Description:
Aloha, Potential Guests
Volcano Guest House is ecotourism lodging for the rest of us. We offer three affordable housekeeping cottages and two apartments, clustered in six acres of native high altitude tropical rainforest, five minutes from Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. We have been offering sustainable lodging accommodations since 1986. We offer recycling, solar assisted hot water heating, line-dried linens. We are kid-friendly and three of our units are wheelchair accessible.
We are Bonnie Goodell and Alan Miller. We homesteaded this land in 1979, living in a tent for the first year. Alan is a builder specializing in fine finish work using recycled and local materials, which you will see in all our accommodations. Bonnie left a job organizing community gardens in Honolulu, to do community organizing and then sustainable land use planning from Volcano. But both of us have now quit all that to concentrate on our guests and developing our sustainable small farm.
Amenities:
• Simple breakfast fixings, snacks, books, videos, games, all available 24 hours a day.
• TVs, VCRs, telephones, kitchens and private baths in each of our units.
• Greenhouse laundry area and beautiful hot tub, available all the time.
• Trails, fish ponds, two dogs and a cat, ducks, and two small cows.
The Cottage sleeps up to six, $130 per night for the first two, $15 per extra person, full kitchen and bath. The Cottage has the feel of an old-time Volcano summer cabin, complete with family antiques, hand-me down furniture, and a short tub/shower that is 50 years old and looks it. Except for the beds. They are new and comfy.
Claudia's Place sleeps up to three, $115 per night for the first two, $15 per extra person, full kitchen and bath. We built Claudia's Place, a mother-in-law apartment, which shares a front porch with our house, in 1995, for Alan's mother, Claudia. There's a queen bed in the bedroom and a twin bed in the living/kitchen room. The spacious bedroom and bathroom were designed for wheelchairs.
Twin I and Twin II each sleep four, $115 per night for the first two, $15 per extra person, full kitchen and bath. The Twins were finished in June, 2001. Their floor plans mirror each other and they share a large lanai between them. Each has a bedroom alcove with a queen bed that can be made private by closing a curtain. In the living room are two twin beds. They are designed for wheelchair accessibility.
The Upstairs sleeps four, $115 per night for the first two, $15 per extra person, kitchenette and bath. The Upstairs, our only unit with two bedrooms (one with a queen bed, one with two twin beds), is upstairs in our house, and has its own bathroom and dining/kitchenette, with microwave, toaster, rice cooker, coffeemaker, refrigerator and sink (no stove). Also a nice roomy tub/shower.
Tariff: $115 - $130 per night for the first two people. $15 per night extra for each person after the first two. The 7th night is always free. $1600 per month, off season. Plus 11.25% state tax.
• 2 night minimum stay. Call for one night requests; $40 surcharge for one nighter, available only if we show a one-night gap on the online calendar.
• Mastercard or Visa required to hold a reservation
• 50% charge for cancellation less than two weeks before reservation, full charge for no-shows.
To find us: Download the maps off the website, or:
1. Going toward Volcano from Hilo, turn left on Jade avenue, the second left after the 25 mile marker.
Going toward Hilo from the National Park, or if you come from Kona by the southern route, turn right on Jade just after the 26 mile marker.
2. Almost to the end of Jade, turn left on Ala Ohia, just past 13th Street.
3. Almost at the end of Ala Ohia, just past the Dead End sign, turn in at the sign that says "Volcano Guest House, 11-3733 Ala Ohia." (Our neighbor also has a sign; it says "Mahalo Hawaiian Retreat")
4. Follow the signs.
See Volcano Guest House, Volcano On A Map:
You can view Volcano Guest House, Volcano on the Google map - see right. Volcano Guest House, Volcano is located by the red marker in the centre of the map. Please feel free to print the map for your convenience when traveling to Volcano Guest House, Volcano.
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