Maui, United States

Hotel Wailea

Price per night from$1,001.51

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Style

Suite surrender

Setting

Muted side of Maui

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At adults-only Hotel Wailea, where lovebirds flit among swaying palms, babbling brooks invite quiet meditation, and lounging in a poolside cabana nursing handcrafted cocktails is practically a rite of passage. There’s space to sprawl in this arcadia, too: the hotel is set back from the island’s beach resorts, with a clutch of sea-view and garden suites occupying 15 acres of pristine sun-dappled lawns and tropical fruit orchards.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

72 suites.

Check–Out

Noon, and check-in is at 3pm. Both are flexible, subject to availability, and early arrivals are welcome to stow luggage and make use of the pool until their suite is ready.

More details

Only rates for the Celebration Ocean View One Bedroom Suite include breakfast; otherwise, à la carte options are available in the main restaurant (or in your suite) for around $80 each.

Also

There’s an ADA-approved suite but some facilities, including the fitness studio, have stairs.

At the hotel

Free WiFi throughout, and free shuttle service to local beaches and attractions. In rooms: TVs, air-conditioning, tea- and coffee-making kit, free bottled water, sodas and snacks, and Molton Brown bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Designed by notable Hawaiian interior designer, Philpotts, Hotel Wailea’s 72 spacious suites blend Polynesian tradition with modern playfulness. Stately oak floors and carved mango-wood furnishings meet offbeat island art pieces, and deep (very deep) bath tubs. All of the suites are sea-facing, meaning that even if you can’t see the big blue, you’ll still benefit from those sweetly scented ocean breezes. But for the full package, the smart money’s on the seaview suite — ask for one on the first floor for the best bragging rights.

Poolside

Surrounded by palms and lush jungle vegetation, the resort’s triangular saltwater pool is open 24/7. Poolside cabanas are on a first-come-first-served basis, or can be reserved up front for a fee.

Spa

No spa, but the hotel can organize treatments including facials, body polishes and classic Hawaiian lomi lomi massages in your suite, on request.

Packing tips

It might seem counterintuitive to pack your winter thermals for a sunshine vacation in Hawaii, but if you’re planning to catch a technicolor Haleakalā sunrise (as you should), they’re precisely what you’ll need. Temperatures at the volcano’s summit are significantly lower than down on the beach, so don’t spare the woolly hats, mittens and earmuffs.

Also

The resort’s treehouse-style fitness studio brings a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘jungle gym’, with inspirational views that admire the ocean and islands beyond.

Children

Sorry kids, Hotel Wailea is just for grown-ups.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

You’ll get the best sunset views from the main restaurant terrace, but choose intimate nooks in the Japanese-style garden below for after-dark stargazing.

Dress Code

No dress code, but there’s no better time to don flamboyant botanical and animal prints come cocktail hour in Hawaii.

Hotel restaurant

Dinner’s a big deal at Hotel Wailea’s restaurant, where menus showcase fresh Hawaiian flavors, served with cinematic sunset scenes of the West Maui Mountains and neighboring islands. Ingredients are hyper-local and dishes change with the seasons. Start with salads plucked from the slopes of Haleakalā, before gorging on lobster and lamb mains, remembering to leave space for dessert. Ask to try the behind-the-scenes kitchen table experience to see the chefs in action, and book in advance for private dining at the Treehouse, where it’s just you, the chef and seven tasting courses high among the mango and avocado tree-canopy. 

Hotel bar

Resident lovebirds flutter between alcoves at the Birdcage, a laidback open-air lounge with a sprawling cocktail umbrella as a roof. Much like the interiors, the food and drink here is far from understated: pair Japanese grill specialties, caviar and sashimi with colorful bird-riffing cocktails that include a Blue-Footed Booby and, ahem, Im-Peckable Daiquiri. If you aren't ready to part with your lounger, light bites and tipples are served poolside, too.

Last orders

Breakfast is served from 7.30am; staff fly the Birdcage after last orders at around 9.30pm. The pool bar opens from 10am (food starts at 11am).

Room service

You can dine privately on your terrace during normal restaurant opening hours, 7.30am–9pm.

