Club Wyndham Kona — Hotel in Hawaii

We were here for a whole month, and that was long enough to run into several disappointments. The dated rooms are nice enough. The grounds are attractive but minimalist—the whole property is rooms, with one sad little koi pond as decoration. Our ancient dishwasher broke twice, although the maintenance guy was Johnny-on-the-spot about trying to fix it both times. One lightbulb blew out when the power went out for a few hours. The location is good, although it's not on the water, it's across the road. But holy COW is it loud.||Pros: because it's dated and less popular, it's easier to book. The 2-bedroom rooms are spacious, and the beds are surprisingly good. Everything was adequately clean. The views are great, especially at sunset, and there are some gorgeous birds that hang around. There are gas grills on the property that work well and are properly maintained. The pots and pans are actually decent, although the cheap plastic cooking tools are worthless (and made of that black plastic they're telling everyone to "throw away now!"). The staff is stellar. Parking is surprisingly straightforward. The location is good: you can be on the tourist trap strip in a couple of minutes, and in town in a few minutes more.||Okay-ish: The tiny TV in the bedroom is small enough to pick up and move, and has HDMI ports so you can actually use it for something other than terrible hotel cable; unfortunately most of the power sockets are hidden behind furniture, as was standard architecture in the ancient days before people plugged things into the wall.||Meh: There's no desk or indoor table of any kind, apart from the coffee table. I asked at the front desk for a folding table or a card table or something, but they told me they have nothing like that. If you need to set up a laptop to get some stuff done (I did) you're relegated to repurposing a dresser and getting leg and arm cramps sitting in front of it. None of the chairs or benches work for that height. The appliances are the usual terrible contractor-grade junk you find in timeshares. In general the rooms and buildings are terribly outdated and very worn out, which detracts from the experience. It's a timeshare so the knives are badly abused and dull from hundreds of people who throw them into the dishwasher. I remembered to bring a knife sharpener this time, though! If you never cook in your timeshare room, the kitchen is fine, but I suspect most people use the kitchen to make a meal or two during their stay. There is no dining of any kind on property, unlike all the other Wyndham properties in the area.||Bad: The stairs are sketchy at best and you're going to get splinters if you need the assistance of the railing. The lamps—the only source of lighting—are on wall switches like it's 1971 all over again (who under the age of 80 puts lamps on switches!?); if you use the switches for the bedroom, you're also turning off your phone charger. Speaking of which, the fans all have switches, which is great, but most of them have two settings: turbo speed or OFF. Pulling the chain lets you pick from turbo speed, turbo speed, or OFF. Only one fan seemed to have a low setting, in the smaller bedroom.||Horrible: Every single day there's a mower or a gas-powered blower running, usually in the morning when you might want to sit on your deck with coffee or breakfast. Every. Single. Day. That's not counting the days where the chainsaws were running, or the days where the construction next door was blaring. You can't go out on your deck until after 11 or so unless you can ignore gas blowers roaring continuously. The wifi literally dies every day for a couple of hours. Their DHCP server just stops assigning addresses and who knows if the uplink is any good. Make sure you either bring a phone with tethering or just...don't need any devices. Good luck planning where to go for dinner!||TL;DR: If you're just in town for a week or whatever, and not going to use the room much, it's fine. If you're moving in for a while, a couple of weeks or more, you're going to run into a lot of flaws. Also: BEWARE OF THOSE AWFUL GAS BLOWERS! I have no idea how those things are even...

