Nihi Kai #820 By Parrish Kauai - amazing ocean view condo & heated pool!

Great condo. Very nicely decorated, comfortable furniture, and great location. The view was fantastic. Only complaint is that is was advertised as air-conditioned which is misleading. An evaporative unit was in the master bedroom only and not big enough to keep the room cool. Open windows and breeze was better. Condo did get warm in the early afternoons.

Spacious and fully-stocked unit is within walking distance to the beach. Having high quality chairs/umbrellas made our beach days very comfortable. The position and height (2nd floor) of the large balcony offers excellent beach/ocean and sunset views. It's an end unit which improves privacy, and parking is down a short flight of steps. We mainly used the 2nd bathroom instead of the master bath, which could use some updating (old tub and corroding sink faucets). Would also have been nice to have a larger TV in the master. Otherwise, it's a nearly perfect unit that we enjoyed using as a home base for 8 nights.

We enjoyed staying in this location so much. The condo was so clean, spacious, and with plenty of room and sleeping arrangements for 5 of us. The kitchen had every dish and tool we needed for cooking. The beach chairs and umbrellas available for us to use were perfect. Great proximity to the beach, restaurants nearby. We would stay here again in a heartbeat. Mahalo!

Very clean and nice condo. The check in was slightly cumbersome because of the state of Hawaii requirements. Great location. Beautiful view. Could use brighter lights in the condo.

Our stovetop went out the first day and the owner had it replaced within a day. Staff was friendly and attentive. We were literally within one block of Poipu beach and had an incredible view of the ocean! I highly recommend this place!

Very good stay. Nice, comfortable Condo very close to the beaches in Poipu. Unit was as advertised and the staff was great. Two minor issues were poor lighting in the lining room at night and the sliding doors are very hard to open and close - need maintenance. All in all we would stay there again.

The house was well-stocked with beach chairs, coolers, boogie boards, beach umbrellas, tennis rackets and balls. All kitchen items were decent, salt and pepper oil and vinegar some spices. The gas grill is conveniently located right near the condo. The view is great, just a beautiful view of the ocean and sunset. The beds were comfortable. It’s a well-furnished place, with two bathrooms. The biggest issue was the heat. I booked our Kauai vacation back in April when there were no reviews of this property. I did a VRBO search of properties based on the searchable features with the box of Air Conditioning checked. That was my only criteria, knowing that it gets really hot in July in Hawaii. Nowhere in the description did it say at the time that I booked it - portable AC in bedroom only. I passed over other properties that listed their AC as one room only. That had to have been added later after the reviews started coming in. It was uncomfortably hot, and the air conditioner barely keeps the bedroom cool. We had to leave the blinds shut during the day to keep it at 85 degrees inside this second floor unit. It was unbearable. But we were out most of the day. By 5pm it cools down, but we had to keep the fans going constantly to do so. Another issue sadly, was bugs. We noticed a large cockroach in the kitchen, and small ones in the bathrooms on the first night. The management company quickly came and treated the place a day later, and I didn't see any others until the last day when we were packing to leave. Overall, the people managing the place were accommodating about this. But it was unsettling. One minor inconvenience, the hot tub is built into the pool, and it is not hot. It's the same temperature as the pool itself. So basically the hot tub is just a mini-pool. The grounds were ok, but didn't seem too well cared for. This whole place needs a revamp. They told us central air is coming to the unit.

My husband and I were here with our daughter and son in law and grandchildren recently. There were many good things about this unit Including a great view, great location, and beautiful furnishings and art. The kitchen was well equipped and there is lots of storage. There were boogie boards and beach chairs umbrellas and some snorkeling masks in the closet. (NO baby things. No portacrib, or high chair.) If you have a baby you’ll have to rent these things and make arrangements in advance. Do it early! By the time we found this out they were not available, rental places were sold out, except one place that wanted $90 for delivery. My reasons for a low rating are these: In the posting we read it stated the unit slept 6. When we arrived, we found there was a nice size king bed in the master, two twins in the second bedroom, and some very thin old flip foam mats. The couch did not pull out and there was no futon as listed. As pricing for units are usually based largely on how many they sleep, I did not feel throwing a few thin flip mats in a closet counts as sleeping two extra people. The unit sleeps 4 period. The unit also stated it had two full baths with tubs. This was important to us as we brought our young grand children. There is one tub and one shower. Another reason for the low ratting is, in the listing we saw, under amenities, AC was listed. This was important to us as we go to Kauai in the summer largely to escape the Sacramento heat. The AC in this unit consists of one portable AC unit in the master bedroom. It barely cools one room. The place was stifling hot despite our best efforts of making use of pull down screens and fans and the breeze, we could not get the unit to cool down. It was too hot to cook in or use the included closet stack clothes dryer. We finally all took cool showers and tried to sleep with fans directly on us. It’s a top floor unit and the sun hits the place all afternoon. This may be a good unit for a couple. As I mentioned the furnishing are nice, but for our purposes not practical. The romantic lighting is very low, too low for reading. The very nice couch is great for sitting but not comfortable for sleeping on at all. Oh and families beware of some awkward questions from the little ones about why the ladies on the lamps have no tops on. To be fair my husband had no issues with the lamps. As I said the unit is best suited to an adult couple.

My wife and I just finished a five nite trip to Kauai. I booked this condo with no previous reviews, so I was hoping everything would be OK, and it was. Nihi Kai is a condo complex across the street from the ocean, just east of Poipu Beach park. The property gently slopes uphill and building 8 is at the top. Parking is easy because you drive up to a back lot adjacent to the condo. Unit 820 is up a flight of 12 steps. No elevator unfortunately. It has two bedrooms, each with attached bath. There is a large living/dining room and the whole place is furnished nicely. The living room and bedrooms have ceiling fans. There is a portable air conditioner unit in the master bedroom. The condo has louver windows all around, so when the trade winds are blowing it cools the unit down quickly. But it can get a little stuffy sometimes. There are several floor fans in the closets if you need them. There is a lanai overlooking the parking lot and leading off the second bedroom. The lot has brilliant purple bougainvillea flowers on the far slope. The main deck has a great panorama of the ocean, Poipu Beach park, rolling green hills and mountains in the distance. We ate breakfast out there each morning to soak in the views. Below are a number of tropical trees, full of chirping birds in the morning. There is a full kitchen and plenty of dining space. There are beach chairs, masks, fins and snorkels in the living room closet. Poipu Beach park is walkable, especially on a nice day when their parking is full. The one area restaurant/bar, Brennecke's, is across the street from the park in case you want to drink a few and walk back. The condo has a washer/dryer unit and a large bookcase in the second bedroom with a wide variety from John Clancy to Sue Grafton, and some non-fiction as well. The complex pool is about a five minute walk and is right across the street from the lava covered beach. One morning we were there at 10 am and nobody else was by the pool. Nice time relaxing in the sun. The complex office is only open M-F during business hours. There are TVs with cable in the two bedrooms and the living room but I found them difficult to operate. Maybe better directions would help. There were no directions for the room air conditioner, those would have been handy. I highly recommend this condo. It is an end unit, nobody above you, nobody to one side. Very quiet at nite. We were always able to park footsteps from the place