The good sides: 1) location is convenient, close to restaurants, 10 mins to the beach. 2) the property management team is very responsive, which is much appreciated. 3) the river view is nice, though it’s very common in this neighborhood.
**** Cockroach Alert ****
The whole building has active cockroach population. Every day we fought with them and this greatly affected the whole living experience. The management team came spray for once, but the situation didn’t improve. One time it became really bad, we called friends to help us. We heard similar complaints from friends living in this building (Island Colony).
We also had an terrifying checkout experience. The staff was unprofessional, disrespectful and nasty— yelling f words at us and entering the apartment and filming us without consent. He insisted the checkout time was 10am while the Airbnb says it 11am. We checked out before 12pm with a beforehand notice, but was treated extremely harshly.
Lastly, the room is not as bright and spacious as photos suggest. The facilities are old and worn out. There are definitely better alternatives with the same price. Location is certainly a plus, but Waikiki in general is pretty small and walkable.
Many first-time visitors like us book this place for the location and nice photos, but after staying for a month, we can safely say that it’s way overpriced given the issues we ran into. With $4000, you can easily get a much nicer 1b1b or 2b1b in Honolulu. All our friends living in this building moved to other places after their lease ended.
We learned our lessons as inexperienced first-time visitors, so hopefully this review is helpful for future visitors.