Is Fern Forest Getaway pet-friendly?

Yes, this bed & breakfast allows pets (limit 1 total).

How much does it cost to stay at Fern Forest Getaway?

As of Aug 30, 2025, prices found for a 1-night stay for 2 adults at Fern Forest Getaway on Aug 31, 2025 start from ￥14,556, excluding taxes and fees. This price is based on the lowest nightly price found in the last 24 hours for stays in the next 30 days. Prices are subject to change. Choose your dates for more accurate prices.

How much is parking at Fern Forest Getaway?

Self parking is free at this property.

What time is check-in at Fern Forest Getaway?

Check-in start time: 2 PM; Check-in end time: 10 PM.

Does Fern Forest Getaway provide a shuttle to the airport?

Yes, there's an airport shuttle that runs on request.

Where is Fern Forest Getaway located?

Situated in a national park, this bed & breakfast is 6.1 mi (9.8 km) from Akatsuka Orchid Gardens and within 12 mi (20 km) of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and 2400 Fahrenheit Art Glass. Volcano Garden Arts and Aloha Candy Company are also within 12 mi (20 km).

Fern Forest Getaway Reviews, Deals & Photos 2025

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Nov 11, 2024

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Located near the Volcanoes National Park entrance.

Stayed 4 nights in Nov 2024

8/10 Good

Christopher

Jan 28, 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Cozy, quiet and comfortable with the nicest host!

Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Pete

May 29, 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

Very peaceful, nice staff , will recommend , will return

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Jul 11, 2022

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort

Nice having a full kitchen and laundry. Very nice owners to visit with too.

Stayed 8 nights in Jun 2022

10/10 Excellent

Nhat

Apr 9, 2024

Liked: Cleanliness

The host is nice and friendly. The room is ok.

Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2024

2/10 Terrible

John

Apr 29, 2025

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Don’t Come Here!

This property is in neglected condition. Filthy carpets, chipped dishes, 1/2 kitchen sink inoperative. Outdated furniture, boarded up hot tub on the deck, disgusting barbecue inoperative. Burned on food on the electric cooktop. Super slow internet access.

Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2025

8/10 Good

Robert

Oct 29, 2022

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Fern Forest Getaway

We enjoyed our stay. They owner is very helpful and knowledgeable of things to do an places to see. The property could be a bit cleaner, but we were satisfied with our stay for the price and would definitely stay here again. It is very close to Volcano National Park and about a 30 minute drive to Hilo.

Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2022

10/10 Excellent

Devin

Mar 1, 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Amazing stay, beautiful location, wonderful host.

We loved our stay at the Fern Forest Getaway. The location is beautiful, tucked away in the amazing Fern Forest with lots of space, not far from city activities and surrounded by wonderful sight seeing opportunities. Our Host was very welcoming and helpful with tons of knowledge about the Island history and the best places to visit. Great place for couples getaway or fun with friends and family. I plan to come back next trip. Aloha!

Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Sabryah

Jul 7, 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

Leo was a great host at Fern Forest. It is a beautiful property, very quiet and kind of out off the beaten path. The house itself is beautiful with 3 to 4 room with their own restrooms and refrigerators. The communal living space is awesome if you get lucky, you may be the only one staying there and will have the run of the entire house I will definitely stay again!

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

4/10 Poor

Robert

Mar 24, 2025

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

I would never stay here again.

Well, it started with the host not being aware that we were showing up on the day we had reservations, then we were given someone else's room. You can imagine how uncomfortable it was when they showed up! the bathrooms were not clean, the carpet hasn't seen a vacuum in a very long time and there was a dank smell throughout.

Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2025

6/10 Okay

Eleanor

Oct 22, 2022

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities

Just stayed for one night at Fern Forest Gateaway due to a short drive to the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Unfortunately the place is untidy and in need of repairs.

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2022

10/10 Excellent

Katherine

Oct 12, 2023

Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

We absolutely loved staying at fern forest. It is a conveniently located to all of the sights we wanted to go see. The owner sat with us and made wonderful suggestions for sights to see and places to eat as well as he had knowledge of the history of the area. Every night the frogs sang us to sleep. The house is an older house located in the rain forest and filled with antiques. We quickly felt like we were staying at a friend's house. We would absolutely stay again!

10/10 Excellent

John

Aug 15, 2022

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Best host in the world. Leon bent over backwards to be helpful, even planning things for us to see on the island. There is a full kitchen and three huge common areas, and both indoor and outdoor dining tables. Our room had its own balcony. It is off the beaten path, rustic, and very quiet, but there is a little grocery store at the end of the road. It would be a great place for a large family, as well as for a couple, like us. It was a great location for exploring the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and the Puna coast.

