A day before we were to arrive on Kauai we received a notice from the resort we had booked, that they would not be able to accommodate our reservation due to maintenance issues. We booked Plantation Hale Suites as it was the only available option we could find the day after Christmas and the day before we were to arrive! While the resort was pretty well kept, clean, service outstanding and location great, the facilities certainly show their age. Mainly the cooking appliances in the kitchen, the sofa bed and the bathroom. Range/oven seemed to have 2 settings, high or off. Microwave could hardly melt butter. And pretty sure I slept on that sofa bed at my grandmother's house in 1980 before she got rid of it. We were certainly grateful we had the place to stay given the circumstances, but not quite up to our usual standards. In terms of lodging, Think more Super 8 when we try to shoot for the Hampton or Holiday inn level. For price comparison, it was a few hundred dollars more last minute than the 2 bedroom oceanfront condo we had booked 7 months prior. Overall though it kept us from having to cancel our trip and served the purpose.