Location

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Address
Hotel Wailea
555 Kaukahi Street
Wailea
96753
United States

Hotel Wailea lies in the western foothills of Maui’s Herculean Haleakalā volcano, surrounded by 15 acres of tropical gardens, and a short shuttle ride from several beaches.

Planes

Kahului Airport is around 30 minutes north of the resort by car. Private transfers and taxis can be arranged on request.

Automobiles

You can rent a car at the airport, but you may decide you don’t need one: Hotel Wailea provides free shuttles to and from beaches and other attractions in the area. Or you can go full Blue Hawaii-era Elvis in a sporty vintage convertible, available to rent at the resort for full or half days. There’s free parking in the grounds.

Other

Island-hoppers rejoice: regular ferry services connect Maui to the neighboring Hawaiian islands of Oahu, Molokai and Lanai.

Worth getting out of bed for

Aerial yoga, Pilates sessions and lazy lounging in poolside cabanas are typical low-tempo options at Hotel Wailea. But if you fancy topping up your Hawaiian tan at one of the local beaches, well, that doesn’t require much effort either: house cars will breeze you to the golden sands of Wailea, Ulua and Palauea in minutes. 

Maui’s south-west coast is also in pole position for the great annual whale migration, between December and April, when calving humpbacks cruise into Hawaii’s warm waters. Watch them from the beach, or join the resort’s guided canoe whale-watching excursions to get up close to these tail-slapping leviathans. Alternatively, you can ogle Maui’s kaleidoscope of native marine critters year-round on snorkeling and scuba trips to Molokini, a partially submerged volcanic crater just a few clicks off the coast.

Local restaurants

Skip the beachfront resorts and set your radar for authentic Maui dining. You don’t need to know the difference between a birdie and a bogey to bag a table at Gather on Maui, set in the grounds of Wailea Golf Course with sweeping views of Haleakalā and the Molokini crater. The menu scores a hole-in-one with dishes that harness maximal local flavors — try ahi tuna poke, miso-marinated catch of the day and a trad-take on pineapple upside-down cake.Wailea Village’s Koast is a breezy, casual affair, offering further adventures in the island’s fresh ingredients. Share a whole fried fish or go it alone with clam fritters and crispy pigs’ ears.

Local cafés

Hawaiian coffee is the stuff of legends, and you’ll find scorched-earth brews from the slopes of Haleakalā in most Maui cafés worth their salt. Old-school stalwart Grandma’s and relative upstart Akamai are locally loved picks.

Local bars

There are more than 30 craft beers on tap at the Kohola Brewery, and a solid selection of burgers, tacos and sandwiches will help soak up all those pale ales and pilsners. Over at Wailea’s glossy Tikehau Lounge, it’s all about the cocktails, each themed around local spirits and seasonal fruits, herbs and spices. Inventive, camera-friendly favorites include the negroni served with a Kula strawberry ice cube, and an ocean-blue Thousand Peaks cocktail complete with jasmine seafoam and miniature surfboard.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from their Hawaiian hideaway in the Haleakal? foothills and unpacked their stash of volcanic coffee beans, a full account of their child-free break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Hotel Wailea on the island of Maui…

One of the first things you notice about adults-only Hotel Wailea is just how much space there is. Whether you drink it all in with a welcome glass of champagne beneath the lobby’s cavernous canopy; as you squirrel out secret hiding places across the garden’s 15 leafy acres; or while soaking up widescreen views from your ocean-facing balcony.

This is a resort that — even with all 72 suites occupied — feels far removed from the Valley Isle’s bustling center. There are no kids here, no crowds and no need to hurry. Days are spent listening to the tranquil trilling of native birdlife, the gentle rush of the ocean at dusk and the soft clink of cocktail glasses down by the pool.

In the open-air restaurant, chefs conjure authentic Maui masterpieces with garden-fresh ingredients and tropical bird-themed tipples set senses aflutter in the Birdcage lounge. Out in the orchards, freshly plucked mangoes, papayas and bananas leave an aftertaste as sweet as this retreat’s island locale.

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