Posted on 09/21/2014 10:00:21 AM PDT by george76
A Colorado couple are suing the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa, alleging that the resort had a bedbug problem and failed to tell them about it last year when they stayed at the hotel.
Aaron and Sharon Tucker of Aurora County, Colorado, booked their stay at the Hilton Hawaiian Village on July 30, 2013, and were not told about a bedbug infestation, they said in the lawsuit.
The couple claim they suffered from bedbug bites during their stay from Aug. 24-31, 2013, and claim they continued to be bitten after returning home,
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A search through bedbugregistry.com found several complaints regarding the Hilton Hawaiian Village, as well as several hotels and hostels in Waikiki and around Honolulu.
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Not putting Hawaii down. Just that a person has to be the right mindset to live there permanently.
No doubt.
And it sounds like a great life. There are probably a lot of food items that would be popular because the island is isolated. And it follows the basic economic law of supply and demand.
Apparently there areas where a fireplace is needed; at higher altitudes. Portions of the islands are well above thousands of feet in altitude.
I’m not sure what their poop might look like, but they seemed to stay near the floor, so I imagine I vacuumed it if there was any there.
I’m in tampa and know what you mean about spiders. I have found if I am very aggressive about eliminating g their food supply they are far less numerous.
I have noticed that spiders seem to be a bit resistant to insect spray.
If I see one, I will spray it with whatever can is handy. It begins to affect them immediately but it takes a long time for them to actually die.
Yep same thing here. Fire works but it’s kinda hard on the house. Kill their food and they move themselves out.
spiders don’t clean their feet like an insect does
I stayed there in 90`s and there weren`t any bugs anywhere coz there were MILLIONS OF FROGS everywhere.
43 years
I am envious. :)
as others point out , super high costs of living ( the Jones Act)
It’s nice being somewhat removed from all the insanity that surges elsewhere , but at the same time we are not immune . No one over 40 has forgotten Pearl Harbor . I like to remind the youth . I like to remind Japanese ....
Pearl Harbor. Absolutely. We visited the Arizona. Very humbling.
I am worried that Americans have forgotten it and take it all for granted.
Scary times in our history, though.
I was amazed at the amount of Japanese living on the islands...Not a friendly bunch at all...I suspect there are not many actual native Hawaiians left on the Islands...
Those few natives that are left seem to want a new apartheid where they can rule the state. Obama seems to support it.
The side of the island where Kona is is barren. It is a small part of the island. The rest of the island is far from barren. It has rainforest and the northern part of the island is green rolling hills with spectacular ocean views. The Puna area is a ways from the volcano and lava flows and is a gorgeous area. It also has very affordable real estate. Lots of truck farms in the area and fruit everywhere. Hilo is still a fishing village where you can go pick out which fish you want to eat for the day at the fish market.
Most people have a very skewed view of Hawaii. They think It is all like Waikiki or Kona. Far from it.
BTW, the diagonal highway is nice (SH200)! It is new and we were one of the few cars on it.
Our observation...
The whole west side of the Island was mostly lava fields (except around Kona). The airport is surrounded by rolling lava fields for miles and miles. King Kamehameha's “birth place” (north west) is all lava fields.
The North and East are lush and green. This is contrast to all of Maui was is mostly lush and I imagine Kauai is even more lush than Maui.
It was explained to me that it is because the Big Island is newer and hasn't had the millenia for the forests to fill in and the weather to wear down the rocky lava terrain.
The couple on Buying Hawaii bought a place north of South Point. It was in the high risk lava plane. There wasn't any water or electricity and it was in a very rocky lava field. They paid around $250K for it.
You can buy a freshly built house on 1 acre in Hawaiian Paradise Park for $250k WITH electricity etc. and it is quite a ways from the lava fields. Whatever tv show you were watching.....they got hosed.
“Buying Hawaii.” Thanks for the information!
Go to hilobrokers.com. For location put in Puna. The prices are absolutely reasonable.
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