Akiko's Bed & Breakfast

Surrounding Area

Located in small rural plantation village along the lush Hamakua Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii. Tropical waterfalls, rainforests, rich fertile soil. Old Hawaii at its best with quaint towns & local people with many stories to tell of Hawaii's rich cultural past.

Accommodations

Stay in a 85 year old plantation house surrounded by fruit bearing lychee, mango, papaya trees. House is very simple and open with gentle trade winds blowing. Listen to the rain pitter-patter on the tin roof. Sleep on beds or futons in the peace and quiet of the cool nights.

Rooms/Suites

The Pu'uhonua House has 5 bedrooms & regular beds. The Monastery House has futons & surrounds a large meditation room. A separate retreat studio with simple kitchen & bed is available for 2 week stays.

Amenities

Daily meditation and weekly yoga classes available. A gallery and performance space which can accomodate up to 85 in a former Shell Service Station Garage. A wide range of local style activities and tours like a trip to a local coffee & donkey farm, a search for stones with a stone lantern sculptor.

Services Offered

Links to massage therapists, accupunture and local native healers.

Restrictions

No pets. Smoke free. No need to be a Buddhist. All decent and compassionate human beings welcomed.

Rates & Availability

single - $40/night $260/wk. plus tax & includes breakfast. $550/month
double - $55/night, $355/wk. plus tax & includes breakfast. $750/month.

Akiko Masuda, (808) 963-6422 - phone/fax
P.0. Box 272, Hakalau. HI. 96710
email :msa

Other Information

This is a unique place. It is very quiet, simple and welcoming here. I am a local woman born and raised in the Islands, also an artist and a farmer so I have much to offer my guests about the "other side" of Hawaii - the non-tourist side.

Directions

Hwy 19 fr. the Hilo Airport north to 15 mile marker. Left turn onto Wailea. Come into wee village, past Fujii Bakery & 5 doors down on right, bright yellow house with green trim.

Discounts Offered

Reasonable rates with lots of aloha.