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Rainbows End Surf Hostel Details
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Location/Contact| Address | 221 Baldwin Avenue, Maui (Paia), Hawaii, USA |
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| Website | www.mauigateway.com |
| Telephone | +1 (808) 579-9057 |
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Hostelz.com Guest Reviews
Psychotic Owner The owner, Ricki, is psychotic. He yells at people for no reason and reprimands his guests like they are his own children. He talks about how he loves to fight. Keep signed receipts of your rent and deposits otherwise he often has no recollection that you paid. The facility is filthy. The front porch and common room stink like dirty feet from all the shoes that have just been left there by people over the years. The mattresses are loaded with bed bugs. His wife will dump her kid
off with guests while she goes to run errands and Ricki stole the fins off my surfboard. This place should be torn down. You're better off camping than staying at this roach motel. — Maui Loacal , USA (2011-01-14) One of the best hostels in Maui This is a hostel and is not a sterile resort hotel. My husband and I stayed here for a week recently and loved it. The staff was so nice. The place was quiet and bright. The managers there had only started about 3 weeks earlier, so everything about bad management are hopefully null and void. They were busy painting, cleaning, organizing. Nice bright rooms (at least ours was). The 3 private rooms also have a private deck and private kitchen. Pai'a is a much nicer town than Wailuku where most of the other hostels are. Pai'a only has one organic grocery store, but their prices were any more than the big grocery stores (on some items anyway). The staff was nice and easy going. Nice common room with TV, movies. Free WIFI. Well stocked and organized kitchen. The bed was a flat hard futon. Almost humorous. The kitchen was indeed full of roaches and roach poop. We just washed everything before we used it and were fine. The counters were all kept very clean. We would definitely go back again. — Leslie P , USA (2009-09-14) Home away from Home This place is one of the best hostels I have ever been to. EVER. I've been traveling alone all around Hawaii for over five months now. This was the first place that brought such a strong feeling of community into my life. I felt welcome by the guests and the staff. It's clean and safe. It's a great place for a traveling family, surfers, and social people. — Airen , USA, SF (2009-07-18) Find something else! I visited this hostel about five years ago, just for a few days, and enjoyed it, So I decided to return this year when I was in Maui. I was amazed at how far the place had slid downhill. The management is flaky (stoned all the time), and lazy. In addition, the management and owners let stray cats, and their dogs come in and out of the house as they please. This place is not for allergy sufferers! Very little cleaning is done, tons of dust, cockroaches, and millipedes. The owner, Riki, is crazy. He harasses the guests, yells at them for no particular reason, and revs up his motorcycle for ten minutes outside the dorms at eight in the morning. His wife, Kristina, uses the hostel guests as part time babysitters and is very annoying. As with most hostels, the other guests there are very enjoyable. Unfortunately, the house, the management, and the owners are not meant for public service. I would recommend camping out of a rental car. Banana Bungalow is dirty and has bedbug problems. — David , USA (2009-03-25) Clean and friendly I stayed here for one week, and other people I met in this hostel stayed even longer. It seems that they changed the management and the staff, because there were strict rules about cleaning up and everything was somehow clean. The only thing I have to say, bring your earplugs, so many people snore there! All in all, a good place to stay, they have everything you need, hot shower, Wi-Fi, TV, linen. — Knut , german (2009-01-07) They must be violating so many health codes Gosh, I wish I had read these reviews before we left for Maui. We were very excited to move to the Rainbow Surf Hostel in Paia, which is such a cute little town. First of all we could not check in until after 5 p.m. because the people in our room had not left yet (Don't they have check out times for a reason?). Our first night we were excited to cook because we had bought some gorgeous vegetables from a farm. So excited in fact that we persisted in cooking even after finding several large cockroaches in the kitchen. But when I was doing the dishes a spider well over two inches across came running out of the dish-rack. We decided not to cook again and to spend as little time as possible in the kitchen, but we should have found another place to stay. Throughout our four-night stay we saw several cockroaches over two inches, the last night being the kicker when a nuclear sized cockroach climbed up the wall right at the head of the bed and then a five-inch centipede scurried out from under the bed. And appearently these things give a mean sting. Thank God that was our last night in the dump known as Rainbow Surf! We slept with the light on and checked out early the next morning. Despite having a lengthy list of rules posted about cleanliness and where you can and cannot eat and wear shoes, this is the dirtiest place that I have ever stayed. Being from Arizona I have seen a lot of cockroaches and know that if your place is clean you can