Papayahome.com
Large Private Home on the Big Island of Hawai'i
Peaceful, secluded, fully-equipped, spacious, non-smoking home near idyllic beaches, Hawaiiana shops, farmers market, & oceanfront cafes. Send a message via the Contact (last) page of this website for reservations, availability & more detailed information.
Description - Mo'olelo (Succession of words or story)
Master bedroom with lanai access of the Papaya Home
`Olu`olu komo mai. The Papaya Home is a clean healthy non-smoking house. The home is furnished in a Hawaiian Asian style under high vaulted ceilings, cupola and ceiling fans in every room. Fully equipped like your own home with high-speed wireless internet access throughout the house for laptop, iPad, and other devices, cable HDTV on both floors, bluetooth sound system, games, books, movies and traditional Hawaiian music, tropical flowers, linens, bath & beach towels, toiletries, two washers & two dryers with laundry supplies, kitchen cookware with spices and seasonings, large gas bbq grill, baby equipment including crib, stroller, car seats, booster, and high chair, beach equipment including ice chests, beach chairs and mats, sun umbrellas, snorkel gear, children's beach toys, and boogie boards, and a long pole fruit basket picker to reach far papayas.
Available Options and Seasonal Rates - Hele mai a`i (Come in & relax)
A bowl of freshly picked papaya, starfruit, avocado, lilikoi, and banana in the early morning light of the atrium
The Papaya Home is available in two configurations as an entire home (4 bedrooms/3 bathrooms on two floors) or top floor penthouse (3 bedrooms/2 bathrooms with laundry room access); if you reserve the penthouse, the downstairs portion will remain vacant to ensure your privacy. For the entire home, rates seasonally range from $250 to $650 per night plus Hawai`i state tax (17.96%) and a 1-time end-of-stay housekeeping fee of $349.89. For the Penthouse, rates seasonally range from $200 to $350 per night plus Hawai`i state tax (17.96%) and a 1-time end-of-stay housekeeping fee of $229.89. Rates and housekeeping fees vary with time of season, size of your group, and length of stay (lower weekly rates available). Holiday rates apply from 15 Dec to 15 Jan and Ironman Week in early October. Keiki (children) always welcome. Send a message through the Contact (last) page of this website. Please include number of adults and children under 18 and the flexibility of your dates, in your inquiry for a timely response with a competitive quote. Payment options include Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Zelle QuickPay, Venmo, Apple Pay, electronic funds transfer, or check. Mahalo nui loa.
In the Hawaiian Ohana Spirit, We Welcome All - E komo mai, e noho mai, e `ai a e, wala`au
Happy keiki (children) playing in the front yard of the Papaya Home.
E komo mai, e noho mai, e `ai a e, wala`au (come in, come sit, eat, and talk story). In Hawaiian, the sacred word la`i means calm, peace, and tranquility. A common phrase "He po walea, he aō i ka la'i" translated "peace brings undisturbed nights and days". In the wake of the recent pandemic and subsequent isolation, many seek to reunify with family and friends and restore the sense of peace that comes in their presence. The Papaya Home is suitable for all gatherings including couples, friends, and ohana (families) with kids (keiki) and generations from kūpuna (grandparents) to mo`opuna (grandchildren). We've hosted many reunions of family and friends to celebrate the recent birth of a child, birthday, graduation, wedding, anniversary, and hopefully, the end of a pandemic. We welcome all races, backgrounds, faiths, countries of origin, all genders and orientations. We welcome those in search of peace, kindness, tolerance, harmony, mutual respect, and the restorative benefits of the essence of Hawai`i.
Big Island of Hawai'i Beauty - Ke Kumu o Ke ‘Alohi Hāweo
Pu`uhonua O Hōnaunau National Historical Park
Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ‘āina i ka Pono (the life of the āina (land) is perpetuated in righteousness). The Papaya Home is located in Kailua-Kona, 5 minutes from town & points of natural beauty and anthropological interest including the Hulihe'e Palace, Mokuaikaua Church, Kamakahonu and Ahuʻena Heiau (residence of King Kamehameha, last king of Hawai'i), Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park, Pu`uhonua O Hōnaunau National Historical Park, Captain Cook Monument and Kealakekua Bay, Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, Pu'ukohola Heiau, Kona coffee farms, numerous beaches with fishing, swimming, snorkeling, diving, paddle-board and long board surfing along the sunny Kona Coast.
"No alien land in all the world has any deep, strong charm for me but that one; no other land could so longingly and beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same. For me its balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of its surf-beat in my ear; I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore; its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud rack; I can feel the spirit of its wooded solitudes; I can hear the splash of its brooks; in my senses still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago." Musings of Hawai`i by Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Paradise of the Pacific, April 1910