The good: Fully furnished with a great kitchen. The apartment was neat, tidy and very homely. Rayshel was very prompt with her replies and very helpful.

The bad: When we arrived at the main door, there was a huge dead cockroach outside the door. I didn't think much of it. When we were inside, we were excited about the kitchen so we started to open the cabinets to check things out. A cockroach ran out. Then I saw more. I wrote to Rayshel, thinking that maybe it was common to see cockroaches in Kona and I was just being a wuss. But she assured me that it wasn't normal and she never had a cockroach problem ever. To cut the long story short, we basically found cockroaches in the bathroom, on the tables, in the bedroom, in my hair when I was watching tv... I wasn't going to write this review because Rayshel promised that she would get the apartment treated for pests. But on my last night there, a cockroach crawled up my leg when I was in bed. We spent the next half hour hunting down that cockroach. We pulled out the bed, and found several dead cockroaches. We couldn't sleep well all night. I guess you can say that it was the last straw for me.

I wished something could have been done about the cockroaches when we were there, because we spent 4 nights in the apartment, and were plagued by cockroaches right from the beginning. Rayshel explained that she wasn't in town to assist us, but being plagued by roaches for 4 days is enough to make us disgruntled guests.

To be fair, IF there wasn't a cockroach problem, this would have been a perfect beach getaway home, and I would still recommend it as long as the pest issue has been dealt with.