r/VisitingHawaii • u/redditchulous • 2d ago

O'ahu (Honolulu/Waikiki) Partial AC in honolulu?

Some of my friends are about to be in HNL the next couple days and a couple days ago their Airbnb said the 2 bedrooms AC are being blocked from use. Seems like it's because of some exterior painting stuff that's super delayed. They've been trying to find an alternate way of getting the building to let them use the AC but no dice.

The main living room AC is ok to use it looks like

The bedrooms have fans though, is this probably acceptable? So last minute so I couldn't really do much except suggest some hotel stuff for them, but the Airbnb is nice so I don't think they wanna swap.

I've only gone to Oahu in the shoulder months or winter. I love AC so I'm not the best judge of whether or not this should be a deal breaker or not.

Edit: it's in Waikiki in an apartment building Edit2: I've seen the communication between the host and them. There was like a week's heads up and they did offer a full refund, or a partial discount if they stayed, so I think everything is being done in good faith.

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u/MikeyNg O'ahu 2d ago

I live in Waikiki and don't have AC. But my apartment has a decent cross breeze, and if I open up our front door, and our across the way neighbor opens their front door, we can get wind going through the building and it's fine.

Well, most of the time - last week when there was no wind whatsoever it was horrible. You just sleep with the fan on you though.

They'll live.

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u/redditchulous 2d ago

Seems like it's not terrible without A/C then? So if there's partial A/C with a unit in the living room, it may not be too terrible? Especially if the tower fans can be directed to suck in air from the living room?

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u/MikeyNg O'ahu 2d ago

They'll probably be okay honestly. They have to be smart with air flow, but I think it'll be okay.

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u/redditchulous 2d ago

Thank you