Grand Wailea Resort
Hotel Information: A tree-shaded esplanade curves toward a majestic lobby with an open-air waterfall pond inlaid with mosaics. A meandering network of pools leads to famed Wailea Beach. With immaculate grounds and an extensive art collection, the 40-acre Grand Wailea Resort attracts families, leisure travelers, and celebrating couples.
Amenity highlights: The resort's seven restaurants and lounges include a terrace bistro, a thatched-roof seafood restaurant, a Japanese tea house, and a swim-up bar. Spa Grande offers about 100 treatments (surcharge), many using island-grown ingredients. The 2,000-foot water canyon includes nine interconnected pools, as well as slides, waterfalls, grottos, and spa tubs.
Insider tip: The resort's art collection features original paintings, sculpture, graphics, murals, and artifacts by such artists as Fernando Botero, Fernand Léger, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol. Works from regional artists are also represented.
Spread over five wings, the Grand Wailea Resort - The Waldorf-Astoria Collection’s 780 air-conditioned guestrooms have island-inspired decor, louvered doors, ceiling fans, and private, furnished lanais.
Starting at 640 square feet, the spacious Wailea rooms offer high-speed Internet access (surcharge), 27-inch TVs with premium channels, CD players, granite-top writing desks, minibars, coffeemakers, and in-room safes.
Marble bathrooms have oversized tubs, separate glass-encased showers, bathrobes, phones, and signature Spa Grande toiletries.
All guestrooms are nonsmoking.
Hawaii
- $195: 3-star Outrigger Regency Beach Walk + Get 5th Night Free, Book by 12/21/2007
- To Honolulu $1127 from Phoenix: flight + 3 nights hotel (PHX-HNL)
- To Honolulu $1147 from Oakland: flight + 3 nights hotel (OAK-HNL)
- To Honolulu $1159 from Los Angeles: flight + 3 nights hotel (LAX-HNL)
- To Honolulu $1191 from San Francisco: flight + 2 nights hotel (SFO-HNL)
Hawaii Accommodations
Hawaii
Price: $15*
(Blue Dolphin)
Discover the wonders of America's island paradise with Hawaii magazine.
Merchant: Blue Dolphin
Hawaii For Dummies®
For newlyweds, singles, or families, Hawaii For Dummies covers everything necessary to plan the perfect trip: Charts to help determine which island to visit A wide assortment of planning tips and information on package tours, getting the best airfare, suitable accommodations, and
Merchant: eBooks
Pauline Frommer\'s Hawaii
The lowdown on Hawaii’s finest beaches, from the popular to the secluded, as well as the best windsurfing, surfing, and kiteboarding spots The best deals on accommodations–budget hotels, the thriving vacation-rental and condominium market, farmstays, campgrounds that are practica
Merchant: eBooks