The best way to do the big island!! Josh was a great host and was accomodating for all our needs. The tires had lost a lot of tread so we did have some difficulties on the dirt roads and car parks, we told Josh about this and he said he would get them checked out straight away. His communication was fantastic! We had responses within the hour every time. The bed was just a blow up mattress, which made quite a bit of noise whenever we rolled over but he provided the mattress pump as well so we were able to blow it up while we had the van. We did a 5 day stint around the big island, one of the main things to know is the beach parks that you get permits for don’t have lights, I would recommend taking a head light! We stayed at Kapa’a Beach park, a Hip Camp site near Hilo (farm to table on hip camp- highly recommend), Ho’okena and a night in an Airbnb in Kona to do the mantra-rays!
Highly recommend doing the South Point Cliff dive- a definite highlight!!
I can’t wait to get back to the big island and rent Josh’s van again!