We really love our visits to Maui, and this blog and our Maui revealed book gave great insight and added to our planning and preparedness.
We stayed at the Hyatt for 7 nights, beautiful hotel, terrific pool, and got through their parking issues.
This trip for us was all about the water, we snorkeled everyday and sailed to Lanai.
Best snorkel spot of course were Black Rock, but the marine reserve at Honolua Bay is hard to beat, plush coral reefs, aboundant fish, and a landing spot for sea turtles.
Our best dining experiences were at Longboards(oceanfront Mariott) with their great seafood menu, Mama%26#39;s fish house ($150 or more for two, reservation needed)and our favorite in downtown Lahaina is Kimo%26#39;s, one of the best places to view a sunset at dinner.
We did the long road to Hana (wonderful), one warning though, we foolishly drove around the top western tip of the island, not knowing this violated our rental car agreement. The road goes down to one lane dangerously around the mountainside with no guardrail! If another car had met us, one of us would have had to reverse direction along that treacerous stretch.
We had only two dissapointments:
Our breakfast dining experience at Gazebo, we we were rushed by an impatient waitstaff, and treated poorly, just to get us to hurry up, order, eat, and get to the next customer. We observed other guests being treated the same. Opt instead for a very friendly breakfast at The Castaway, a short jog from the Sheraton, oceanfront dining and the friendliest experience you%26#39;ll find with good food.
Our other neagative experience was with the highly touted sailing trip to Lanai with Trilogy. You pay big $$, get a very poor breakfast and bitter coffee. Now, the staff is friendly, and the boat clean, but they dump you for 2 1/2 hours on the beach with nothing but a cooler to drink from, a few nachos and salsa that would feed 5 but about 40 are on the trip. It smells of cheap, cheap. They do offer a van ride to the top of Lanai. A better option would have been to sail to a second snorkel location.
Other info:
You must see the blowhole at the 38.5 mile marker, the red sand beach, the black sand beach, and slaughterhouse beach.
What a wonderful vacation and shear beauty enjoying the island, I have some photos I%26#39;ll never forget. Thanks to all who diligently post on these forums for advice. Thank you.
Trip review Aug.30 Sept 7.
Sounds like a good trip. Thanks for writing. I am sorry to hear that you didn%26#39;t enjoy your Trilogy sail. We have sailed with them 3 times and thoroughly enjoyed each time. I have only positive things to say about them. Maybe they changed crews or something, but our experiences were that they are a top notch company. Sorry your experience was not that great. Did you get a grilled chicken with rice and salad before the sail back? You only mentioned the nachos at the beach.....
We enjoy going to Kimo%26#39;s too. Mama%26#39;s Fish House is just okay for us.....too much to spend for a meal when there are others to choose from for a little less.
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