We were shocked, absolutely shocked that everything we read about the condo was not even close to what we were expecting...I do not even want to tell you how I feel about this condo and location, but there is no choice in the matter.
Yes...It was totally beyond our expectations. The first thing that happens as you open the door to the condo is your jaw drops to your knees and then you walk in and go Holy S...t, I must be in the wrong place... this place is totally off the chart. Well thought out and well decorated. Melissa thought about every possible aspect to make it a pure delight to experience and enjoy from the moment you open the door. Heck we did not want to go anywhere but stay right there and chill, but the ocean did call to us after we discovered ..the "Secret Beach"..a tiny little opening in a wall that caught my eye driving by that opens up to a hidden jewel.. but you have to ask Melissa about that or it will not be a secret : ). The condo had everything you could want or need to walk in and stay... nay.. as if you walked into your own home and everything was just as you would expect things to be from goodies in the frig to condiments in the cupboard, pans and cooking tools.. Nothing is over looked.. It was so well equipped I thought we were in the wrong place and the owner would come home in any second : ). The view is like better than the picture but hardly what is really there since if you just walked to the left of the balcony, you can gaze on the awesome beauty of Haleakala, up through Kula and to the top... on a clear day that is... and then there is Kihei...a jewel of a town quite different from the rest of the island.. in a word more like Kailua on Oahu... and once you are there and after seeing the rest of the island, it is just the place you want to return to, to rest and enjoy and the condo made that the proverbial cherry on top of each day that seemed to fly by like a freight train out of control. But why am I telling you this when it is clear that the more people that come to Melissa's condo, the less chance I have of booking it again : ( and have to fight all you out there for a week at this lovely, delicious place that one can in one sense say home and in another wish it was, but we all must share the good things in life so we have good Karma. Book it and tell Melissa, Ela sent you... Mahalo Ipo for making my trip to Maui extra special.
Much Aloha.. ela