“good budget hotel”

Hotel is located near public dock. The closest sandy beach is about a mile away. There are quite a few restaurants located within walking distance of the hotel., We had the breakfast included option which was nice despite having only 3 options. Overall the hotel is good for anyone on a budget. Do not expect the the 4 seasons at motel 6 prices and you will be satisfied. Our room overloooked the pool area and was close to the road so there was quite as bit of traffic noise. I will stay here again if in Kona. There is a $5 per day parking fee and parking slots are narrow and limited.

“Great Location in Kailua-Kona Town”

Good quality hotel right in the heart of Kailua-Kona town. Close to restaurants, beach, museums, sightseeing and shopping. Good step-off point for island tours, snorkel and fishing tours from the pier, and just walking around. The staff is friendly and helpful. It is an older hotel, but the grounds and rooms are well maintained. Many rooms have ocean views and the air conditioning is included. I was surprised that there is a charge for parking.

“Fine for budget travelers”

This is a quite adequate hotel if you're on a budget and plan to use your hotel merely as a base for doing other things, as we did. The rooms were clean, shower hot, bed comfortable. A/C was okay, but noisy.

“go back every visit”

family owned and run, makes you feel at home ,very relaxing. tantes the restaurant attached is awesome. great food ,friendly and "aunty " sings and plays ukelele while you eat breakfast. will always go back.

“Quite pleasant hotel experience for budget price”

-This stay was just pleasant experience. The hotel has an interesting location with easy walk to many anearby attractions, tourist stores and eating places, but also close to services and stores that the permanent population often use, on the north side of town. That gave us a warm feeling of being a bit integrated with the real town life - instead of living in an artificial or theatric surroundings - which may happen in some resorts. Yet, the hotel faciliy is surprisingly well shielded from extrenal tourist noise. Rooms and grounds were very clean and well kept. For best room comfort, just remember to select low speed on the A/C electronics; that makes the room both nicely cool and relatively quiet Our balcony view included both the lush and fine trimmed hotel garden plus some of the bay and boats. But you also see some back sides of stores with less artistic impression. Nevertheless, in a trip to Hawaiii, there is so mych more to do than staying in the room ! The included breakfast was another pearl. You get a closeup view of the bay full of boats in morning activities, through a wide open building aperture. Add to this a pretty tune by a lady, her soft pling-plong ukulele song, plus a warm and tasty good size food order, and this breakfast goes to the Pleasamt Memories Folder. We had good use ofhe wireless internet connection. with a reasonable weekly price. It was typically donloading at 1.7 MB/s fine for video streaming. A GOOD PICK

“OUR RECENT TRIP”

I LIKED THE KONA SEASIDE HOTEL VERY MUCH,IT WAS VERY GOOD LOCATION TO GETTING TO EVERYTHING WE WENT TO THE BIG ISLAND TO DO,ITS NOT A NEW HOTEL HOWEVER ITS VERY CLEAN AND WELL KEPT,THEY GAVE BOTH OF US A FREE BREAKFEST EVERY MORNING AND I DONT JUST MEAN COFFEE AND DONUTS,IT WAS AT THE RESTRANT BEHIND THE HOTEL,,VERY,VERY NICE THANK YOU AND I WOULD STAY THERE AGAIN

“Not so special, just okey”

Service was bad, but room was clean and comfortable.

“Superb value and location”

This hotel is somewhat dated but except for folks who expect Four Seasons decor at rock bottom prices this should be overlooked. The rooms are functional and clean. Breakfast which I included in my rate is satisfactory and has a superb ocean view. The pool is lovely. The location is the best in Kailu-Kona. When I stay in Kona I will stay here.

“Awesome hotel for the money!”

After reading some of the reviews, my bf and I thought we were going to check into a roach motel. Turns out that the Kona Seaside Hotel is the furthest thing from a roach motel. It's in the best location possible for Kona with shops all around and Walmart just about 7 mins away (in case you forgot to pack something). Turtle beach, Honaunau bay, coffee plantations, snorkel cruises, manta ray night snorkeling are just some of the locations within 10-15 minutes of the hotel. The hotel was clean and very airy with the open lobby and big windows all around. The staff was super pleasant, nice and helpful. The room itself was not a 5 star Hilton room, but then again you're not paying $400 a night either. It's clean, which was the biggest thing for me. Each room has it's own air conditioner and ceiling fan, mini fridge, TV and coffee maker. We weren't planning on staying in our room much since it is Hawaii afterall so the room was perfect for us. Plus, they have a restaurant onsite (Tante's) where the food is good and the staff is very friendly! The only thing that wasn't cool about the hotel is that they charge $5/day for parking but I guess that's still better than the $15/day most of the other hotels charge. All in all, the Kona Seaside Hotel is a great hotel for the price and I would definitely stay here again.