The house is everything as shown and advertised in the listing: nice rooms and amenities, AC in every room, bikes and beach essentials and walkable distance to main Waikiki. If you are a guest who likes your host being completely hands off, you will be happy with the place and the stay.
I have enjoyed all my previous Airbnb stays, and unfortunately I had a worse than expected experiences due to poor hospitality of our hosts. My apology in advance for the lengthy list of cons that's coming next. First 3 are small things and I would have given 4.5/5 rating, but the last 2 issues really wrecked my Airbnb experience:
1) Washer and dryer had moldy smell, and dryer does not fully work. There were a lot of dusts covering the walls around the dryer area.
2) Host knows the exact number of guests staying, but there were not enough towels provided for each of us to switch even once during the 7 night stay. We had to unfortunately resort to running towels through the smelly washer, and hang them air dry.
3) Host was not responsive with msg sent on Airbnb, and not attentive to appliance issues: Had one room with AC not producing cool enough air. Host did not respond over 8 hours on airbnb, had to send private text messages. Host said to send help, we didn't see anyone and didn't get servicing confirmation from host and issue remains after 24 hours. Host later said service guy was sent twice. But the issue was never resolved. Our family member had to sleep in the living room with working AC during 4 out of the 7 nights.
4) After checking out, my husband shared pictures of the lint/dust covered walls in the laundry area and showing the dryer hose is disconnected which might contribute to why dryer was not fully working, and recommended host to repair. Host instead lashed at us and sent us nasty private text msgs
5) We tried to clean up as much as we could: washed all dishes, cleaned out the whole kitchen and fridge, took out big trashs. It was an early check out at 10am sharp, we ended up forgetting collecting trash from the bathrooms. There was a $250 cleaning fee already paid out up front, but the day after checking out host actually text messaged us ..."Just a note for future Airbnb stays would be nice if you could at least consolidate your trash. Especially if you have some higher level of education" ...
If you are looking for a warm and accommodating host who will make good local recommendations, I would not recommend staying here. And most importantly, we recommend communicate with hosts via Airbnb chat only.