Kona the coffee. We stayed on a Coffee Plantation in the nice apartment over the large garage on the Big Island. It was a great location and we were nestled in among more than 100 coffee trees on the side of the mountain overlooking the town of Kailua-Kona. This area did not match my expectations of a coffee plantation but it is typical for the area with scores of people growing small acreage of coffee trees. Our host’s trees produce about 7500 pounds of coffee each year. We enjoyed the local beans he produced with the free coffee provided with the rental. We did not bring any home because he does not sell his coffee retail and the pure Kona coffee on the island was between 65 and 90 a pound. We enjoyed our morning coffee and an occasional cup in a coffee shop.