The Ginger Bread House Review:
If you are looking for a nice, quiet and safe neighborhood right by the Kahala Beach then look no further. You and your family and friends will have plenty of space to spread out and receive all the comforts of home.
The house entrance has two private gates to enter and exit to get into the house, and it’s a nice location because it is within a short 2 minute walk across the street down a somewhat sandy alley to Kahala Beach. You can enjoy the ocean breeze and walk left on the sandy beach for about a mile, all the way up to Kahala Resort. There are two small channels of water to cross through which is no problem because the water is usually only up to your knees depending on the tide. We walked there practically every evening during our month stay. Some woke up early before sunrise and walked it in the morning.
The layout of the house is nice for families and/or for 4 couples. Air conditioning and fans in all rooms. Comfortable beds, cozy comforters and nice pillows.
The Garden Suite was my most favorite room. I started out in the Fountain Suite on the ground floor by the kitchen, and after about ten days, I was able to move up to the Garden Suite for a week (which I loved the most), and then into the Cathedral Suite.
The Garden Suite is bright and cheerful and has the beautiful stained glass window. I had my coffee out on the balcony every morning which was so lovely and peaceful. I brought two chairs out on the balcony and was able to look out at the beautifully landscaped tropical backyard, swimming pool, and fountains. When you wanted to use the screen door at night, it was nice to get the fresh tropical breeze while you slept and listen for the birds and doves to coo.
Right outside your door (on the same floor as the Garden Suite) you have full access to the main powder bathroom which is a toilet and a sink. You practically have it all to yourself since it is closest bathroom to your bedroom, but occasionally you will end up sharing it with others in your group because it is also the closest bathroom to get to from the kitchen, the dining room nook, the family room, and the front and back yard. When you want to take a shower, you will be sharing a bigger bathroom a few steps up the hallway with whoever stays in the Cathedral Suite. It has a very nice shower head. So if you are using the Garden Suite, you will use that bathroom for showering.
Down on the ground level floor, directly underneath the Cathedral Suite is the Fountain Suite. To get there, you go into the kitchen and down a couple steps. This room has a very comfortable queen bed. Staying in this room gives you a sense of privacy and it has its own bathroom and shower and two exterior doors to get to the back yard where there are two water fountains, a pool, etc. You can walk right out onto the grassy backyard and head directly to the pool. You can grab a cup of coffee from the kitchen and sit right outside your bedroom and enjoy the beauty. There are two comfy chairs. Inside the Fountain Suite, there is a small laundry room tucked down a step through a short door into the crawl space and I call that area the basement area. The washer and dryer there and are nice to use, but be careful not to hit your head on the short ceiling doorway when stepping down into that room. Ouch! We hit our leads a couple of times and learned real fast. Or at least some of us learned faster than others. Haha. There is plenty of clothes storage and dressers in the Garden Suite and it is pretty quiet. It does kinda have a basement feel and basement scent to it, but it worked out well for those of us who stayed there. There is a queen size hide-a-bed that was so so as far as comfort goes. Not the best and not the worst for a hide-a-bed. But if you don’t need it, it looks nice in that room. Maybe best for kids who can sleep on anything. You know how that goes.
I never stayed up in the huge master suite at the very top of the upper stairs, but I was told it felt very nice and luxurious. And that the bathroom was amazing. It sure had a lot of closets to store your clothes.
We had plenty of towels and beach towels to use and we did our own wash to keep up with supply and demand when needed.
We enjoyed cooking and making tropical drinks in the kitchen. It seemed to be supplied sufficiently for all of us.
We really enjoyed the covered lanai outside and spent all of our happy hours and dinner time hours there. We played cards practically every night out there and when we needed to keep our talking and laughing level down at night, we moved into the dining area by the kitchen. The back yard was amazing!!!
The pool was a nice feature to have. I bought a floaty single air mattress and floated around in the pool all the time. I love it! At night the Ring lights do go off more often than we would have preferred but we understand the reason for them, so we didn’t complain.
We loved having the cross breeze in the family room so we opened the front Dutch top door and the exterior back door whenever we were home. We did not have a problem arming and disarming the alarm system. It was easy to see exactly which door or window was left accidentally open that needed to be closed in order