Late Check Out Kit

Honua Kai Cafe Late Check-Out Kit

If you live in the Mid-West or the East coast your plane leaves Maui at 9 PM or later and you checked out at 11 AM that morning from your villa.  What do you do during that time?  Well here’s some ideas that might help you.

• My renters can stay until midnight if there is no renter checking in at 4 PM that day – you might ask your rental agent to do the same thing
• Your parking sticker, at the Honua Kai, simply states your check out day – that $10/day you paid is for 24 hrs of parking a day.  So move your packed bags to your car and leave it in the underground garage until you leave for the airport
• The Honua Kai issues wrist bands for the last day of your visit – go down to the pool shack and get wrist bands for your family before 11 AM
• Rent a Gazebo for $45 for the day or $35 from noon onward.  Your family now has a super location for a day of fun
• Have a day of fun in the ocean or at the pool and then use our “Late check out kit” to clean up
• Make reservations at Duke’s for 5 PM (do this a couple of days in advance) and have a full tummy as you head for the airport
• Leave for the airport 3 hours before your flight takes off

Cleaning up

Before having dinner at Duke’s, your family will have to clean up.  North of the Honua Kai is a public park with beach access that the Honua Kai paid for.  Owners like me paid millions of dollars to deed the land to Maui and build a fantastic restroom with outside showers – I here by give you permission to use the showers and restrooms to clean up.

Simply take out our “Late check out kit” and head for the showers.  Inside the kit is a bar of soap and shampoo to use at the shower – keep your swimming suit on and shower up.  I see Maui locals doing this after a day at the beach so no one will think it odd that you clean up.  Hey, that local’s house is probably worth more than yours so if it’s good enough for them it’s good enough for you.  Then use the restroom to change into your cloths for your flight home and put your wet bathing suit and damp towels into the zip bag and put it into your car in the underground parking lot at the Honua Kai.

That’s it – have dinner at Duke’s and head for the airport.

Late Check Out Kit

We built this kit and use it – even as owners at the Honua Kai!  (Assuming there is a renter checking in at 4 PM that day).  All the parts can be bought from Wal-Mart and cost just a few bucks and can be recycled for use on other vacations.

What makes this kit work is the heavy duty 10-gallon plastic zip bag – not the zip lock bags in the kitchen section at Wal-Mart but sold in the ironing section at Wal-Mart.  This bag has a huge plastic zipper with a plastic guide and is waterproof.  Once you place the parts for the kit inside of it and zip it close there is a white valve that allows a vacuum cleaner hose to suck the air out of the bag.  That vacuum squeezes the towels together and holds everything in a tight package that won’t rattle around.

List of parts (From Wal-Mart):

• 1 -medium size Zip bag – by the irons and ironing boards
• 2-thin Towels – use during the day at the pool/ocean and then to dry after shower
• 1-bar soap
• 1-shampoo
• 1-comb
• 1-mini-hair dryer
• 1-toothbrush
• 1-tooth paste
• 1-deodorant

Place the above list of parts in zip bag and hook to vacuum cleaner hose to remove air and squash everything into a thin package.  When packing, the morning of departure, take out the Late Check-Out Kit and have ready.

After changing cloths, put the wet towels and swimming suite in the zip bag which will keep them from other cloths.

Of course this isn’t needed if you add a day to your initial reservation, then you can shower and change in 5-star comfort.  But that’s expensive and sometimes can’t be done because of scheduling conflicts with the next renter into your villa.