Despite what the description on VRBO says, the condo is NOT in a quiet location. For instance:

1. A great deal of noise comes from the Tropics brew pub next door. For example:

• Delivery trucks with back-up beepers

• Garbage trucks

• Tropics employees’ break area clearly visible and audible through foliage 25 feet from condo decks – groups congregate here to smoke, talk, play rap music and laugh raucously at a picnic table and outdoor sofa they’ve set up on the property line. We could see and hear them and they could see and hear us.

• Patrons who congregate to smoke, talk, joke, and laugh loudly in the same area at the back of the Tropics.

• Cars in Tropics parking lot; very loud motorcycle.

2. The buildings in Vista Waikoloa are being re-roofed. Construction noise was a problem throughout our stay. For instance:

• Clanking and banging of metal, on the roof and when pieces were thrown on the debris pile below the condo.

• Hammering, drilling, etc on the roof.

• VERY noisy machine used to fabricate metal sheets – not just on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10am – 2pm, as reported. In fact, one morning the machine racket began at 8:00am.

• Construction crew often engaged in loud, boisterous conversations.

3. Golf course maintenance is noisy.

• Regular mowing of fairways.

• Equipment from other fairways running back and forth in front of condo on its way to maintenance shop.

In addition, contrary to the VRBO advertisement, the condo is NOT private.

• Employees and patrons of the Tropics next door can clearly see the condo decks through the foliage.

• Men on the construction crew regularly used the stairwell to go up and down, carrying tools and large sheets of metal roofing. The stairwell is outside the condo's front door, so we lost privacy when leaving the door open for cross-breezes (as per owner's request to not run the air conditioner.) The construction crew also used the elevator.

Other problems we experienced include small pieces of very sharp metal roofing material on the decks. Although we swept the decks regularly, the metal bits were always a danger to cut feet (as per owner's request that we shouldn’t wear shoes in the condo.)

Overall, we were very distressed with the noise and lack of privacy. Of the many choices available, we specifically chose this particular condo because it was advertised it as “Quiet and Private.” Beware! Brew pub next door, golf course maintenance, and roof construction make this a bad choice!