00:00 intro
02:54 Fairmont Kea Lani
05:03 Four Seasons Maui
06:28 Grand Wailea
08:37 Makena Beach
Visiting the beautiful beaches at Wailea, and three deluxe hotels.
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The island of Maui in Hawaii is famous for its beautiful beaches and spectacular waterfront hotels. In this program we're bringing you to three of the most wonderful of these hotels, show you around the swimming pools and their dining areas, their gardens, their fountains. These are some of the most spectacular places to stay in the Hawaiian Islands. Even if you are not a guest staying here, their grounds and common areas and restaurants are open to the public. So by all means, you would really enjoy visiting them while you're on Maui.
For a bonus at the end of the show, we'll bring you down to the big beach at Makena, one of the island's very popular recreation areas. Wailea is located in the southern part of Maui. We're visiting the Grand Wailea, the Four Seasons and the Fairmont Kea Lani.
Starting from free parking, we will walk along the coastal path over to Kea Lani, enjoy the grounds and then meander back through the Four Seasons and end up at the Grand Wailea, providing a few tips along the way on how to get around.
If you park at one of the hotels you will pay a fee, but there is free parking at the Wailea Beach Right of way. Look for those yellow gates at the entrance that lead down the driveway to the parking area. There's a park with kiosks and showers and picnic tables, greenery and a barbecue pit and a path that leads you right down to the beach.
You're probably aware of the fire that burned down the town of Lahaina on the west side of Maui. But the rest of the island is definitely open for tourism, making Wailea a great place to visit at this time. Polo Beach is in front of the Fairmont Kea Lani, a luxury hotel that's the only all suite and Villa oceanfront resort in the Hawaiian Islands.
Along with that beach, they've got three outdoor pools for hotel guests, including a big family pool with all sorts of recreational activities there. They have a spa with a variety of treatments, a fitness center with state-of-the-art equipment, a kids club. And there's an adult pool for those guests, 18 and over. There are several dining experiences open to the public, including the signature Ko restaurant, or for a relaxed lunch, head to the AMA bar and Grill as we did located poolside. If you'd like something more casual, there's a convenience store where you can get food to go, maybe have a little picnic down by the beach with prices that are quite reasonable. They have other restaurants to choose from serving everything from casual fare to fine dining. And if you're in a villa, some have their own kitchen.
These three hotels that we are featuring are pretty expensive, with prices that can reach $1,000 per night. But you don't have to stay here to enjoy the atmosphere. Just come visit, walk around in the public areas. You will be always welcome without the aloha spirit, in hopes they might encourage you to come back and spend a few nights.
When finished with your visit to the Kea Lani, step outside the front door and walk along the drive. And you'll see the beautiful golf course, part of the Wailea Golf Club with three courses open to the public.
Next, we're walking over to the Four Seasons resort, just a few minutes away, another spectacular hotel complex with dazzling architecture, open-air lobby.
From the lobby, you have a grand view looking down on the pool fountains and terrace areas with the blue waters of the Pacific Ocean beyond.
Continuing again along Wailea Beach, we've approached a stone border marker that brings us into the Grand Wailea, the largest and most extravagant of all the hotels that we've been visiting there.
The main swimming pool is nearly 2000 feet long with four jungle pools, five slides, a whitewater rapid, Tarzan pool with robe, swing and a swim-up bar.
Each of these hotels offers extensive cultural activities that will inform you about the arts and crafts, lei making and all sorts of history about the Hawaiian Islands. And they are like small shopping malls with plenty of stores to keep you occupied.
Grand Wailea is renowned for its variety of spa treatments, where you can nourish your body, mind and spirit, under guidance of expert wellness consultants.
We are done with our visit, now its time to go back to that free parking and retrieve the car.
And we are now going to take a little road trip a few miles further south, down the road to the great beach at Makena. This public beach park is a popular spot for locals with lots of free parking. It's an easy walk down to the beach through this little cube forest with some magnificent trees.