We’ll start with everything good. The location is lovely. You 100% need a vehicle since it’s about 30 minutes or so from Hilo and most shopping places, but you’re fairly secluded and the scenery is beautiful.
The water here is all catchment water, so super filtered and very few (if any) chemicals, so it tasted great. It also made our hair (yes my husbands too!) SOOOO soft. And the water pressure from the shower was AMAZING! The water also heated up extremely fast which surprised me. The shower is huge and o honestly couldn’t get enough of that.
There’s plenty of space in the house, and pretty good sized kitchen, all basic kitchen stuff you could need (except a regular spatula?). All in all, for the size of the house it’s a great spot and we’ll worth the price. Our friends ended up not coming with us, but with 3 bedrooms it would’ve been easy to accommodate a group.
Now onto the drawbacks.
The beds are super uncomfortable. That’s a huge drawback for a lot of people so I figured I’d mention it.
There’s no heat/ac, although it didn’t really matter because the weather here is (or at least has been) pretty much perfect the whole time. We opened all the windows and we were almost always comfortable regardless of the temperature or time of day.
Lastly, and I’d like to preface by saying that I always clean up after myself at airbnbs out of simple curtesy, the checkout procedure.
They are strangely specific about the way they want you to clean up after yourself. You have to wash, dry, and put away all dishes before you leave. If you have more than a couple bags of trash you have to haul it off yourself, you can’t leave more than 2 loads of laundry that need washed (so if more than one room is being used you almost HAVE to get up early and wash your bedding before you leave).
I assume if you don’t follow these instructions another fee will be charged? So I guess I just don’t understand the point in having to pay a cleaning fee upfront (which you do) if you are required to do so much of the cleaning yourself before you leave. Just seems weird to me to make it a requirement.
All in all, the benefits of this place outweigh everything else. The location is good, the scenery is beautiful, the house is lovely, the water is amazing, and it’s large. There really is a lot to offer here that makes it worth it.