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Wailea
Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea
Maui's benchmark of beachfront luxury on Wailea Beach, with the island's largest rooms and an open-air oceanfront spa hale.
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Hawaii · Maui
Maui, from the summit to the sea.
Sunrise above the clouds at ten thousand feet, Molokini by midday, a torch-lit dinner in Paia. We plan the days only Maui can string together.
The destination, curated
Maui hands you a 10,000-foot volcano sunrise, the calmest snorkeling in Hawaii, and one of the great drives on Earth, often inside the same forty-eight hours.
Ways to experience Maui
Six trips, one place.
Start with the version of Maui you came for. Each is designed end to end, with the activities and stays that fit.
For two
Luxury Honeymoon
The rare island where high romance and genuine Hawaiian culture sit side by side. We weave both into the week.
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For families
Private Family Villa
Separate bedrooms, full kitchens, and the gentlest water in Hawaii for first-time snorkelers.
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Active and restorative
Adventure & Wellness
Bookend the hard-charging days with deep recovery, on the coast and up in the cool Upcountry air.
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For groups
Private Group Retreat
Reunions, milestones and offsites, on a coast built to host the whole group at once.
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For food lovers
Food & Chef Experience
Maui's most famous rooms, paired with private dinners built on day-boat fish and Kula produce.
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Comfortable and inclusive
Accessible Luxury Travel
Wailea is the most accessible luxury base in Hawaii, and the big views come without the climb.
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Wailea and Kapalua, the two luxury coasts.
Maui keeps its great resorts on two sheltered, sunny coasts: Wailea in the south and Kapalua in the west, each a short walk from calm water.
Family flagship
Wailea
Grand Wailea, A Waldorf Astoria Resort
Grand-scale family luxury famous for its canyon pool complex with slides and the 50,000-square-foot Spa Grande.
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Kapalua
Montage Kapalua Bay
All-suite residential luxury above one of Maui's calmest snorkeling bays, with gourmet kitchens and Spa Montage.
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Wailea
Andaz Maui at Wailea Resort
Contemporary design on Mokapu Beach with a photogenic tiered infinity-pool complex, home to Morimoto Maui.
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Wailea
Fairmont Kea Lani, Maui
Maui's only all-suite-and-villa luxury resort, with generous space and the award-winning Fairmont Spa.
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Kapalua
The Ritz-Carlton Maui, Kapalua
Secluded, nature-driven luxury across thousands of West Maui upland acres, with golf, hiking and cultural programming.
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Wailea
Hotel Wailea, Relais & Châteaux
Maui's only Relais & Châteaux property, an adults-only 72-suite hilltop hideaway with sweeping ocean views.
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From the fisherman's name on the menu.
Maui's tables run from the most famous fish house in Hawaii to clifftop tasting menus, with the catch often listed by the diver who landed it.
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Paia
Mama's Fish House
Maui's most celebrated restaurant, the daily catch listed by fisherman in a torch-lit Paia cove. Reserve months ahead.
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Kapalua
Merriman's Kapalua
Peter Merriman's Hawaii Regional Cuisine flagship on a clifftop point looking out to Molokai and Lanai at sunset.
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Morimoto Maui
Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto's poolside room at the Andaz, blending Japanese and Western technique with local fish.
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Wailea
Ka'ana Kitchen
The Andaz's open-kitchen, farm-to-table flagship celebrating Hawaii's farmers and fishermen with ocean views.
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The Restaurant at Hotel Wailea
Romantic hillside fine dining and tasting menus with panoramic sunset ocean views, at Maui's Relais & Châteaux hotel.
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Spago
Wolfgang Puck's Hawaiian-Californian oceanfront room at the Four Seasons.
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Molokini at dawn, Lanai by sail.
The signature Maui mornings happen offshore: the sunken crater of Molokini, the channel crossing to Lanai, and humpbacks breaching in winter.
Whale watching is seasonal, roughly mid-December to mid-April, when Trilogy and PacWhale run naturalist-led tours.
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Lahaina / Maalaea
Trilogy Excursions
Maui's original family-owned sailing company, famed for the Discover Lanai sail with a beachside barbecue.
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Maalaea / Lahaina
PacWhale Eco-Adventures
Maui's only nonprofit ocean operator, where every Molokini snorkel and whale watch funds marine research.
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Kihei
Redline Rafting
A fast, small-group rigid-hull raft reaching the Molokini Back Wall and remote South Maui sites before the crowds.
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Maalaea
Quicksilver Maui
A large catamaran running easygoing Molokini snorkel-and-grill day sails out of Maalaea.
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The clearest water in Hawaii.
When the south swells lie down in summer, Maui's shore snorkeling is among the best in the islands, turtles, reef fish and the occasional monk seal.
Conditions are seasonal: Honolua Bay snorkels beautifully in summer and becomes a winter surf break. We time it to the swell.
Conservation district
West Maui
Honolua Bay
A Marine Life Conservation District in West Maui with vivid coral and abundant fish, at its best on calm summer mornings.
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Kapalua
Kapalua Bay
A protected, gentle crescent often called Maui's best beginner snorkel, fronting the Montage.
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Ka'anapali
Black Rock (Pu'u Keka'a)
The lava promontory at Ka'anapali, an easy shore entry over reef and green sea turtles.
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Makena
Turtle Town (Maluaka)
The reef system off Makena's Maluaka Beach, named for its resident honu.
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Sea cliffs and hidden valleys.
The roadless heart of West Maui and Molokai's tallest-on-Earth sea cliffs only reveal themselves from a helicopter, with a doors-off option found nowhere else on the island.
