First off, the positives: beautiful Hawaii, perfect snorkeling and turtles right off the beach, property was expertly maintained by a tireless crew (super friendly), mango tree out in parking lot provided the best mangos daily, nice big kitchen, some extra beach toys left behind to use. Gorgeous lawn to relax on, shower to wash beach off with.
Things I was misled with: the condo is in the back corner of the property. The only view you have from the condo is of another condo. Top lanai has a corner of a view of property and ocean, pictures of beach are misleading. The landscape of the beach has changed. One wall is crumbled and the other has been replaced, the beach is MUCH smaller than the pictures due to erosion and there are large sandbags on a portion of the sand that take away from the ambiance of the beach.
We arrived on a Sunday and found the master bedroom’s bed was still stripped and there were no sheets to be found. The downstairs pullout bed was also missing sheets. I spent over an hour trying to call someone with the condo and then another hour on the phone with VRBO. VRBO or I could not get a hold of anyone. Not the way you want to spend your first day in Hawaii. We slept on towels the first night. Steve got a hold of us first thing Monday morning and helped us out.
Please don’t expect to sleep on pullout bed, it is old and flat, you’ll be sleeping on bars and springs.
Overall, we enjoyed our trip. We do wish they were more forthcoming with the more recent photos. We planned on getting married on the beach but there were no good angles for pictures. One side had an exposed underside of a removed wall and the other had large sandbags. We still married on the lawn but wasn’t the same. The picture of the “top lanai” is not a picture of the lanai but of that view in the far left corner of the lanai. (Would have been nice to know when I saw it).
Can’t say enough about the maintenance of the property. The landscaping was beautiful and the crew were ALWAYS emptying trash, cleaning the area and tending to landscaping.