My family stayed for a month at Tongtong’s place. We had an infant with us.
Location: center of Waikiki. Very convenient. Walkable distance to many shopping center and restaurants. Right next to the Ala Wei canal for a nice walk
2-3 minutes to bus stop (a shop very close to it sells the bus pass if you do not want to keep carry changes). 10-12 minutes walk to the beach. 5 minutes to the Royal Hawaii Center, 4 minutes to the International Market.
Room view: tall enough to see it all. Ocean on the left side, city view and canal in the front, mountains on the right side
Family with kids: they can provide a pack n play (I brought my own pack n play sheet). They also provided me some extra towels per my request because baby can be massy
Parking: find your own. Free public parking alone Ala Wei but find one can be competitive, we had some good luck one day, but not the other day. Certain days the car has to be moved away before 7am
Room: dining and bedroom are in one space, a bathroom, a kitchen, and a balcony. The room is very close to the elevator. It is close to the trash chute but not that close to smell it :)
Kitchen amenities: cooking pans and pots, bowls and plates, glasses and mugs, cooking tools, and utensils. Microwave, refrigerator, some seasoning, paper towel, dish soap, and dry dish rack. No oven. No filtered water and ice maker in the refrigerator. There are two small ice makers in the freezer. We bought bottled water
Bathroom amenities:shampoo, body wash, toilet paper, hand soap
Room amenities: a queen bed, big tv with a good amount of channels (we watched a lot of tv channels, and used the HDMI to connect to the Mac for some other shows). A big couch for comfortable sleeping. Many room lamps, dining table with two chairs, AC, a tv stand with many draws, a bed stand with 3 draws
Balcony: a small couch, a small table, a hammock chair. Some pool stuff (we did not use, I think pool noodle and surf board??)
***very nice view from the balcony day and night, like sunset. However people smoke often and some days unknown water pouring from top floors. My husband did work in the balcony for a few days then decided to not do it anymore.
Laundry: not in the room but in the building (so we used our luggage as the carrier when we go to do laundry). Paid washer and dryer. The room provided a little laundry detergent and I brought my own
Building: scan to get in so can be a little safer than other places. Security and front desk are on site 24/7. Mailbox. Free Pool and jacuzzi, free Sauna, free to use beach chairs, paid laundry mate, free to use ice machine, paid convenient store, and a free small public library (no one manage, a book shelf only). Very quick elevator, and several of them so no long waiting. Since the room is on a tall floor so the grocery shopping can be challenging (unload the car and bring groceries to the room, especially a large amount of groceries or heavy water and soda), but the building does provide a cart (like the hotel one) to help. The building is well managed with a great communication with flyers, make sure to read them. (During our one month stay, the water was shut down for 3 hours one day and the trash chute was shut down for about 3 times, all have an ahead communication through flyers)
Communication: tongtong is very good with communication. Sometimes, feel free to message her again as a reminder if no reply.
Self check in and check out.