PROS: The house itself was clean and accommodated our large family. The host was quick to answer any questions. The house is close to nice resort lagoons with free parking, when they aren’t full anyway. Washer and dryer with plenty of detergent and beach chairs were available. The rate seemed reasonable for 6 nights, but keep reading for the cons and our personal experiences.
CONS: The house rule is that we must park our cars in the garage. Squeezing two SUVs into the garage was a big inconvenience, especially when there are items on both sides of the garage wall. There was barely enough room for us to get in and out of our cars, and we are a small/average sized group of people. Sharing the driveway was also another inconvenience. The host family lives next door and their parked cars took precedence over ours. Three times we had to coordinate leaving and returning home. We had to wonder if we would be block off by one of their many cars. The house is on a busy and noisy highway.
THINGS TO KNOW: The house is very easy to miss, and we passed it several times the first 2 nights of our stay. The house is located on a busy and noisy highway, so keep that in mind if you’re a group of light sleepers. There are no curtains in the bedrooms to minimize the noise of speeding cars and police sirens late at night and early in the morning. Everyone was up early every morning around 6 AM from the noise. This rental is in Waianae and as first timers to Hawaii, most the tourist hot spots are in Honolulu, so every activity was a drive. There is only a right turn coming out of the house, so you have to turn around a few lights down the road for every trip out of Waianae and make loops every time we missed the driveway. There are no garage door clickers, so someone has to open and close the garage manually when leaving and coming home.