For more detailed information on each accomodation, click on the pictures or scroll down. Call TOLL FREE 866 886-5226 or email us: innkeeper@volcanoguesthouse.com. We came for one night and decided to stay four. This is the best night's sleep we've had in Hawaii. And whatever we need is right here so the whole family can relax.. The Lambs, Sterling, Alaska. The Cottage sleeps up to six, $130 per night for the first two, $15 per extra person, full kitchen and bath. We have been renting The Cottage to visitors since we moved into our bigger house in 1985. The bedroom, up a flight of beautiful Koa wood stairs, has Koa trimmed windows on four sides, with a queen and two twin beds. The windows themselves are antique, reclaimed from officer's quarters on Oahu. It's a magical room to wake up in. Downstairs, in the Great room are two more twin beds. The Cottage has the feel of an old-time Volcano summer cabin, complete with family antiques, hand-me down furniture, and a short tub/shower that is 50 years old and looks it. Except for the beds. They are new and comfy. TV, VCR, telephone. Claudia's Place sleeps up to three, $115 per night for the first two, $15 per extra person, full kitchen and bath. We built Claudia's Place, a mother-in-law apartment, which shares a front porch with our house, in 1995, for Alan's mother, Claudia. There's a queen bed in the bedroom and a twin bed in the living/kitchen room. It has beautiful antique maple floors, recycled from a 1910 wareghouse in Oakland, California, refinished one piece at a time. We salvaged and reused beautiful 1940s windows from Diamond Head military housing that was being demolished in the 1970s. The spacious bedroom and bathroom were designed for wheelchairs. TV, VCR, telephone. Twin I and Twin II each sleep four, $115 per night for the first two, $15 per extra person, full kitchen and bath. The Twins were finished in June, 2001. Their floor plans mirror each other and they share a large lanai between them. Each has a bedroom alcove with a queen bed that can be made private by closing a shade. In the spacious living room are two twin beds. The lavatory is in the large dressing room. The huge beautiful box windows are trimmed with redwood recycled from old Volcano water tanks; the sills are made of Ohia wood cut from trees cleared to build the cottages. Like Claudia's Place they are designed for wheelchair accessibility. TV, VCR, telephone. The Upstairs sleeps four, $115 per night for the first two, $15 per extra person, kitchenette and bath. The Upstairs, our only unit with two bedrooms (one with a queen bed, one with two twin beds), is upstairs in our house, and has its own bathroom and dining/kitchenette, with microwave, toaster, rice cooker, coffeemaker, refrigerator and sink (no stove). Every room has two windows looking out at the top of the forest. It is where our kids used to live, until they went away to college. Now you can stay there and help pay their tuition. You enter through the front porch and our living room, but don't worry, you don't even have to knock. We sleep in the back of the house so you can come and go whenever. Both bedrooms have beautiful wood-lined dormers, and one has a built-in koa dressing table. Also a nice roomy tub/shower. TV, VCR, telephone.

Lava flows view. Local Style Comforts so you can relax and enjoy! In 6 acres of native high-altitude tropical rainforest, five minutes from Ka'u desert. Where Windward meets Leeward. Each unit designed and built by owner/operators Bonnie Goodell and Alan Miller, who have designed and built over a dozen cottages for local people in Volcano. Alan specializes in fine finish work of local and recycled woods. Bonnie is a planner and designer specializing in sustainability. This is a sustainable village in progress. Front porches open on our private village lane. You can park near your door. Windows look out on the forest. Maggie is old now, and deaf, but she still likes to visit. The viewing garden is right in the middle, with natural (fed by rain, not pumped) waterfalls and ponds. Five minutes from Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and Volcano Golf Course. 30 miles from black sand beaches with the sea turtles. Six great restaurants located in Volcano Village and the National Park. Many local naturalists and artists who'll share their work. Our ducklings, hatched 3/28/08. CASUAL Just Make House as we say in Hawaii. Hot spa and wi-fi hot spot. Each unit's kitchen has rice cooker, refrigerator, stove, microwave, toaster, and traditional mis-matched utensils. Each unit has a phone, TV, VCR. Cottages have porches and outside sinks available. Claudia's Place and the Upstairs have access to our front porch, where the goodies are. Family, Kid, and wheelchair friendly. You can wash your laundry in our front loading washer and hang it in our greenhouse laundry center. We live right here, so you can borrow stuff. We share books, umbrellas, basketball hoop, videos, advice, local politics, cooking supplies, our favorite walks. Simple breakfast materials available 24 hours a day. No schedule, no fuss. ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY Solar assisted hot water. We are proud of comfort we provide while keeping our energy use very low. Forest maintenance to protect natives species. We'll show you. You can even help, if pulling ginger is your cup of tea. For more information on our environment sustaining efforts, visit our eco tourism site,

