Experience Serenity at Hotel Wailea, South Maui
At Hotel Wailea, the first thing you’ll notice are the beautiful waterfalls lining the walkway to the lobby. Nestled on a hillside in South Maui, this adult-only hotel offers an atmosphere of tranquility. While the beach isn’t visible from the hotel, seven famous beaches are just a short drive away.
A Sanctuary for Adults
Hotel Wailea is not just another resort. With only 72 intimate suites, it offers a peaceful, adult-only retreat. Guests consistently rank it among the best hotels in Hawaii, and recent suite renovations and culinary upgrades have only enhanced the experience.
Relax and Rejuvenate
Hotel Wailea is more than a place to stay. With new wellness options and a focus on exceptional cuisine, it’s a sanctuary for relaxation and indulgence.
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The View from a Celebration Suite
The sense of privacy is maintained throughout. As Hawaii’s sole member of the exclusive Relais & Chateaux group, the hotel was originally designed as a private Japanese members’ club. Its 15-acre gardens provide a secluded feel, while ocean and island views add to the serenity.
Children are welcome in the restaurant, but not as hotel guests. This contributes to an overall peaceful atmosphere, where romantic couples enjoy the pool without the noise of children splashing around.
The Hotel’s Salmon Sashimi
Pool Setting
For maximum privacy, four cabanas are available by reservation or walk-in, depending on availability. These prime spots offer a perfect setting to enjoy the culinary offerings. Notably, a Snake River Farms Ribeye is featured as a side dish, along with other main options like a poke bowl with sashimi-grade ahi, a mahi mahi sandwich with chimichurri crème fraîche, and sambal-marinated shrimp summer rolls with cucumbers, carrots, cilantro, nuoc mam dressing, and peanut sauce.
Beach Setting
Beach Setup & Picnic by the Beach Concierge
Guests can request hotel transfers to nearby beaches like Palauea Beach, ideal for swimming, snorkeling, and spotting sea turtles, or Po’olenalena Beach Park, perfect for both swimming and leisurely beach walks. For a special day, guests can enjoy a curated beach picnic from a local gourmet store, featuring meat or vegetarian sliders, cured meats, cheeses, crudites, and fruit. The picnic is set up with a tent and chairs by the hotel staff.
The Elevated Menu at The Restaurant at Hotel Wailea
Miso Poached Lobster with lemongrass red curry, micro cilantro, heirloom carrot, peanut crumble, local squashes, and kaffir lime-scented rice served at The Restaurant at Wailea.
On property, the main restaurant, The Restaurant at Hotel Wailea, is the alfresco setting with killer views for elevated breakfasts such as Eggs Benedict with Ahi and Ricotta Pancakes with seasonal fruit and likikoi cream. But it really shines at dinner with a three course prix fixe featuring dishes such as Hamachi Crudo with watermelon aquachile and avocado mousse and Snow Crab Fettucine with crispy garlic, lemon zest, miso onion and black truffle.
The Birdcage Restaurant
The Birdcage restaurant.
In the center of the main building, just past reception, the circular Birdcage is the setting for blazing sunsets and dinners featuring items prepared with the Japanese Binchotan Grill. It really is also a birdcage: totally open air with birds perched on the ceiling ledge, chirping and occasionally flying around. The dishes are composed of top level ingredients simply but expertly prepared, items such as a sashimi trio of Ora King Salmon, Big Island Ahi and Japanese Hamachi, Japanese A5 Wagyu, Miso Glazed Salmon or locally caught Mahi Mahi on the grill and an unusually delicious mélange of mushrooms, Shishito peppers, broccolini and bok choy.
Other Dining Experiences
The leafy setting of The Treehouse dining experience.
Those two are only part of the dinner options, though. As Sous Chef Nicolas Loa explains, he especially enjoys putting together the multi course, culinary jazz riff dinners for the property’s other dining experiences: the seven courses in the single table Treehouse shaded by mango and avocado trees; the five course menu served for two to eight guests in a table in a corner of the garden and the five courses available for two in the Chef’s Kitchen Table in the middle of the kitchen.
The Restaurant’s Strawberry Tart.
The Chef’s Kitchen Table
Being at The Chef’s Kitchen Table has particular advantages: not only can you watch the preparation of your dishes— offerings such as an amuse trio of Duck Mousse Tartlet, Tomato Caprese Crostini and Tempura Prawn Roll, Fettucine with miso onion cream, sage, guanciale,chili flakes and lemon preserve and Snake River Farms Ribeye with Pommes Puree, Ali’I mushrooms and sauce Bordelaise-you also see the preparation of dishes heading out to The Restaurant. And if guests are lucky and see something else being prepared that looks tempting, the chefs may give them a sample of it as well.
Other Hotel Activities
Rowing an outrigger canoe.
When not eating or hanging out by the water, guests have the option to try other hotel hosted activities: an expedition to experience sunset atop the sacred volcanic crater Haleakalā; tooling around the island in a reproduction of a 1957 Porsche 356 Speedster; rowing an outrigger canoe or a variety of wellness activities. There are daily wellness classes such as aerial yoga, core workouts, tone & stretch, and yoga and pilates fusion and in-room spa treatments such as a body polish, Lomi Lomi massage and after sun replenishing treatment. A new addition is the supply of vitality treatments to be used by guests on their own in their rooms: HigherDOSE Red Light Facial; a Photobiomodulation Red Light Therapy belt that straps around your waist to reduce inflammation, relieve pain (it works), relieve jet lag and improve sleep and Lymphatic Drainage with JetBoots among them.
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As part of that beach experience, hotel staff can set up a tent, chair and elaborate packed picnic composed of sliders, a selection of cured meats and cheeses, vegetables with dips and sliced fruit because every culinary hjastronomic excellence is a key hotel feature, one of the reasons that it’s the only Hawaii member of Relais & Chateaux with its culinary requirements.