The Sea Village

Reviews

• SC

  Simon Carrier

  Oct 11, 2025
  1.0
  At over $1,500 USD for 4 days, it’s outrageous to charge an extra $15 per day for air conditioning — which, by the way, is not a wall unit. It’s just a portable AC in the bedroom that can’t be moved and isn’t powerful enough to cool the entire apartment. This is dishonest — it’s a hidden fee. At that price, it’s unthinkable that air conditioning isn’t included, especially in Hawaii, where it’s at least 80°F year-round. A total absurdity. For this reason, I do not recommend this place.
• GT

  George Trager

  Sep 9, 2025
  1.0
  Booked this place because of a late breaking refurb at our usual spot that made it unavailable. This place seemed fine in the ad from the rental company. Possibly missed some gotchas in the fine print, I suppose. Just checked in to unit 1205, which from the looks of things is a pretty typical condo, if maybe more recently refurbed, so others may be less satisfactory than our unit. Piece fell off the refrigerator the first time we opened the door. Back patio door handle is bent from people pulling too hard to open it. The place was *HOT* when we got here and a frantic search for the thermostat came up empty...because there's NO CENTRAL A/C. Further research revealed a minisplit system that serves only the bedrooms (probably 20% of the place). The entire rest of the place relies on one dinky, undersized, noisy "portable" A/C unit that is literally poked through a louvered window and kind of jammed into place. The vent hose was broken off from the flange, so hot air just ran back into the room, a laws of thermodynamics problem if ever there was one. Running the unit just made the room net-hotter. The switching cost to ditch this place and take our chances against the same or worse has us probably staying put but we will NEVER book here again and our recommendation would be that nobody else do so either. In Kailua-Kona, A/C is pretty much a necessity and the omission here is glaring. We reviewed the listing again and the mini-split system is indeed called out, just not its inadequacy to do the job it is there to do and that it only serves a small part of the unit. There's a relatively small heat pump on the patio, which is probably why the owners put the portable into the main room because it can't handle the whole unit. It's just far too small to do the job but since A/C draws a lot of Amps so maybe that's all they can run, who knows? Most people would not catch this from the description in the listing, so I'm making it clear here. To be fair, the floors and kitchen are newish and clean, the furniture is basically island-standard Walmart stuff though functional and clean, but given the unpleasant climate control situation, we're feeling more than a bit ripped off. The place is advertised as "Kona Sunsets" but given the orientation of the patio, it's not a great sunset view. You need to really lean out and crane your neck to see around a pillar and a patio next door. Add to that, the heat exchanger for the minisplit blows *right onto the place you sit on the patio* buffeting you with hot air...just a total failure to plan for the obvious...making sitting on the patio to watch the sunsets (a main reason for renting right on the coast) kind of a ripoff, too. For what we are paying for this unit, we've stayed in much, much better accommodations along Alii Drive. In parting, caveat emptor.
• MS

  marjorie Schwartz

  Sep 9, 2025
  5.0
  We rented from a private owner. We love Sea Village. Very clean and furniture is comfortable. Decorated very nicely. Will come again.
• BH

  Biliana Heidler

  Aug 11, 2025
  2.0
  Schöne Anlage mit Pool, ABER Air-conditioning und Kaffee (2$) sind extra zu bezahlen
• PP

  Paul Pavlu

  Aug 3, 2025
  1.0
  Other than having a great view of the water, this place was awful. No air-conditioning! Super hot. Super loud from traffic. For 500$ a night i would expect at least air-conditioning. You can really tell this place is older.