Excellent location. Gorgeous sunset views and close enough to town. Great saltwater pool. Neighbors are a bit nosey and even came out to tell my 5 and 7 year old that Hawaii laws disallow jumping in the pool. So I spent the next 2 hrs that day telling my kids to stop jumping in the pool. Fun, fun.
The apartment is spacious and the bed was comfortable. My dad slept on the pullout most nights and then decided the sofa itself was more comfy.
Most of the boogie boards were in poor shape. Understandably it’s “free” so I can’t complain much. The beach chairs are older and very heavy. In general the home is in a community geared towards seniors and the homes are older with older furnishings/towels/dishes/etc.
The main issue I had with this place is not that there’s no a/c anywhere in the unit but that the screens are not secure enough to keep bugs out. My kids woke up with mosquito bites that turned into welts. When I expressed my concerns to Stan he stated that perhaps they were bed bugs from the previous place we stayed (umm no) and that if it were his kids he would take them to urgent care to get checked out (for mosquito bites?!). I find this type of attitude distasteful. I did appreciate him telling me to go to target and getting whatever we needed to combat the mosquitoes but the fact that he continuously told me that mosquitoes can’t survive in Kona Bc we were on lava rock is insane and straight up incorrect. There were more mosquitoes in Hawaii then any other island we visited (Oahu and Kauai). We didn’t have an issue unless we were hiking which was expected in Kauai! When we went home we weren’t worried about getting bit up. So this is a perfect place if mosquitoes hate you or you are not bothered by bugs in general! My kids were screaming and crying 2 nights Bc of big bugs in our bedroom. Sigh. I live in NYC so bugs have been seen but are rare in our apartment.