This is a great place to stay, we very much enjoyed our stay. Great location for us to visit Volcanoes and our other Hilo adventures. The pictures represent the location well. The host was responsive in sending information when requested. Clean home, reasonably comfy beds, decent entertainment in the living area, and good sized bedrooms. The only (small) drawbacks were upstairs neighbors occasionally making noise (didn't bug us that much during our stay, but you knew they were there), and having catchment water in the home (to get safer drinking water you had to fill up free water from the public filling station about half a mile away). I believe the water situation is not unique to the house and is a feature of the area. The drawbacks were minor and there is much to recommend this about this place given the price we paid. For us it was a great deal! I would stay here again and recommend it to others.