Aloha Jason, interesting vlog. I enjoyed the lava fields, somehow I find them fascinating. As for the rain, I must, tell you here on the Sunshine Coast has been raining on and off for the last two year. We had about ten days of Sunshine and it was lovely but now it's raining again. As for the Air B&B it's not pleasant to have such experience, but since you paid you couldn't walk away. That Hippie town reminds me of Byron Bay back in the 80s. I loved the shrine that you came across. How long have you stayed in Hawaii?
Oh really? Yeah some places are more unpredictable right? The same here back in NL. Our summer had a very slow start this year. heaps of rain! I heard about Byron bay indeed . The airbnb thing was weird but I can adapt and I left honest feedback for them to change it.
I would contact Airbnb and skipped out of that place to be honest. Since you've commented about car culture in America vs where you are from Europe I would be interested in your take as to why that is. To me I haven't been to Europe but I have been to Japan and love the public transport there (at least in the major cities as rural places generally need a car) and I think the zoning in America is a big problem. In Japan you can easily walk to a convenience store / drug store / doctors office and all kinds of commercial businesses within a neighborhood. In America that basically never happens. Instead you have huge sections almost entirely dedicated to residential housing and then huge areas for commercial businesses. The only cities I've been to in the US with what I consider good public transport to potentially make a car not needed are San Fran and New York- Manhattan. Both are geographically restricted and hence have a fairly population dense area great for public transport. To a lesser degree Seattle has a somewhat decent although more limited system. America also seems much more spread out and rural. Take your trip to Hawaii for example- was either location you stayed at within 30 minutes of a major grocery store/drug store? Probably not and those are most likely several hundreds of thousand dollar homes.
Yeah I gave it the benefit of the doubt because I just got there and didn't want to change immediatly. But it was definitely strange the whole week. I left him a very honest long feedback but not a negative public one. I want to give people the chance to improve and not be this kind of person that walks away and says "all was good" and smack them with a negative review online.
I think the USA is not very clear on it's own rules many times and they are to flexible with the rules. Taking right turns on red?? very dangerous because it's a window where 2 lanes could meet, aka accident potential. Also on the motorway they can overtake left right or the middle, to me it's like American roulette, Here that's very illegal. You only overtake on the left and that's it. Next to that the teenage drivers learn driving with their parents, they get their licenses as if it was in a Kellogs box. Then there is the customisation stuff, what is this? Disney land? Driving a car is serious, all these crazy things make it dangerous and look more like a game maybe. And yes walkability is non existend in the USA, I also caught myself driving from one car park to another where I would normally just walk that bit. It doesn't invite walking at all.
Report him to Airbnb. You were sharing a bathroom with someone who injects himself? The yelling and the whispering. Do your fellow travelers a favor and report him. He will have to clean up his act or get kicked off the Airbnb platform. None of this is the fault of the traveler. If you left right when the troubled started Airbnb would have refunded you. The guy needs to know how to run a hospitality business. He probably get paid by the government to house that guy. Choose one or the other Mr. Owner, hospitality or rehab center.
I gave the owner the benefit of the doubt and I didn't want to leave again and pack my stuff etc, the other stuff I noticed during the rest of the week and yeah if I would have known before I wouldn't have stayed there but I figured I need a place to work and that the rest of the day I would just be away. The owner told me he just started to rent out that particular room and normally doesn't do that. He has only good reviews on Airbnb for the other unit in the front. So I reckoned it wasn't malicious or anything. And I didn't want to be that person that leaves and says "yeah all was fine" and slam him with a nasty review afterwards. So what I did was leave a normal review on the platform but I left him a personal message and honest opinion and feedback, so he can improve. I want to give people a chance to improve. So maybe he did something with the advice who knows. I am not here to judge anybody
Aloha Jason, interesting vlog. I enjoyed the lava fields, somehow I find them fascinating. As for the rain, I must, tell you here on the Sunshine Coast has been raining on and off for the last two year. We had about ten days of Sunshine and it was lovely but now it's raining again. As for the Air B&B it's not pleasant to have such experience, but since you paid you couldn't walk away. That Hippie town reminds me of Byron Bay back in the 80s. I loved the shrine that you came across. How long have you stayed in Hawaii?
Oh really? Yeah some places are more unpredictable right? The same here back in NL. Our summer had a very slow start this year. heaps of rain! I heard about Byron bay indeed . The airbnb thing was weird but I can adapt and I left honest feedback for them to change it.
I would contact Airbnb and skipped out of that place to be honest. Since you've commented about car culture in America vs where you are from Europe I would be interested in your take as to why that is.
To me I haven't been to Europe but I have been to Japan and love the public transport there (at least in the major cities as rural places generally need a car) and I think the zoning in America is a big problem. In Japan you can easily walk to a convenience store / drug store / doctors office and all kinds of commercial businesses within a neighborhood. In America that basically never happens. Instead you have huge sections almost entirely dedicated to residential housing and then huge areas for commercial businesses.
The only cities I've been to in the US with what I consider good public transport to potentially make a car not needed are San Fran and New York- Manhattan. Both are geographically restricted and hence have a fairly population dense area great for public transport. To a lesser degree Seattle has a somewhat decent although more limited system.
America also seems much more spread out and rural. Take your trip to Hawaii for example- was either location you stayed at within 30 minutes of a major grocery store/drug store? Probably not and those are most likely several hundreds of thousand dollar homes.
Yeah I gave it the benefit of the doubt because I just got there and didn't want to change immediatly. But it was definitely strange the whole week. I left him a very honest long feedback but not a negative public one. I want to give people the chance to improve and not be this kind of person that walks away and says "all was good" and smack them with a negative review online.
I think the USA is not very clear on it's own rules many times and they are to flexible with the rules. Taking right turns on red?? very dangerous because it's a window where 2 lanes could meet, aka accident potential. Also on the motorway they can overtake left right or the middle, to me it's like American roulette, Here that's very illegal. You only overtake on the left and that's it. Next to that the teenage drivers learn driving with their parents, they get their licenses as if it was in a Kellogs box. Then there is the customisation stuff, what is this? Disney land? Driving a car is serious, all these crazy things make it dangerous and look more like a game maybe. And yes walkability is non existend in the USA, I also caught myself driving from one car park to another where I would normally just walk that bit. It doesn't invite walking at all.
Report him to Airbnb. You were sharing a bathroom with someone who injects himself? The yelling and the whispering. Do your fellow travelers a favor and report him. He will have to clean up his act or get kicked off the Airbnb platform. None of this is the fault of the traveler. If you left right when the troubled started Airbnb would have refunded you. The guy needs to know how to run a hospitality business. He probably get paid by the government to house that guy. Choose one or the other Mr. Owner, hospitality or rehab center.
I gave the owner the benefit of the doubt and I didn't want to leave again and pack my stuff etc, the other stuff I noticed during the rest of the week and yeah if I would have known before I wouldn't have stayed there but I figured I need a place to work and that the rest of the day I would just be away. The owner told me he just started to rent out that particular room and normally doesn't do that. He has only good reviews on Airbnb for the other unit in the front. So I reckoned it wasn't malicious or anything. And I didn't want to be that person that leaves and says "yeah all was fine" and slam him with a nasty review afterwards. So what I did was leave a normal review on the platform but I left him a personal message and honest opinion and feedback, so he can improve. I want to give people a chance to improve. So maybe he did something with the advice who knows. I am not here to judge anybody