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Kahului heliport
Air Maui Helicopters
The only doors-off helicopter tour on Maui, over West Maui and Molokai sea cliffs, waterfalls and remote valleys.
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Kahului heliport
Blue Hawaiian Helicopters
The island's largest operator, flying the ECO-Star on West Maui, Molokai and Hana-Haleakala routes.
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Kahului heliport
Maverick Helicopters
Premium EC130 flights with Complete Island and West Maui tours, and private charter options.
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The most authentic luau in Hawaii.
Maui is home to what many consider the gold standard of the Hawaiian luau, alongside polished resort shows on the Wailea and Ka'anapali oceanfront.
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Lahaina
Old Lahaina Luau
Widely regarded as Hawaii's most authentic luau, rebuilt and reopened oceanfront after the fire, now table-service.
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Ka'anapali
Drums of the Pacific
A 45-year Polynesian journey at the Hyatt Regency Ka'anapali, with imu ceremony and a Samoan fireknife finale.
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Honua'ula Luau at Grand Wailea
A resort luau on the Grand Wailea oceanfront lawn in the heart of Wailea.
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Sunrise at 10,000 feet, a bamboo forest to a falls.
Maui's walks are unforgettable: dawn above the clouds inside Haleakala's crater, and a green-tunnel bamboo trail to a 400-foot waterfall past Hana.
Haleakala sunrise needs a separate vehicle reservation for 3 to 7 a.m. entry, bookable 60 days out. We secure it the moment your window opens.
Bucket-list
Upcountry summit
Haleakala Summit & Sunrise
Sunrise above the clouds at 10,023 feet inside the dormant volcano's vast crater, a true bucket-list morning.
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Kipahulu
Pipiwai Trail & Bamboo Forest
A 3.8-mile out-and-back through towering bamboo to the 400-foot Waimoku Falls, in coastal Kipahulu past Hana.
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Wailuku
Iao Valley State Monument
A short, lush walk to the iconic 1,200-foot Iao Needle in the misty West Maui Mountains.
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Islandwide
Hike Maui
The island's original certified-naturalist guided-hike company, since 1983, with gear and transport handled.
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Hydrotherapy circuits and oceanfront hales.
Maui's resort spas are destinations in themselves, from the largest spa in the islands to open-air treatment hales steps from the sand.
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Spa Grande, Grand Wailea
Maui's largest spa at 50,000 square feet, anchored by the Termé hydrotherapy circuit of Roman tubs and Swiss showers.
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Spa at Four Seasons Maui
Open-air oceanfront treatment hales steps from Wailea Beach.
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Fairmont Spa, Kea Lani
A 22,000-square-foot sanctuary with rainfall showers, hot lava-stone footbeds and a mud bar.
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Kapalua
Spa Montage Kapalua Bay
A 30,000-square-foot retreat with a co-ed aqua thermal experience and West-Maui-inspired treatments.
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Kapalua
Waihua Spa, Ritz-Carlton Kapalua
A Hawaiian-healing spa with a guided cultural arrival ritual and indoor-outdoor treatment hale.
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A PGA TOUR opener and ocean-view fairways.
Maui's resort golf is world-class, led by the Plantation Course that opens the PGA TOUR season and the trio of Wailea layouts in the south.
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Kapalua
Kapalua Plantation Course
The Coore & Crenshaw masterpiece that hosts the PGA TOUR's season-opening Sentry, carved into the West Maui Mountains.
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Kapalua
Kapalua Bay Course
An oceanfront resort course with par-3s playing across Oneloa Bay, the gentler companion to the Plantation.
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Wailea
Wailea Gold Course
A Robert Trent Jones Jr. thinking-player's course threading ancient lava walls with sweeping ocean views.
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Wailea Emerald Course
A tropical, flower-lined RTJ Jr. design rated among the most playable resort courses in the country.
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The road to Hana, a sunrise bike descent, the canopy.
Some of Maui's best days are active ones: one of the great drives on Earth, a volcano descent on two wheels, and racing zip lines over rainforest.
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Road to Hana, Valley Isle Excursions
Nearly 30 years of eco-friendly Hana tours in reclining-seat Comfort Cruisers, with breakfast, lunch and local guides.
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Haleakala / Upcountry
Haleakala Sunrise & Bike Descent
Bike Maui's volcano sunrise followed by the coast down the famous switchbacks through Upcountry on premium bikes.
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Kapalua
Kapalua Ziplines
Maui's only all-dual racing zipline course, two miles of cable over rainforest plus the state's longest suspension bridge.
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Lahaina
Goofy Foot Surf School
Lahaina's longest-running surf school since 1994, beginner-friendly group and private lessons.
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Maalaea
Maui Ocean Center
A world-class living-reef aquarium and Hawaiian-culture center on Maalaea Harbor, a polished all-ages stop.
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Timing is the whole trip.
Whale season (Dec to Apr)
Humpbacks fill the channel from mid-December to mid-April, peaking January to March, prime for sails with Trilogy and PacWhale.
Summer is for snorkeling
Calm south-shore water and the best shore snorkeling, including Honolua Bay, arrive in summer; winter brings the big surf.
The sweet-spot months
April to May and September to October bring warm, drier weather, lighter crowds and lower rates between the peaks.
Haleakala sunrise permits
A separate vehicle reservation is required for 3 to 7 a.m. summit entry, opening 60 days ahead. Slots sell out fast, so we book the moment yours opens.
Your Maui
Let us build the Maui you came for.
Tell us the shape of the trip you can already picture. A concierge fills in everything still open and sends back a plan, not a quote.