Flagship
Kohala Coast
Four Seasons Resort Hualalai
The barefoot-luxury benchmark, low-rise bungalows and seven pools including the snorkel-stocked King's Pond.
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For groups
Take over the coast.
Reunions, milestones and company offsites, on an island built for a turnkey high-end week.
Design This TripThe Kohala Coast resorts offer buy-out-friendly venues, broad oceanfront lawns and four championship golf courses within minutes of one another.
We charter a private Fair Wind sail for the group, arrange exclusive farm-to-table evenings with the Merriman's team, and build in private Kilauea touring for the more adventurous.
One point of contact, every detail held.
From the welcome dinner to the airport transfers, a single concierge runs the logistics so the host gets to be a guest.
What’s inside
- Buy-out-friendly Kohala Coast resort venues and lawns
- Four championship golf courses within minutes
- A private group Fair Wind catamaran charter
- Exclusive farm-to-table evenings with Merriman's
- Private Kilauea volcano touring for the group
A sample rhythm
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Gather
Arrivals, a welcome luau or oceanfront lawn dinner.
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Play
A morning of golf or a private group sail, free afternoon.
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The big night
An exclusive farm-to-table dinner under the stars.
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Send-off
A relaxed final brunch and coordinated departures.
The Big Islandwe’d build in
The pieces that fit this trip.
Where to stay
Resorts on the sunny Kohala Coast.
The west side is the dry, reliably sunny coast where the island keeps its great resorts, strung along white-sand bays and black lava fields.
Storied reopening
Kohala Coast
Kona Village, A Rosewood Resort
The reimagined 1965 retreat, 150 standalone thatched hales on Kahuwai Bay, deeply cultural and serene.
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Kohala Coast
Mauna Lani, Auberge Resorts Collection
Oceanfront contemporary luxury set among ancient fishponds and petroglyphs, with the standout Auberge Spa.
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Kohala Coast
Mauna Kea Beach Hotel
The pioneering 1965 Rockefeller resort on the white-sand crescent of Kauna'oa Bay.
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The Fairmont Orchid
Refined, family-friendly grandeur on a sheltered turquoise cove, home to the Spa Without Walls.
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Kohala Coast
The Westin Hapuna Beach Resort
Sits above Hapuna Beach, regularly ranked among the best stretches of sand in America.
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The birthplace of Hawaii Regional Cuisine.
The island grows more of its own food than anywhere in the state, and the kitchens show it, from Waimea ranch country to oceanfront tasting menus.
Farm-to-table origin
Waimea
Merriman's Waimea
Peter Merriman's original 1988 restaurant, a birthplace of the farm-to-table movement in Hawaii.
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Kohala Coast
CanoeHouse at Mauna Lani
Oceanfront modern-Hawaiian tasting menus built almost entirely from island ingredients.
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Kohala Coast
ULU Ocean Grill
Four Seasons Hualalai's seafood-forward room, drawing about three quarters of its ingredients from island farms.
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Kohala Coast
Brown's Beach House
The Fairmont Orchid's signature room, long considered the island's romance benchmark.
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Waikoloa
Sansei Seafood & Sushi
An award-winning institution for contemporary sushi and Pacific Rim small plates at Waikoloa.
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Lava-field links and an over-the-ocean par 3.
Four championship courses sit within minutes of one another on the Kohala Coast, carved through black lava with the Pacific in constant view.
Legendary par-3
Kohala Coast
Mauna Kea Golf Course
A 1964 Robert Trent Jones Sr. classic with the iconic over-the-ocean par-3 third hole.
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Kohala Coast
Hualalai Golf Course
Jack Nicklaus's first design on Hawaii Island, reserved for Four Seasons guests and members.
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Kohala Coast
Mauna Lani (North & South)
Two dramatic lava-field courses, home to the famous over-the-bay South 15th.
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Kohala Coast
Hapuna Golf Course
An Arnold Palmer links course with ocean views from every one of its holes.
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Manta rays after dark, dolphins by day.
Kona's calm, clear water is the island's headline act, home to the world-famous manta ray night snorkel and the sheltered reefs of Kealakekua Bay.
Manta sightings are wild and never guaranteed, but Kona hosts a resident population and the night snorkel runs year-round.
Manta night snorkel
Kailua-Kona
Manta Ray Night Snorkel Hawaii
A top-rated small-group specialist for the once-in-a-lifetime Kona manta ray night snorkel.
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Kailua-Kona
Kona Honu Divers
Among the most-reviewed dive operators in the Pacific, the gold standard for the manta night dive.
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Keauhou
Fair Wind Cruises
Family-run since 1971, the flagship morning catamaran to Kealakekua Bay and the Captain Cook Monument.
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Keauhou
Sea Paradise
Two manta tours nightly with a sighting guarantee, a free re-book if no manta appears.
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Kailua-Kona
Manta Ray Advocates
A conservation-led shore-entry manta snorkel guided by marine biologists.
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Private Group Retreat
Let’s design it around you.
Share what you can already picture. A concierge fills in everything still open and sends back a plan, not a quote.