King Hale has got to be one of the best places to stay in the North of Kauai. The kitchen is huge... with many working spaces available for many people to be preparing dinners. Great appliances, cookware, and the knives were amazing (usually in a rental, I find cheap dull knives). The wifi is very strong... six of us were all working at the house with great internet speeds. The house is equipped with many beach chairs, boogey boards, snorkel equipment, beach towels, and even a few pairs of water shoes. The concierge hooked us up with a message therapist that came to the house. The only challenge we had was that the house is fairly remote, and we didn't want to drive 1-1.5 hours one way to get to the South and west of the island for dinners or to boating and snorkeling tours out of Elee or Port Allen. We were in Kauai in March... a little too early for boating out of the North Shore. The cute town of Hanalei is a 15 min drive - shopping, grocery, and restaurants. Hanalei bay is a fabulous beach where you can take surf lessons and snorkel. Hanalei dining - Make reservations ahead of time for Bar Acuda and Ama, Postcards is nice too. Dolphin has a wonderful fresh fish market (get there early for already prepared foods like Poki and rolls. Dolphin restaurant is first come first serve dining- lots of variety on the menu and nice servers. We also enjoyed horseback riding
at Princeville Ranch, Golfing at Princeville Makai club, Kayak and hiking tour at Alii Kayaks (an absolute must), Mountain Tubing Adventure, snorkeling at Tunnels beach, hiking the sleeping dragon. There is so much to do on Kauai!