We were here for a whole month, and that was long enough to run into several disappointments. The dated rooms are nice enough. The grounds are attractive but minimalist—the whole property is rooms, with one sad little koi pond as decoration. Our ancient dishwasher broke twice, although the maintenance guy was Johnny-on-the-spot about trying to fix it both times. One lightbulb blew out when the power went out for a few hours. The location is good, although it's not on the water, it's across the road. But holy COW is it loud.||Pros: because it's dated and less popular, it's easier to book. The 2-bedroom rooms are spacious, and the beds are surprisingly good. Everything was adequately clean. The views are great, especially at sunset, and there are some gorgeous birds that hang around. There are gas grills on the property that work well and are properly maintained. The pots and pans are actually decent, although the cheap plastic cooking tools are worthless (and made of that black plastic they're telling everyone to "throw away now!"). The staff is stellar. Parking is surprisingly straightforward. The location is good: you can be on the tourist trap strip in a couple of minutes, and in town in a few minutes more.||Okay-ish: The tiny TV in the bedroom is small enough to pick up and move, and has HDMI ports so you can actually use it for something other than terrible hotel cable; unfortunately most of the power sockets are hidden behind furniture, as was standard architecture in the ancient days before people plugged things into the wall.||Meh: There's no desk or indoor table of any kind, apart from the coffee table. I asked at the front desk for a folding table or a card table or something, but they told me they have nothing like that. If you need to set up a laptop to get some stuff done (I did) you're relegated to repurposing a dresser and getting leg and arm cramps sitting in front of it. None of the chairs or benches work for that height. The appliances are the usual terrible contractor-grade junk you find in timeshares. In general the rooms and buildings are terribly outdated and very worn out, which detracts from the experience. It's a timeshare so the knives are badly abused and dull from hundreds of people who throw them into the dishwasher. I remembered to bring a knife sharpener this time, though! If you never cook in your timeshare room, the kitchen is fine, but I suspect most people use the kitchen to make a meal or two during their stay. There is no dining of any kind on property, unlike all the other Wyndham properties in the area.||Bad: The stairs are sketchy at best and you're going to get splinters if you need the assistance of the railing. The lamps—the only source of lighting—are on wall switches like it's 1971 all over again (who under the age of 80 puts lamps on switches!?); if you use the switches for the bedroom, you're also turning off your phone charger. Speaking of which, the fans all have switches, which is great, but most of them have two settings: turbo speed or OFF. Pulling the chain lets you pick from turbo speed, turbo speed, or OFF. Only one fan seemed to have a low setting, in the smaller bedroom.||Horrible: Every single day there's a mower or a gas-powered blower running, usually in the morning when you might want to sit on your deck with coffee or breakfast. Every. Single. Day. That's not counting the days where the chainsaws were running, or the days where the construction next door was blaring. You can't go out on your deck until after 11 or so unless you can ignore gas blowers roaring continuously. The wifi literally dies every day for a couple of hours. Their DHCP server just stops assigning addresses and who knows if the uplink is any good. Make sure you either bring a phone with tethering or just...don't need any devices. Good luck planning where to go for dinner!||TL;DR: If you're just in town for a week or whatever, and not going to use the room much, it's fine. If you're moving in for a while, a couple of weeks or more, you're going to run into a lot of flaws. Also: BEWARE OF THOSE AWFUL GAS BLOWERS! I have no idea how those things are even...

Due to delayed flights we didn’t check in until minutes before midnight and although staff was friendly we were told little and given nothing so we didn’t learn about resort activities that happen each day - some complimentary and some which have a fee. I heard a lovely lady in Hawaiian dress giving a botanical tour I would have loved to be a part of but that happened once on Monday morning and I missed it 🙃. We had booked through Air B&B and because of late arrival, we were put in a wheelchair-accessible room which was not as updated as what we had booked, nor did the larger bedroom match anything we had seen on-line but the location and the view off the lanai was good. At the resort, there are large gas BBQs located for access for every few condos which is a great option and they work well and are easy. * you can ask for BBQ tomgs which no one told us but by day three I started asking. The kitchen was OK but not very well equipped. No tea kettle, no tea pot, no hot mitts - silicone hot pads or trivets are NOT safe to grab something hot out of an oven as they don’t grip or bend at all so you need to use the tea towels🤨 I asked and was told that was what I should use. Each building seems to contain four condo units. There is an Above and a Below. If you are put in a below, you hear footsteps, chairs, showers and toilet flushing from above. Our unit had great AC and fans in every room and on the lovely lanai: the deck chairs often stuck to the paint of the floor so clunk a lot. Both bedrooms had king sized beds which were very comfortable but had pillows which looked good but crushed to very thin when you put your head in them so they were uncomfortable 🙃 The resort has two pool areas that are connected by a couple of main roads and a maze of pathways. We were closest to the lower one which is nearer the Aloha checkin desk - it was great and open 8-10. Not a lot of chairs or loungers but it almost always seemed to accommodate. The hot tub was like a warm springs waterfall and the pool had various depths and bench seats; there were a few umbrellas at tables and the garden areas were nicely maintained. The higher pool area we did not use but it had a larger pool and an even more developed garden. The grounds are well maintained and even include a turtle/fish habitat pond. On our fifth day I discovered there is a shed you can borrow from which may contain beach chairs, boogie boards, pool noodles etc - I wish I had been told. Thank you Sharon for being helpful with directions 😀. On our first morning we were called by the concierge to hook us up with wrist bracelets which are slick and work well even if you have swam in them; however, it was really the starting point for the Time share push. We said a hard no and I think that is why we didn’t get much helpful information so ask at the desk for extra housekeeping items like coffee filters and dw cubes and BBQ tongs. There are large parking g stalls handy to every area and being in Ali’i Drive is a great location there is a little beach out the gate and to the right only about a 8 minute walk away. The free resort wifi provides one connection per person but it works very well all over the resort. 👍 we recommend getting groceries at Costco. The fridge worked well and had a built in ice machine. Overall, I would recommend but encourage more clarity with communication and advise #Wyndham to provide hot mitts and tea pots and weekly...