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.
Starting at 640 square feet, the spacious 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.
