Holiday Inn Express & Suites Kailua-Kona, an IHG hotel
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Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Kailua-Kona is an excellent choice for travellers visiting Kailua-Kona, offering many helpful amenities designed to enhance your stay.
Guest rooms offer amenities such as a flat screen TV and air conditioning, and guests can go online with free wifi offered by the hotel.
Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Kailua-Kona features 24 hour front desk, to help make your stay more enjoyable. The property also boasts a pool and breakfast. If you are driving to Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Kailua-Kona, parking is available.
Nearby landmarks such as Ali'i Drive (0.1 mi) and St. Michael the Archangel Church (0.1 mi) make Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Kailua-Kona a great place to stay when visiting Kailua-Kona.
While in Kailua-Kona, you may want to check out some of the restaurants that are a short walk away from Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Kailua-Kona, including Kona Brewing Company Pub & Brewery (0.5 mi), Big Island Grill (0.1 mi), and Umekes Fishmarket Bar & Grill (0.6 mi).
There is no shortage of things to do in the area: explore popular art galleries such as Kona Henna, Lava Light Galleries, and Trudy's Island Arts.
Enjoy your stay in Kailua-Kona!
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Good things - the staff were really friendly and helpful, especially those refilling the buffet breakfast. The breakfast was complimentary each morning that had lots of choice. The location was good. Room was large, nice Dove toiletries in the bathroom. Useful computer room where you could print stuff for free.
Negative - no views from the room - ours overlooked the car park! Our room had poor lighting - no central light only lamps and because the room was decorated in dark colours, it was a bit gloomy! Sofa was a bit stained.
The main reason we chose this hotel is its location and it was perfect, only a couple of minutes' walk to lots of restaurants and shops, including the Kona Marketplace and the Kona Inn Shopping Village, where we went several times for drinks and dinner (Kona Inn Restaurant, Kona Canoe Club) while watching the sunset. It's especially good to be able to walk to the center of town, including the pier (less than 10 minutes), because the traffic in and near the center is pretty bad nearly all day long due to roadwork, etc.
The only slight inconvenience was that the breakfast room was occasionally overcrowded, but then we shared a table and talked to some interesting people that way. We enjoyed seeing the families with young children. The breakfast staff was clearly overworked and sometimes had trouble keeping up.
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The hotel is located just off the beach area and about a 3 minute walk. The hotel has parking which is charged for and in the evenings it can be a bit difficult to find a space.
Check in was quick and we were in room 200. This overlooks the front of the hotel but was quiet enough. The rooms are large with a sofa seating area and small dinning table.
Room has a coffee machine, fridge and microwave next to a small kitchen sink. The bathroom has a decent size shower and no bath.There is a very small pool and hot-tub ina really small garden area but we didn't use it.
The breakfast is the standard holiday inn express fare and the less said about it the better. There are lost of restaurants nearby, including Starbucks and Macdonalds if you prefer. We tried Herbivore which is in the parking lot opposite the hotel and it serves vegan food and was interesting and quite tasty.
Its a good location to explore the beachfront from by foot.
Leaving the hotel can be a bit tricky if you want to turn left as you exit on the main road as its right turn only (ie heading north). However if you go through the car park you can exit onto Hualalai Road and get to the traffic lights where you can turn left.
Not sure I'd come rushing back to stay here but for the relative price it can certainly serve the purpose of a base to explore from.
The hotel is not on the sea-front: to get to the shore, such as it is, is about a 5 minute walk. This area is NOT a beach resort.
The surrounding area is well supplied with restaurants, shops and all sorts of outlets trying to sell stuff or trips to you.
Hotel rooms are comfortable and very well equipped, including microwave and plenty of power outlets. There is an outside large hot tub and small pool, fitness room and guest laundry.
There is only one elevator, used also by housekeeping so that can mean long waits. There are only 3 floors, including ground, and there must be a staircase somewhere...
The included breakfast is about as plastic as it gets, with plastic cutlery and much plastic-wrapped processed food. The refuse bins are overflowing when the horses have been fed.
It is most odd that an Island hotel, with all the problems of refuse disposal, and a reliance on the ocean a d natural environment to attract guests, should not by now have woken up to the unsustainabilty of single-use plastic.
That said, Staff are friendly, welcoming and helpful, and if the hotel seriously addressed the plastics issue, the hotel would move up the rankings quickly.
The location is awesome. One block off Alii and all the dining and shopping.
My only disappointment was that the check in lady handed me a memo to inform me that housekeeping was only available every 5 days unless specially requested. For me, one of the pleasant things about a hotel vacation is coming back to a clean room each evening. I was unhappy about this, but I survived. I guess they had some staffing issues along with a busy hotel.
All in all it was a good week, and I will return. The price was right, and I enjoyed my stay. A few glitches didn't change that.
Breakfast and facilities are average, but the location is wonderful with the bustling front street only about a block's walk. Thanks again to the staff for their kindness. It really made all the difference as we were simply exhausted by the time we arrived. The front desk staff were also very helpful providing cutlery packs for takeout food and additional towels.
The pool was evidently not in use. Water was murky and dirty.
Even the complimentary breakfast was average. Here we are in Hawaii, a fruit paradise, and they serve the same commercial apples, bananas and oranges that a hotel in Ohio would use. Why not purchase local fruit?
We were glad the hotel was conveniently located to Saddle Road so we could get the heck out of there and off to Hilo the next day.
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