I recently stayed here for eight days.
I thought I'd save money by staying there.
It was a big mistake.
First I'll list the positive things about my
studio condo. It had good hot water. That's it!
Here were the con's for me: My condo on the sixth floor
needs an elevator.
Twice it stopped working when I had a hand full of groceries.
I had to walk up stairs. The noise level on the street below was loud with many vehicles thundering by.. The bed bugs I'd find on the sheets every morning was terrible.
The so called kitchen was primitive to say the least. The desk personnel were
at best indifferent. There were two exceptions..
When I mentioned that the primitive DVD player didn't work, I was told by desk lady that the owner of the condo studio was aware. The owner, lives far away on the mainland.
I also had to put in my own batteries for the remote. The TV went off many times.
It was manufactured in 1985.
If I could do it all over, I'd stay somewhere else!

This place is for easy going well traveled people who want save a $100 a night over what the other two hotels on Banyan Drive charge. The rooms I've stayed in are comfortable, clean and quiet. The former conference room on the ground floor is a Hula Halau. Seeing the kids and parents coming and going to hula practice gives this place an added warm feeling.

Stayed here for most of a month after I moved to Hilo, while I was looking for a real place to rent. Definitely not luxury--in fact Banyan Drive in general is pretty run-down; it looks like it was probably a nice tourist area 30-40 years ago, and hasn't been updated since. This place is laughable as a "country club," and I certainly wouldn't feel very "vacation-y" staying there. Still, my room was pretty clean and reasonably comfortable, if small, and it served my needs. The public areas are old and pretty dirty. There's a bar/club on the ground floor, so sometimes there are random drunk people wandering around; I'm a single female and my dad (who stayed with me for a few days) was concerned about my safety, but I was never hassled. They're serious about the parking--when I forgot to put my parking permit on my dashboard they stuck a "parking violation" sticker to my window that I still haven't been able to get totally off. The wireless worked (most of the time) from the "lobby"--a few chairs and a couple of tables on a covered slab of concrete.

Overall, I'd look elsewhere. If you're wanting a cheap place to stay, I haven't tried the hostels in Hilo, but look into those. If you're wanting a nice place to stay, there are many lovely bed and breakfasts on this side of the island. There are also plenty of vacation rental options. This place isn't that bad, but it's certainly not good, either.

My family and I were staying in a Kona resort but needed a hotel room on Hilo side for one evening so we could visit the volcano at night and not drive all the way back to Kona. We were given the name of this hotel by an employee at our resort. Upon arriving at the "Country Club" Condo hotel, we noted people hanging outside the office (which is actually just a desk) smoking and drinking. The hallways and grounds were filthy. The room they showed us smelled musty and had not been updated since the 1960's. The bed had a huge sag in it. I did not even venture into the bathroom to see what that looked like. The odors in the hallway were so vile that I ran out of the building wretching. This place looks and smells like a tenement. Stay away!