Incredible! This is an amazing house in an amazing location! Let me start by telling you that I grew up all over the world visiting the most beautiful nature areas on the planet and that I have traveled extensively as an adult to more of the best nature places on earth. I have been an avid outdoors person for 50 years. So now that you know that I know what I am talking about, let me say that the location of this house is one of the best in the whole world! Hilo is a great little town, and it has all the amenities you need, but Hilo itself might not take your breath away, but the location of this house will! It is in the quaint little town of Honomu on the Hamakua coast, a short beautiful 15 minute drive to Hilo. Some days I drove back and forth to Hilo once or twice a day and it was very easy. The Hamakua Coast is stunning and worth every extra dollar you might pay to stay on the Hamakua Coast instead of in Hilo town itself. The Hamakua coast is the way Hawaii used to be 100 or 200 years ago. The small towns like Honomu still have the old buildings from the days that the sugar plantations were the heart and soul of the island life. When you stroll around the little town of Honomu or drive up and down the Hamakua coast, it looks like 1850 and you feel like you are living in 1850. The stunning nature and quaint towns are magical and will make your entire vacation one of the best ever! The house itself is also amazing! The House is large and spacious and very clean and comfortable. The views from the upstairs and the deck are breath taking! The sunrises over the ocean are incredible and the sunsets are just as wonderful! The sights and sounds and smells in Hawaii are not well promoted by most travel advisers so let me elaborate - The sights are incredible everywhere as I explained, but the sounds and smells are just as or maybe even more amazing! The sounds of the frogs singing at night are one of the most pleasurable experiences you will ever have - They are loud enough so you can enjoy their singing to you, but quiet enough so that you can work and sleep and relax - It truly seems like you are royalty and that the earth is coming alive to sing to you! This is a very rare experience to find even if you travel around the world, and this will be one of the most memorable experiences of your whole life. The smells are also unbelievable and indescribable - The warm tropical climate produces an amazing variety of sweet aromas that constantly blow to you via the tropical trade winds! These smells come from both the exotic tropical fruits and flowers - Just like the incredible sights and...