easily avoid them. Rainbow Surf Hostel needs an exterminator and a cleaning lady, and even then I would never consider staying there again. — Jaime , USA (2008-08-13) Never again This place is pretty nasty. Its dirty, i was told by one of the long term residence that they had bedbug problems and to be careful and you need to be very careful with your belongings. Oh, and the owner is nuts. I caught him down the street one day yelling at someone for no apparent reason. Everyone around, including the coffee shop owner were shocked. He then just walked away mumbling and grumbling to himself. Avoid this dump. not worth the trouble. — Michael benz , German (2008-02-17) Pretty Crappy! I just got back to Oahu after spending three nights in this place. First, when I called the day before to let them know I was coming they told me they had no record of my deposit and reservation. However they did honor it by letting me stay in the night manager's room. If all you're looking for is a place to crash at night then I guess it's ok because it's cheap. The bathrooms were pretty nasty and I did not want to use the shower because the floor was grimy and the sink had the same gunk on it every night when I brushed my teeth. I think I'd rather camp next time and shower in the park. I tried the place out because I'm on Maui for work a lot. This place is not for locals. Oh yeah, I came home late one night and there were guys looking at porn mags on the front deck. Need I say more? — Hauula Boy , Hawaii (2007-07-03) Wow, we had a weird experience with this hostel. We were there for our honeymoon in 2005 and we wound up not even staying one night or maybe just one night but, I dont recall even sleeping there. All I know is that while my husband was doing Tai Chi outside on the grass, the owner or someone came up to him and yelled at him for "poisoning the grass with his feet" and he couldn't practice in the yard. Everyone in the house seemed stuck up, we were chipper and said "hello" and people didn't really even pass a glance. Very uncomfortable situation! We wound up leaving. I would not recommend this place to anyone. — Ashley , USA (2007-04-13) The location is great and the building is colorful but everything is extremely dirty and covered in dust. It looks as if most things, except for the bathrooms, have not been cleaned in years. There is a rat problem in the cottage and the management is unstable. There are many locals living here and people getting kicked out for no reason. — anonymous (2007-03-10) Having never stayed at a hostel before, i was expecting the worst, but got one of my most memorable experiences to the hawaiian islands. CJ (the gal that was running the hostel) kept everything clean and was the coolest. Had no problems with bugs while I was there. Couldn't have asked for a better stay! Met such great people and I am definitely coming back! Ten-minute walk to the beach and downtown Paia. — Kandi (2007-01-02) Wonderful place! Highly recommend it. Riki and Kristina are very generous, kind people who care deeply about their land, environment, and love hawaii. their love is contagious. They have the cutest little son, most beautiful baby!
The hostel is extremely clean, the rules are very fair and hats off to Riki for continuing enforcement, as it's not an easy task. I had a wonderful time and hope to come back. — Olga (2006-12-13) I stayed here about two years ago and had an amazing experience. Although I was only here for a week, it was truly home. I made friends from around the world that I still stay in touch with. I would absolutely, most definitely go back. Affordable, clean, homey, cool wall paintings. I loved it. — girl from Santa Cruz (2006-07-11) I stayed at Rainbows End a few years ago, when I arrived on Maui.
I found it to be a great place in which I felt safe and respected by the owners, and during which time the folks staying at the hostel where of very dynamic backgrounds and temperments, which made for a wonderful experience for me. Kristina was about to give birth and was a joy to be around. I found her maternal support and information about the island itself very valuable. I really enjoyed Riki as well, as he stands for integrity and awareness amidst an environment that attracts alot of young surfers, travellers, students, etc, who may not have deeply formed ways of being in the world with respect and integrity. I really appreciated talking to him about surfing and Hawaii, and that both of the owners live with passion and vision for the hostel and their lives. This helped me feel safe and welcome, and the direct communication made it easy to know where I stood as I was doing work/trade. The clean, basically quiet environment made this spot a perfect place to call
"home" for the few weeks I stayed in Paia. — Purusha (2006-05-26) I lived at this hale there for a month. Riki the owner runs Rainbow's End like a tight ship, which isn't surprising b/c he did 4 tours in Vietnam. I can say for sure that he is a badass _only_ to people who deserve it, and when people do act up, he boots them. Be respectful and he treats you fine. He is a clean freak, yes, but you know what? It's kind of good, because this place is spotless. I've never seen him yell about toilet paper. That's dumb. Parking spots? Yes, b/c they're so limited. Park your car right and he won't grumble. Pretty simple stuff. Riki and his wife are cool, good people and I recommend the place highly. And if you want to learn about Hawaiian culture, Riki is your man, and he will love you for asking. Aloha. — Jenn (2005-12-27)