Had a good stay! Would I recommend this place? Probably not. Here are some pros and cons for others considering this place:
Pros:
-Great location! Literally less than 5 minutes walk to the Waikiki beach.
-The owners (or I believe property managers) were excellent on communication. Gave me the full details days before check in and we talked about early check in. She was able to keep me updated on when the cleaning would be done.
-Designated parking spot. This was a priority when booking at hotels were charging $50 a day to park there with no guaranteed parking space for you. I love that I can come back anytime and there is a parking space for me.
-Decent amount of space for just the two of us. I was worried the full size bed might be too small, but it worked for us!
-laundry mat on the same floor! We didn’t use it, but it was nice to have that option. You would have to pay $5 just for the laundry card (without any $$ on there). It’s about $2 to wash or dry.
-We were definitely not going to cook anything, so I didn’t care much what the kitchenette has to offer beside a fridge which I wanted to store lots of cold water bottles. The fridge was a regular size fridge! I was expecting a dorm room style one. FYI: they had a single electric burner.
-What felt like unlimited hot water! One issue I come across staying in a condo/apartment (and sometimes hotels) is that the hot water is not hot enough if everyone in the building is using it! We did not have that issue at all! Was very surprised by that.
Cons:
-Biggest one for us was the noise. The walls and glass patio door are basically paper thin. You can hear everything including the neighbors turning on the shower, dryer tumbling, music and drunk people until the am, and the worse - the garbage truck and construction work done at 4am.
-Shades are not blackout… not even close. I know this will be a problem for a lot of people so I wanted to mention this. It wasn’t a big deal for us as we don’t normally use blackout shades in our house.
-I’m not sure how much they’re paying the cleaning crew, but I would say that they should hire a new crew. It wasn’t filthy dirty, but they literally just keep what you can “see” clean. For example, under the bed and microwave are full of dust/crumbs.
My biggest concern was that the window AC unit was full of mold...
Hope this helps you decide if you want to stay here or not! And if the Cons aren’t a big deal for you, I think this place is actually decent!