After traveling to HANA MAUI in the mid 90's, i'd grown accustomed to landing at OGG, renting a car, hitting MANA FOODS to get supplies , and driving for two hours to the most amazing rainforest and peaceful jungle living at my friend's house that he built over the years on a 5 acre macadamia nut farm that he bought after falling in love with the town when on vacation one year. I hadn't been back to Maui for 7 years due to family responsiblities that took all my concentration and energy during that period of time. Finally, at the last minute in June, i booked a 6 day trip to the island , the rental car (from Budget, who are always awesome there), and assumed i would be able to stay at my friends house as usual. i soon found out that not only was my friend's house in hana out of commision due to some plumbing issues, but there were no rooms or houses or accomodations available in hana at all for the 4th of july week, even on AIRBNB. after much searching with very little bandwidth leading up to the flight, i decided to book a simple room in a two bedroom condo in Kihei which is right next to the airport for one night, so that upon arrival, my girlfriend and i would be able to crash for the night while also looking for accomodations for the following 5 nights on Maui. (see my other review on maui during this trip which preceeded my finding Bonnie's amazing guesthouse for the final 4 nights of the trip). suffice it to say that the flight and evening arrival, along with baggage, car rental and comparatively short drive the the condo in Kihei for night number 1 left me so wiped out that we decided to commit to a 2nd night at the kihei condo crash pad, and take an afternoon researching airbnb for a hopefully awesome place to spend the majority of our time on the trip. airbnb gave us about 18 options for places to stay during the dates we needed but none of them were anywhere i knew very well. we got down to a final choice which was a stone's throw from the start of the HANA HIGHWAY which would make it the shortest time possible to drive to HANA every day if we wanted to spend most of our time there, but not actually staying overnight. BONNIE'S abode was the 2nd choice for us because it was described as a room in a shared house and bathroom and kitchen as opposed to an entire small guest house at the other place we wanted. remember, we had to find a place to stay for the rest of the trip but only had 20 hours before we had to move out of the place we were currently staying . i submitted the request for housing choice number one and waited, hoping to hear from the owner...