A price so amazing you'll be shocked!
Great value is a wonderful gem in this world and very rare. It feels that, at least most the time, when something is very inexpensive then it is also junky. Conversely, if something is well-made/well-thought/filled with quality then it costs a lot of money. But there are times when inexpensive and quality unite and these are moments to remember.
Like right today. Volcom is renting its Pipeline front Gerry House for you and/or your friends to stay/sleep/party. Travel + Leisure magazine breaks down the square feets and let us read together.
On a recent trip to Hawaii for the Volcom Pipe Pro, we got to check out the house firsthand. It was packed to the gills with professional surfers, but sorry everyone, they don’t come included.
Instead, visitors looking to book will find an expansive first floor with floor-to-ceiling glass sliding doors that open up straight to the sand. The open kitchen and large dining area make it the perfect spot for a sit-down dinner for 14 as the sound of the waves crash outside and the cool ocean breeze flows in.
Walk up the short flight of stairs and you’ll be on the home’s second floor. There, you’ll find two bedrooms, both of which open up to decks that once again provide brilliant views of Pipeline. Each bedroom also comes complete with its own bathroom.
On the home’s third floor you’ll find two master suites that each come with private bathrooms as well. Again, both bedrooms open up to a large deck. This deck, however, provides the most expansive views of the beach as you’re perched at the highest point in the home.
Beyond providing visitors with the coolest place to lay their heads at night, the home also comes complete with all the accoutrements you’d need to have an epic beach vacation including coolers, beach toys, chairs, umbrellas, and body boards.
It certainly does sound fantastic, though I don’t why the writer is apologizing to potential guests that the professional surfers don’t come included. It sounds fantastic and expensive. But guess how much it costs?
Really guess.
Ok now I’ll tell you. Sleeping for one night in the phantasmic energy of Bruce Irons and Gav Beschen costs……
…$1000 per night!
So inexpensive I can hardly take it. For the math-challenged this means you could stay with those 13 other people sitting around the perfecto spot for a sit-down dinner for $71 dollars a night per.
The last great good deal. Rent here!
Does that include set waves at Pipe?
Enforcer protection?
To digress slightly, is it possible that over time surfing will become so mainstream that it becomes uncool and embarrassing (we’ve already reached this point) and people stop doing it? Am I being too hopeful. Thoughts?
i feel like the ‘grit’s new side project should be real estate. i think we could win this!
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smells like victory
Looks like you can only rent it (with potential for waves) in mid September and a week in October. Have fun surfing windblown, backwashy 3 foot Pipe.
the same conditions that ADS picked up that surfing award? I can’t recall exactly what it was but it was the day before kelly released his pool video
Half that size, with backwash and even shittier wind.
At least you could claim you ‘Surfed Pipeline”
Does that Volcom stone logo rotate to show the time of day?
Do those body boards also come with an attendant Pipe-Pass which allows you 3 free random drop-ins on any Volcom team rider? They eat reef while you grin inanely, heading straight for the beach.
Sooo many questions!!!
Isn’t Volcom that company that used to be ‘youth against establishment’ then they sold out to ‘the Establishment’.
Ex-Youth Subsumed by The Establishment
Youth Against the Establishment sponsored by Airbnb.
These Volcom Youth’s figured it out that you have to have legal cash to pay the bills sometimes.
Sounds like Volcom is falling on even harder times when they have to rent out their beach pad.
Inclusive of coke?
These additional or extra “accommodations” to be negotiated after the rental agreement is paid in full.
cheaper than a single wave @ wave pool of wave pools and you can get a true north shore education or beat down, depending on your MO.
and news is Slater is building not one, but two or more wave pools next to the original one.
But even if slater builds 7 wave pools, the north shore will have more breaks.
or 30$ hostel down the street. better to keep a low profile on the north shore
Stay in town and make the drive.
No joke…that section by Green World Coffee Farm is always beautiful.
And the food in town is much better. Even more so now that Opal moved to Downtown.
Do they throw the VD from the sheets and beds in for free?
The ad explains how to get to the second floor (“the short flight of stairs”) but not the third… Do the accoutrements include Kaiborg’s gym equipment/pharmaceuticals?
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I believe that’s pronounced accoutramans….
Or, in Hawaiian, “wha you say, Haole?”
Does it come with free slaps or are those extra?
They also don’t tell you that you half of the North Shore will be inviting themselves in for free food and drinks.
“Oh, hi…Eddie….yes, your usual spot on the deck awaits. And yes, I shall bring you a Primo and a sandwich right away.”
Some fucking vacation.
I see you have read Chas’ book. Or have been on the wrong end of some of those slaps? Or given some of those slaps. It says it does not come with ALL of the pro surfers, but do we at least get one grom to sweep up?
I have seen the slaps in person. I won’t tell you who the slapper was or from what world champ’s house that slapper emerged prior to giving said slaps but everyone with a camera made sure they had them pointed the other way when those slaps were meted out.
And I definitely wasn’t the recipient of the slaps because I have no business in the water at Pipe.
Back in the day, you’d get a Kiawe branch to the face for kindly ushering a slobbering dog off your towel, or a broken mouth for offering to buy someone a beer. Nowadays, the violence is less race-based, and much more civilized. What a crazy world we live in.
The HPD also makes a point of hanging around on the better days so I think that keeps the nonsense minimized.
If I was a cop, I’d cruise there too, and issue tickets (or just threaten to issue one, haha) to Kooks for “disorderly conduct,” “harassment,” and various parking and driving violations, haha, that’d be fun.
In between laughing at people almost getting sucked out to Japan and the young ladies on the beach I wouldn’t have much time for law enforcement.
When you say slaps do you mean floozies?
No…real, live, good old fashioned North Shore Slaps™.
If you want floozies you go to Kuhio Ave in town.
Kuhio Avenue is done. No more floozies. Mad Dogs and Big Kahunas are shut down and replaced by Tiffany and Cartier type high end shopping malls. No more hussys roaming that area anymore. Sad.
Trump has them all locked in his basement.
I was going to VOTE UP this comment, but I don’t want Vlad, Ivan, Boris or Natasha coming after me (allegedly) in a dark, San Diego alley.
Piss party!
Oh no! See what happens when you leave for a year?
Not that I’m into that kinda stuff, but the hookers have not left Waikiki.
Well that’s good to know that they are still somewhere out there. It’s cheap entertainment to observe them in their natural habitat while getting a walk around town. I only get over to Oahu a few times a year, and the last few times I saw that Kuhio ave zone really had changed a lot. I didn’t see any hookers walking around Kuhio in clear high heel shoes and it was prime time weekend nights. So where are these ladies of the night now? Or did I just hit an off night or two the last few times I was there. I thank you in advance.
Haha, Kuhio Ave starts by the Ambassador Hotel and ends on the other side of Waikiki, at Kapahulu. They re-developed International Market Place, and added a few new shops here and there, but, for the most part, Waikiki remains the same. The biggest change over the past 10 years has been the exponential increase of homeless people. But to answer your original question, the hookers are basically from Lewers Street to Kapahulu, where they’ve always been. It is entertaining to see them but it’s also pretty sad. Their pimps are nasty. If it was legal, it would be better for the sex sellers. They should have a red light district in Honolulu (prostitutes and marijuana), and use the tax for education and housing. But of course, just like everywhere else, people are dumb, scared, and unwilling to allow others to live a life they disapprove of, even if it doesn’t hurt anyone. Kooks!