It is an awesome place to stay if you plan some time to enjoy the pools, water slide, and other amenities included at the resort. We did a morning sunrise yoga that was spectacular included for guests! For some reason a lot of eating places on Kauai close pretty early, so it was nice to have the resort restaurant, and it honestly wasn’t any more expensive than other restaurants on the island (we actually had breakfast there). It was a perfect location as we didn’t have to drive more than an hour to get to anywhere on the island. There were some airplanes you noticed, but they were not very disturbing. Luckily, the pools are NOT salt water, but are fresh water chlorinated pools (which was nice in contrast to being in the salty ocean). They do NOT have sand in them. Downsides of using through Vrbo, no linen/towel changes without paying extra, need to take out your own trash, and no kitchen/microwave of any kind. It is a hotel room without hotel services (except ones you never use, like TV cable; come on, I’m in Hawaii, I’m not going to watch TV). Overall, pretty amazing place to stay. Oh yeah, covid policy of Hawaii is as if there were never a vaccine created, and indoors to them means anywhere with a roof, so you may feel like you’re outside, but if there is a roof, they expect you to where a mask. The lobby of the hotel doesn’t have doors, so how can that be considered in-doors? It was great, I just felt like I was back in 2020, which was a time I hoped to never be reminded of.