Maui's Golf Coast 2007 - (Page 24) Makena Resort: South Maui’s oasis M akena Resort has a thing about the great outdoors. It is one of the few – perhaps the only – places – where you can stand on a grassy lawn next to a waterfall flowing into a freshwater pool surrounded by leafy canopies, coconut trees and flowering shrubs, and still be in the interior of a hotel. The Maui Prince, Makena Resort’s centerpiece accommodation, is a 310-room luxury property whose most prominent feature is a verdant one-acre courtyard that opens to the sky. Many of the property’s rooms and suites face this lush garden. Prop open the solid exterior door of your room but leave closed the interior slatted door, and you’ll gain fresh air and the musical sounds of the waterfall without losing an ounce of privacy. It’s an ideal way to have the best of both worlds. Every room at the Maui Prince also faces the ocean, an endless expanse of azure blue broken only by Molokini islet, Kaho‘olawe island and occasional bright white specks of boats sailing on the sea. The hotel doesn’t offer a “city view” room category; no such thing exists here. Each room has either a partial or full ocean view. Outside the hotel, to the south and east, are the 36 fairways that comprise the Makena Golf Courses, and a six-court tennis complex managed by Peter Burwash International. Beyond that there isn’t much, and that’s the greatest beauty of this quiet and secluded resort. Makena, which in Hawaiian means “abundance,” is both the largest and smallest of Maui’s resort destinations. The resort’s boundaries include 1800 acres of prime coastal 1,800 acres of lush, breathtaking scenery land just south of Wailea Resort, but most of it remains in its natural, untouched state. Makena Resort as a vacation destination encompasses just The Maui Prince’s one-acre atrium one luxury hotel property, two golf courses and a range of amenities and services including tennis, croquet, volleyball, 24
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