ASAP deperate help, Hanalei Faye Estate and Cottage

Hello! Everyone has been incredibly helpful here and I am desperetely in need of any review!

Has anyone ever been in or stayed at the Hanalei Faye House and Cottage on the North Shore?

I would LOVE LOVE LOVE and appreciate any comments, we are about to book TODAY, thanks SO much in advance, you guys are awesome!

kirs

ASAP deperate help, Hanalei Faye Estate and Cottage

Hey Kirs! I haven%26#39;t stayed at this place, but you know how I feel about it. We%26#39;ve walked past it a hundred times and always thought it looked awesome.

One person who might know about it is Dave820 who frequents this forum. Dave, it%26#39;s the house right next to the access path to Hanalei Bay off Weke just a couple of clicks up from Aku.

Good luck and aloha!

Andrea

ASAP deperate help, Hanalei Faye Estate and Cottage

Aloha from Kaua%26#39;i!

I too have never stayed there but certainly know about it -- and drool over it everytime I drive down Weke Road!

J.F.K. Junior stayed there (among others) -- it gets used sometimes by production companies who get all their writers together for ';workshopping'; in paradise -- ';The West Wing'; did this a couple of years back. Many movers and shakers have stayed there.

The local history is equally impressive -- the Faye family is one of the oldest kama%26#39;aina families on the island -- they also own the Waimea Plantation Cottages on the West Side -- where they started way back in the mid 1800%26#39;s in the sugar industry.

My feeling would be if you have any chance at all to stay there -- grab it! It is a very historical place as well as a comfortable Kennedyesque type compound (those long lawns for touch football!)

Can%26#39;t beat the location either!

Malama Pono,

Janet

Never slept there but I%26#39;ve been inside for a couple of different functions. The Faye%26#39;s area an old plantation era family that bought the 5 acres it sits on for something like $500-1000 in the 1920%26#39;s. It%26#39;s still family owned but they rent it to pay the property taxes etc which are high as the land is worth probably $15-20 million. The house would be a teardown for a mega millionaire if they sold the property.

From what I remember, the house itself is pretty old. Nothing too fancy but it%26#39;s been years so they could have done anything since. You won%26#39;t be able to top the location though. Sorry, I just don%26#39;t remember much about the house.

They%26#39;re a really nice family. Very active in local charities etc. The Waimea Plantation cottages are theirs also so you may get some sense of how they approach restoration/decoration from looking at the info on that property as well.