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2022

4/10 Poor

Kurt

Feb 16, 2023

Liked: Staff & service

Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Horrible

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2023

2/10 Terrible

Chris

Dec 6, 2022

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

No one on site and no number to call. Place was so remote with nothing around except an old dog and some chickens free roaming. Walked around property looking for someone and reminded us of how the beginning of a horror movie would start

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2022

2/10 Terrible

John

Mar 6, 2023

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

The property was a mess. The outside needed some serious maintenance. The inside smelled so bad of mold and mildew and was dirty enough for us to not to even stay there. The photos shown are very old photos, it is no where near as nice as it looks in the photos.

Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2023

4/10 Poor

Theresa

Oct 30, 2023

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Disappointed

The facility did NOT match the website description. No pool or hot tub. Very run down and dirty but lots of cleaning supplies left on multiple surfaces. We found another place to stay.

Stayed 5 nights in Oct 2023

2/10 Terrible

Lucien

Oct 17, 2023

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

This place is unkempt, dirty and the air in the entire house is thick with mold. After a brief inspection of the dump we hightailed out of there. This place should not be allowed to do business on the Expedia platform. This place is not fit to be a vacation accommodation. Expedia should do a better job to assure quality control so customers are not misled to believe the Fern Forest Getaway is a place to stay.

6/10 Okay

Yahya A

Dec 4, 2022

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

You will be greeted by a dog sleeping on front porch on a dirty & stinking mattress. Owner doesn't reply to text messages or calls when you need him.

6/10 Okay

michael

Mar 21, 2023

Liked: Staff & service

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities

Our stay at Fern Forest

The house is a bit outdated and a little run down, but overall, the accommodations was a decent night stay and relatively close to Volcano National Park. For what we paid for, we were not expecting a Hilton or a HoJos and nor should you. The bed was comfortable, the sheets were clean, we also had use of the entire living room and kitchen—and pleasantly surprised to a light breakfast (coffee, bagels, peanut butter, jam, etc...), which we made in the morning, and ate on the lanai overlooking the lush property, filled with native vegetation and fruit trees. Leon, our host, gave us great tips on what to do at night, and it was totally worth it. Thanks! Note, the location is in a mostly unpaved road off the main highway, we rented an SUV so it was no problem.

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023

2/10 Terrible

ANN

Sep 15, 2023

Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities

Dirty is being kind. It was FILTHY. I slept in my car. Worse place I have ever stayed in my life and I am a seasoned traveler. The Expedia photos do NOT represent any way, shape or form the actual property or location. I have pictures of disgusting toilet & shower (water came out brown), mold, bugs, smelled like dog urine. Common kitchen area was gross. Place so run down we did not even stay our second night. Awful

Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2023

6/10 Okay

Holly

Sep 28, 2022

Liked: Staff & service, amenities

Disliked: Cleanliness

The far drive on back roads was not worth the stay. Amenities were available and fair but cleanliness was on the bottom scale. My daughter had a good time with the dog on site, but it smelled pretty bad at the entry. No a/c and lounge area had all large windows which made it pretty hot in the house. The curtain rode was jenky and fell apart when I opened curtains so had to carefully balance it up again.

Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2022

2/10 Terrible

Federico

Oct 31, 2022

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Horror in Big Island Hawaii

Beautiful house from the outside. When you approche and you enter is dirty, smelling, old … This house as a big potential, however the cleanness is an option that not available. The bathroom is horrible extremely dirty the floor of the shower was black of dirt and the floor full of dust. The toilet desgusting. Tooth past on the ting. The owner is not looking so friendly. The deco is so old fashioned. The worst place ever.

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2022

6/10 Okay

Neela

Jun 13, 2023

The property was very close the Volcano national park. However you need Google map to find this place because it is in the middle of forest. You need to drive on a 1 lane gravel road. If you have Google map not to difficult to find it. The house was a big, nice house. However, the kitchen and the common area requires good cleaning. There wasn't any cream or even milk powder for a cup of coffee. When we arrived, the host was very nice and explained all about the house and the neighborhood. Only saw him once after that never saw him. The bed and the bathroom was fine. The bathroom could use more cleaning. Overall it was an ok stay.

Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2023

4/10 Poor

James

Jun 21, 2023

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities

This property needs a thorough cleaning. Dirt and dust in the corners, dead bugs on the windowsills, the dining table had crumbs and rings on it from previous renters, the furniture was covered in fleece throws that had multiple cigarette burns in them, and the kitchen garbage was sitting bagged on the floor and SMELLED rotten. The refrigerator had a partial package of raw meat in it, and needed to be cleaned. There were black stains on the bathroom ceiling, leakage from the upstairs bath? Or mold? The host said the outside door remains unlocked in case of late arrivals; not very safe if all you can lock is a hollow-core bedroom door.

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

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