the perfect embodiment of my dream of what hospitality should be! My room--each room is named after a European city or region--was called "Venice". It was small, the smallest room in the house, Cheriess said...but I LOVED it! I enjoyed starting each morning, after my meditation, with a cup of the delicious Konig (sp?) coffee that was provided! I set up the room so that I even had a makeshift "office", using the chair are my table, sitting on a pillow on the little floor carpet, and working on my laptop or writing in my notebook.
The house is perfectly situated for a short, VERY picturesque walk downtown, through a bit of jungle, a little bridge that give a lovely view of the ocean, and the restaurant-and-bistro district.
A perfect base of operations for delightful, tropical, not-too-fast-paced HILO and all the adjacent wonders!
xox