What are the guest rooms really like? Mahina and Makani

Both the Mahina (moon room) and Makani (wind room) have their private entrances off the sunny pool lanai. They are next to each other and just about identical in size and appearance. They both have beautiful ocean views out across the pool lanai. Both rooms receive the ocean breezes blowing off the water during the day and the mountain breeze blowing down from behind at night. Both rooms are filled with soft natural light and, like the Moana room, have a clean modern minimalist look. While the Moana Room has a slightly vaulted ceiling, Mahina and Makani have beautiful wood ceilings. All three main house guest rooms are about 350 square feet and have good-sized 3/4 bathrooms (sink, toilet, shower) with nice, cool slate floors.  They are unusually large for B&B guest rooms.  It can be difficult to tell from just a few photos, and we're working on getting some new photos up soon.

Guest Room Tour Continued...our Great Room and Lanai

The Great Room is an area just for guests to enjoy (we have our own completely separate space so guests never feel like they're in "our house" or that they have to interact with us if they don't want to). The Great Room is a big, open, airy room where guests can work on the computer (we have a work station just for guests with high-speed Internet access), read, or relax. We prop the front doors open during the day and the wonderful ocean breeze blows through. This is a great place to read. I've even snuck down when no one is here and done yoga in this room. It is very quiet (except for the bird sounds and the breeze in the trees) and is a peaceful space.

On the other side of the Great Room there is a door out onto our big pool lanai. The pool lanai is very large and has plenty of space for guests to relax and sun bathe. We have a lovely round pool, a hot tub, and a covered area with a BBQ. If no one's around I'll sometimes sneak down to the pool for a sunset dip. I like swimming to the edge, resting my arms on the side facing the water and watching the sun set into the ocean. The sun sets quickly here in Hawaii, so make sure to sit still and enjoy it before heading out for dinner. Or, just enjoy a BBQ dinner here on the lanai. You can’t beat the view!

What are the guest rooms really like?

It's very difficult to describe our guest rooms with just a few lines and one or two photographs, so I thought we'd go into detail a little bit more here in our blog.

Luana Inn is a very unique property as far as guest rooms go because, unlike most B&B's, this house was actually built to be a bed and breakfast, rather than being a house that was converted into a B&B. This resulted in guest rooms that were very well designed. Each guest room has a private entrance and private bathroom and is quite large, as far as traditional B&B rooms go. The bathrooms were not added in after the fact, which is also the case in many B&B's. I've stayed in more than one traditional B&B that either had a shared bath or where the guest room had a bathroom but was so tiny is was obviously a converted closet. Our first impression when we saw photos of the guest rooms here before we bought the property was that the rooms looked more like elegant resort rooms rather than crowded B&B guest rooms, which we liked! We are both fans of space, cleanliness, privacy, and minimalism. I'll try to describe each of the five guest rooms one at a time over my next few entries to give you a better feel for each of them.  

First I'll describe Moana, our ocean room. Moana is probably our single most popular room because it has the most dramatic ocean view. It's in the main house and has two doors, one onto the front yard with the wedding arch, and one onto our Great Room. Many of our guests who've stayed in this room have commented that they feel like the front yard is their own private lawn. The front lawn is a manicured grassy stretch bordered by a hedge with bright orange flowers that overlooks the ocean. We're so close to the ocean that you can often hear the waves at night from this room. Many of the Moana guests also leave the door to the Great Room open since few guests actually use that space. The Moana Room is open and airy and has great light. The calming sound of the koi pond waterfall is always in the background.