Places to Go, People to See. Links to our friends. Watch the gas plumes from the Halemaumau vent and the Pu'u O'o current eruptive vent, on a map updated several times daily, by the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. is now offering great, easy riding, well-supported (ranger guides, lunch, van, wine-tasting) bike tours in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Add a day in Volcano for that. Eco-tropical Resorts is the only eco lodgingsite we know of that verifies that the lodging goes beyond options to keep your towels overnight. Hawaii Volcano Observatory of the U.S. Geological Survey has a great site with plenty of current European information and background. You can print out their stuff to use as a travel guide when you are at the eruption site and elsewhere around this island volcanic laboratory. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park has a site that includes a downloadable travel guide. is another great local marketplace type site with incredible graphics, lots of great pictures, and links to local artists. is a great website to find ecotourism resources in Hawaii. is a gallery for local artists in Hawaii Volcano National Park. It also offers a wide variety of programs, including hula and Hawaiian crafts. Hugh Montgomery's Hawaiian Walkways is a great contact for guided forest hikes around the island. is halfway down the hill to Keaau, and is very busy these days processing, packing and selling coffee from the dozens of new small coffee farms springing up in Puna and Ka'u. a great place to stop. is a bonsai nursery, training center, and bonsai mail order business in Kurtistown, between Volcano and Hilo. They have some truly amazing old trees in various styles. If you aren't familiar with bonsai, you can see some on their site. specializes in small, guided excursions to see Hawaii's unique native bird and plant species. Spectacular views, excellent photographic opportunities, and information about Hawaii's Geology, Archaeology, Mythology and History. Oahu Nature Tours is committed to work towards the continued enjoyment and existence of our magnificent but endangered natural treasures. Native Hawaiian Hospitality Association. Annette's Adventures follows the principles of ecotourism, which means protecting the local ecosystems and cultures through responsible travel. Her specialty is putting together tour packages to Hawaii's unique, off-the-beaten-track places of natural and cultural significance, by finding interesting outings and excursions and reasonably-priced travel options throughout the islands. Adventures in Paradise: Sea Kayak Snorkeling Adventures. Hawaii Affordable Vacation Rentals

Physical Address: 11-3733 Ala Ohia Street Volcano, HI 96785 USA. Mailing Address: P. O. Box 6 Volcano, Hawaii 96785. Local: (808) 967-7775 TOLL FREE: (866) 886-5226. If you are looking for a relaxed, friendly, home style atmosphere in unusual surroundings where we work to preserve the environment, look no further! We live right here, so you can borrow stuff and help with gardening if you choose. We share books, umbrellas, basketball hoop, videos, advice, local politics, cooking supplies, our favorite walks. You can wash your laundry and hang it in our greenhouse laundry center. Simple breakfast materials available 24 hours a day. No schedule, no fuss. Let the rest of them sleep in while you linger over your coffee and go for a walk. We are proud of comfort we provide while keeping our energy use very low.

Volcano Guest House Volcano Hawaii Blog. Is Ecotourism obsolete? 05/25/08 @ 02:46:57 pm, Categories: We think of ecotourism as a choice. Recently the national innkeeper and BB organizations were buzzing with ecotourism as the new trend and hints for;greening.; Events overtake us. Here in Hawaii, as elsewhere, hopping on a plane for a jet-fueled few days will no longer be an option for the vast majority of us. The silliness of the fossil-fueled rat race;eco-vacation; is coming to an end. So; those of us old enough to remember what it was like, time to jam the whole family in one car and head mauka (up the mountain) to hang out, talk-story, read, play games, cook and eat, walk, learn the forest plants, birds, bugs, and fish. For a week or two, all together, in a cabin we go back to year after year, adding new stories every time. Did we call that ecotourism? Of course not. It was what we could afford. It used almost no fossil fuel, and we had a great time. Of course it won;t be exactly the same, unless we banish cell phones and tvs. Omigod! Okay, we might have to ease into this relaxation thing. It might take some practice and training. We could bill it as our own;survivor; for those of susceptible age. Sneak it up on them. 05/17/08 @ 09:07:50 pm, Categories: b2evolution uses old-style permalinks and feedback links by default. This is to ensure maximum compatibility with various webserver configurations. Nethertheless, once you feel comfortable with b2evolution, you should try activating clean permalinks in the Settings screen; (check;Use extra-path info;). Apache optimization... folder as well as in there are two files called [. ]. You should try renaming those to [. This will optimize the way b2evolution is handled by the webserver (if you are using Apache). These files are not active by default because a few hosts would display an error right away when you try to use them. If this happens to you when you rename the files, just remove them and you;ll be fine. By default, b2evolution blogs are displayed using a default skin. Readers can choose a new skin by using the skin switcher integrated in most skins. You can change the default skin used for any blog by editing the blog parameters in the admin interface. You can also force the use of the default skin for everyone. Otherwise, you can restrict available skins by deleting some of them from the /blogs/skins folder. You can also create new skins by duplicating, renaming and customizing any existing skin folder. To start customizing a skin, open its;; file in an editor and read the comments in there. And, of course, read the manual on evoSkins! Skins, Stubs and Templates... By default, all pre-installed blogs are displayed using a skin. (More on skins in another post.). That means, blogs are accessed through;;, which loads default parameters from the database and then passes on the display job to a skin. Alternatively, if you don;t want to use the default DB parameters and want to, say, force a skin, a category or a specific linkblog, you can create a stub file like the provided;; and call your blog through this stub instead of index.php. Finally, if you need to do some very specific customizations to your blog, you may use plain templates instead of skins. In this case, call your blog through a full template, like the provided; You will find more information in the stub/template files themselves. Open them in a text editor and read the comments in there. Either way, make sure you go to the blogs admin and set the correct access method for your blog. When using a stub or a template, you must also set its filename in the;Stub name; field. Otherwise, the permalinks will not function properly. Let's blog about Hawaii, the Volcano, and Eco-tourism. Ecotourism Future is Past l33t_gray (current skin)

 Playground for children
 Credit cards accepted
 Dinner may be served in the room
 Disabled guests are welcome
 Facsimile services
 Access to internet
 Kitchen
 Laundry services/washing machine
 Smoke-free guest rooms
 Private park, garden, courtyard
 Quiet surroundings
 Clock/radio
 Fridge
 Private/Ensuite bathroom
 Tea and coffee making facilities
 Phone at reception
 Phones in rooms
 TV sets in rooms
 Patio, summer terrace
 Cheques accepted