Castle Kauai Kailani

We've been coming & staying at the old Mokihana (now ISO) & Kauai Kailani 1 since the mid 70s. Location is wonderful. Very peaceful too if not for the new "attitude" of some guests. I'll likely be flamed for saying it; but I don't spend substantial funds to stay a couple of weeks in a lovely Kauai condo just to hear kids yelling & misbehaving & very young babies crying. Fully grown adults also sadly never learned the respect of using a quiet voice in public places during pre-dawn hours. That said; our condo was wonderful: Clean & in good repair; well stocked kitchen amenities; beautiful sunrise view from lanai; comfortable & far enough from Kuhio highway to seem relaxed; nice quality beds / furniture & quiet (barring a one day adolescent birthday party & previously aforementioned badly behaved guests). Rhonda (check-in office over at ISO) & Sheila (housekeeping) are both lovely, Kauai old school treasures! We will definitely be back.

Deceiving, pictures are not the same as actual. NO AIR-CONDITIONING! Nice to have a full kitchen, but several more fans could have been provided. If you just want a place to lay your head, then the bed is good, unclear on parking, unclear about laundry, about TV, unclear about a lot of things. No recommendation here, but you live and learn.

We stayed here for two weeks. I was nervous, reading the reviews as we had booked the property quickly. After two weeks, my husband and I decided the property was adequate. We didn’t spend a lot of time there and it met our needs. Two bedrooms in full kitchen was nice with two kids. Previous reviews, talked of a homeless camp, that was no longer there and property felt totally safe. You cannot swim straight out from the property, but if you walk 10 to 20 feet to the right, you can swim there and it is a beautiful Sandy Beach that extends for miles. All beaches are public, so you could swim anywhere along there, in addition to one of the other amazing beaches on Kauai. Having two pools was nice, but the pools were freezing! We are used to swimming in Lake Michigan, the pools were almost too cold for my kids. Would have been really nice if they heated them or heated them more. Hard to tell if they were heated at all. This was a huge disappointment for my kids! And honestly also very disappointing for myself. They also didn’t open until nine which was too late for a morning lap swimming. Property is super old, but the condo was updated as much as possible. Hard to keep things looking new with all the salt water vapor. Whoever designed it did a terrible job because the most beautiful views are a solid wall and staircase. Definitely true about them being very public, you look straight across to condos across from you, so, if lights are on at night, everyone can see in. We had air-conditioning, which was nice for drying things out because it is so humid, it did not reach to the back room, but the breeze through the window felt nice. Also had a washer and dryer which we could not have lived without. Carpet in the master and rugs were absolutely disgusting. Would have been nice if it was all hard floors and any rug should be an indoor/outdoor rug. Rugs felt damp and disgusting. I could hardly walk on them without feeling gross. Sheets were also terrible! Getting in them the first night it felt like they were full of sand because they were so pilled. I had to sleep on top because it felt so terrible. Comforter on the pull out bed it was stained and ripped. I went across the street to Ross to buy a brand new pair of cheap sheets for the master bed and we flipped the duvet cover around on the pull out couch and made it work. All in all, you are on Kauai, so it’s an awesome place to be. I personally would not want to stay here again, but as I said earlier, in the review, it was totally adequate. Running up and down the trail, there are much nicer places to stay. This is a great budget location