Everyone has a different standard of perfection--the important thing is to know your own parameters; the joy in travel is when you find (or stumble across) them. Mine have been as simple as a picnic under the stars and as exotic as a night alone in an elegant, Balinese-inspired house. I experienced both at Holualoa Inn. I rarely post reviews but I had a night there that I'll never forget.  It started when I slipped off my shoes before walking through the main rooms. Brian greeted me with a glass of fresh guava juice from the property (the inn rambles over serveral acres of fruit trees and a growing coffee farm). Brian also charms your time there with homemade treats like fresh avocado bread, stuffed french toast and a sunrise of fresh fruit in the morning. Kat walked me through the house, where the flow of one room to another, joined together by long floors of eucalyptus, feels like a Balinese version of a fairy-tale castle -- every fairy-tale should have a freshwater swimming pool, a sumptuous bed, and breakfast made as you wake up, shouldn't it? Posted on Tripadvisor January 28, 2012.