This is a great location if you are looking for a place to stay in between lots of activities. It’s about 3 blocks away from Waikiki Beach (~7 minute walk) and there are a wealth of restaurants within a 10 minute walk. The area was always packed with people, but that’s what you get in Waikiki.
The host and I had a little trouble with the key handoff, but she was incredibly accommodating and drove about 30 minutes to come deliver me her backup key.
My only knock on this place is the parking: there is none. If you rent a car from the airport like we did then you’ll be in trouble. We were fortunate enough to have family a few blocks over living in an apartment, and they let us (illegally) park in their parking garage which we thankfully didn’t get caught doing. If we hadn’t, we would have been forced to park on Ala Wei Blvd. (basically impossible) or find parking on some of the side streets and pay $6 every 2 hours to extend the time until 8 each day.
This is NOT the place you want to stay if you plan on driving around the island, even the host suggested we Uber around but we had unfortunately already made plans to rent.
Everything else was awesome, I would highly recommend as long as you don’t need parking. Otherwise, probably grab a hotel instead.