12-12-2008, 01:49 PM
Your HPP location is "close to the ocean", most likely you can "hear the waves". There are quite a few B&B's around, in many different house styles... There is an ultra modern concrete structure on Kehena Pt. that has been used as a vacation spot...
A pool is nice, but not a given, and would really depend on your lot, your willingness to maintain it, the electrical cost (this runs pretty high for our friends that have pools, even solar heated pools use quite a bit of energy...), and your liability (check with insurers on this)
Bicycles are nice in lower HPP
We have friends with B&B's in Hilo & Puna... some oceanfront, most not
Word of mouth has been the best seller of space for all, yet all but one are having more vacancies right now... that one has write ups in travel books...
2 of our B&B friends have mentioned that having a TOTALLY accessible room, esp. bathroom, would be nice for some of their clients...
most are not totally compliant to ADA specs for wheelchair with assistant..
A pool is nice, but not a given, and would really depend on your lot, your willingness to maintain it, the electrical cost (this runs pretty high for our friends that have pools, even solar heated pools use quite a bit of energy...), and your liability (check with insurers on this)
Bicycles are nice in lower HPP
We have friends with B&B's in Hilo & Puna... some oceanfront, most not
Word of mouth has been the best seller of space for all, yet all but one are having more vacancies right now... that one has write ups in travel books...
2 of our B&B friends have mentioned that having a TOTALLY accessible room, esp. bathroom, would be nice for some of their clients...
most are not totally compliant to ADA specs for wheelchair with assistant..