Waipouli Beach Resort

The location is within walking distance of Coconut Marketplace and is across the street from a Safeway and some other stores. It is also right next to a pharmacy so you have basically everything you could need for staying. The kitchen area is very large and contains everything you would need to cook up meals in your room instead of going out. We stayed in a room that contained 2 rooms with 3 beds and 2 bathrooms. It was plenty of space for 6 people. The only thing is that the beach is on a coral reef, so it is not a swimming beach because you will get hurt.

We enjoyed our stay for 5 nights. The resort is clean and the pool is awesome! They offer free towels and we rented beach chairs for the week. The front desk is friendly as well. The location was convenient as we could drive to North and South in about 35min. Our only complaint is that they don't clean the rooms daily even though you pay a cleaning fee + a resort fee. Even offering cleaning every other day would be nice.

Let me start with, we had a great time in Kauai, but I would not stay in this resort again. For starters, it is aged quite a bit and has not been kept up as it should be. The furniture is very old and in many cases very worn. The carpet is old and it is coming up and has wrinkles all over the suite. There is no cleaning service during your stay but beware you will be asked to pay a hearty cleaning fee when you check in along with other resort fees. There is only one small elevator per unit and it smells terrible and doesn’t feel like it has been updated at all for quite some time. There are only a few old worn out beach chairs on the beach and the beach is not really usable as the rocks are rough and there hasn’t been a lagoon carved out for guests. There were four beach chairs and a couple of boogie boards in the room which was nice. A really cool thing on the beach is that a monk seal regularly naps on this beach. We loved that. The resort is very convenient to Safeway (walk across the street) so you can walk over for groceries and prepared food as needed. They are very protective of the towels for the pool. You have to sign out a towel and return it daily with a max of 6 towels per day for the family. The towel service is very pitiful, the staff didn’t speak to us and barely looked at us when we came for our towels. The office is only open from 9-4 or 5 so if you need them, you have to wait for operating hours. The oasis restaurant. Was good and service there was great!

We stayed in one of the studio/hotel rooms. It was great. We had a lovely lanai. The room was good but nothing fancy. The location is great. Directly across from a grocery store and various food options--all an easy walk. The pool is fun for wading and lounging but not really for idea for swimming. Beautiful scenery. The beach is lovely to walk on. It isn't really swimmable with the waves and rocks--definitely not for kids. But just a few minutes down the road is Lydgate park which has some great beach swimming. All in all, a great place to stay.

Cockroaches in our bathroom. Staff said they sprayed monthly but a manager said they sprayed quarterly. Slept with our light on to make sure roaches wouldn’t come into our room at night. Was told by manager don’t leave food out, but it was in our bathroom where there was no food. The manager said they are located in a tropical environment and on an island and bugs are a big part of that. But I paid way too much to have to worry about cockroaches. We made sure to shake all of our clothes out before leaving so we didn’t bring any home. They also don’t offer any food or drink service around the pool.