Best Things Nearby:
Snorkeling 1/4 mile, grocery and drug store, VIEW is awesome, activities 7 miles away - very convenient

Best Things About the Resort:
Service, room - no bugs, pool is very nice, the shower, the two double beds in the 2nd bedroom.

Resort Experience:
It's a very nice place to stay. I'm not sure if I was in Kona Coast I or II but it was very nice. We had a unit close to the pool but without an ocean view (that is the only thing that would have made it better). They have everything you need (except muffin pans). The activity directors are not very helpful - the one downside to this resort. The security personnel are very nice. We really enjoyed our condo experience. Not a lot of activities for the kids - not as family oriented as others I've stayed in.

• Unit Type: 2 Bedroom
• Activities: Fair
• Amenities: Very Good
• Unit Satisfaction: Excellent
• Family Friendliness: Good
• Service: Excellent

Best Things Nearby:
Submarine ride, glass bottom boat ride, King Kamehameha Luau, great restaurants, Wyland Gallery.

Best Things About the Resort:
Close to the ocean, walking distance from Kona and shopping and tourist activities and places of interest. Quiet reort, beautiful and artistic "volcano" type jacuzzi, art-deco tile pool with fish and dolphin tile art.

Resort Experience:
This was a brand new resort, and the paint was barely dry in our room. It was elegant, sophisticated, in keeping with the Hawaiian culture, well-appointed, and thoughtfully furnished. There was a new CD/tap/radio console in the living room that looked retro and full of character. It was accompanied by Hawaiian CDs. How romantic!

The view from our balcony (a LARGE balcony) was spectacular. The ocean was just across the street. Our master bedroom included a welcoming old-fashioned (but brand new) claw foot Jacuzzi tub, double sinks, a gorgeous armoire, and Hawaiian accents throughout the rooms. The other bedroom was spectacular, as well. Loved the shower doors in both bathrooms. They were covered with bamboo! The washer/dryer in our unit was a welcome surprise to us, and every moment of our stay was magical.

This was our honeymoon, and we will probably alway compare future vacations to the beauty and elegance of our first vacation together! We can't rate this resort highly enough. A five-star rating falls woefully short. The people were so kind, as well. Our return flight schedule was changed because of terrorist fears and rescheduling after the September 11 attack on NYC. So, we needed to stay in Hawaii for an extra day (NOT a problem). The resort was so kind to find a place for us to stay for the extra night. We can't wait to go back!

• Unit Type: 2 Bedroom
• Activities: Very Good
• Amenities: Excellent
• Unit Satisfaction: Excellent
• Family Friendliness: Very Good
• Service: Excellent

Best Things Nearby:
Beach is right there, shopping (as they lost my luggage was great to find Wal-mart there) . . . within 5 miles.

Best Things About the Resort:
They left you alone as far as solicitation for timeshare goes, activities were arranged including hula lessons, lei making, etc.

Resort Experience:
We rented a car for the whole two weeks and saw the island from one end to the other more than once making our way to Hilo (a bigger town).

Great Fish Taco at Lulu's is a must. :)

Took a glass bottom cruise, went to swim with the dolphins, and saw the volcano at dusk with orange lava flow. Fantastic experience.

• Unit Type: 1 Bedroom
• Activities: Excellent
• Amenities: Excellent
• Unit Satisfaction: Excellent
• Family Friendliness: Excellent
• Service: Excellent

Best Things Nearby:
One of the best snorkeling beaches on Hawaii---KOHALUU BEACH---is only about 1 mile away. We loved being able to hop over there whenever we had a few free minutes.

Keauhou Shopping Center is right across the street from the resort, too. In it was a grocery store and theatre, as well as many other small shops.

The resort is also very close to the end of Alii drive so there's a little side street that leads right up to the main highway. That was very convenient for buzzing into Kona without the bumper to bumper slow traffic on Alii drive. That also made it convenient for heading down the coast.

Best Things About the Resort:
Location is probably the best thing about this timeshare, although even if it was somewhere else I'd still think it was great. I felt very secure and relaxing here. I also really liked that the units were well maintained and clean, as were the grounds around it.

Resort Experience:
The condo has an open floor plan with the kitchen, livingroom and diningroom flowing together nicely. The tv was built into the kitchen counter which was rather a neat use of space, but also meant it could only be seen from the livingroom. One wall of the livingroom was a mirror which also made the area look larger. The carpeting, furnishing, and counters where in shades of white and off white---and very clean. The diningroom table had a glass top. We had a lanai that over looked the golf course and the lanai had a lounge chair and table and chairs on it.

The kitchen was well equiped with everything including a dishwasher and washer and drier. It also had a microwave, plenty of dishes (all matching) and flatware. There were 2 containers of dishsoap and a small box of laundry detergent in a hostess pak along with teas, coffee, sugar, creamer, salt and pepper, and probably a few things I'm forgetting now.

The bedroom was large with a king sized bed in it and armoir with a large tv in it. The bathroom attached to the bedroom had a shower/soaking tub combination (something I really enjoyed). They supplied beach towels as well as bath towels. In fact, after we checked out, they let us keep a couple beach towels for the rest of the day and return them on our way to the airport (and use the pool and shower area in the complex).

The grounds were beautiful. There was even a botanical walk next to the main swimming/jacuzzi area. I'm not a golfer, but I think I would have been very pleased with the course if I was. The resort is quite large--like a regular subdivision. Parking got a little tough sometimes, even though you had to have a parking permit in the resort.

If you wanted air conditioning, it was extra---but only about $40 for the week. It is set up to only work if the sliding glass door to the lanai is shut---they won't let you air condition the outside!

(A note about the lighting in Hawaii!!!! Don't expect a red vehicle to look red at night!!!! The lighting is with yellow lights and the red truck we rented looked gray at night. Took awhile to find our truck the first night!)

• Unit Type: 1 Bedroom
• Activities: Excellent
• Amenities: Excellent
• Unit Satisfaction: Excellent
• Family Friendliness: Excellent
• Service: Excellent

We got a 1 bedroom condo here. It is on Alii drive---the main road along the coast of Kona, so it was rather noisy there. I'm not sure I would have liked staying there a whole week.

THe unit had a kitchen with a counter between it and the livingroom. In the kitchen were all the usual appliances, including a dishwasher (which didn't work). The dishes and silverware were a hodge podge assortment. The livingroom had a nice couch and a tv stand with a a decent tv on it. There was cable tv. There was also the air conditioner unit in there. Also in the living area was a small table and a couple chairs. The bedroom was right off the livingroom and had a large sliding door to close it off from that room , or open it up to it. That was nice for letting air conditioning into it. From the other door in the bedroom (towards the kitchen), there was a vanity area, then a bathroom with a tub/shower combo.

They do spray for bugs regularly, but we did see several tiny bugs in the bathroom area. I think they were getting ready to spray again.

I wouldn't consider it a dive, but certainly not a resort! For a family looking for something relatively cheap, a kitchen, and in Kona, it is probably ok.