Aloha friends!
We hope all of you are staying safe and healthy. These are challenging times for everyone. I think we all have our sights set on that future when things will begin to feel safe and secure again.
In preparation for that time, we here at Arnott’s Lodge have been busily beautifying, renovating, and repairing our home. We hope that when the time comes that guests can begin to move about freely again we can provide the safe, clean, secure place that we’ve always provided, but as bright and beautiful as we can make it.
Our staff have worked hard to improve and perfect our surroundings in the recent months. We’ve renovated our outside stairwell, replaced carpeting in several rooms, touched up tile, and spruced up shelving. We’ve corrected concrete cracks, power-washed, scrubbed, and re-arranged. We’ve fixed fencing and re-painted walls. We’ve looked through the lodge and found the things that could use a little love and given them our undivided attention. We think the result of all of this effort is a place with even more character and charm for our guests: a shining gem in Hilo.
Andras spent several weeks sanding and re-finishing all of our wooden tables and benches, as well as finishing our gorgeous new mango-wood counter at our reception area after Leo helped us install it.
Jasmine deep-cleaned and showed some love to all of our tour vehicles.
Ed, Donna, Jasmine, Siobhan, Lauren, and Sarah have been working to add some painted charm to many areas of the lodge.
Mike has helped in every area to brighten our walls and appliances where they need it.
Donna and Bear have contributed to the island by organizing trash cleanups at local beach parks.
David and Traven have assisted us in creating new and improved manuals for our tour guides so that we can continue to provide the best tours possible.
As you can see, we’ve been busy! We will always be improving and planning and creating here at Arnott’s Lodge. This pandemic was unexpected and unwelcome but we will use this time to look towards a better future and as always, do the best we can.
Wherever you’re from and wherever you’re headed:
We look forward to seeing you soon on your next visit to Hilo!
