Big Island Hotel and Resort Options
Five Star
Four Seasons Hualalai Resort
Hawaii | Beach Front | Ultra Luxury
This collection of 36 two-story bungalows is frequented by business travelers, celebrating couples, and relaxing families. Open-air dining and Polynesian-style decor throughout emphasize the backdrop of black-lava rock against white-sand beaches. Although recreational and cultural offerings abound, the pace is unhurried and the setting feels remote. The Resort’s 243 expansive bungalow-style guest rooms, including 31 suites, feature private, furnished lanais and stunning ocean views. Some of the lower-level guest rooms and suites also offer outdoor gardens and lava rock showers.
The Fairmont Orchid Mauna Lani
Hawaii | Beach Front | Ultra Luxury
Set on 32 acres of oceanfront lawns and gardens, this six-story hotel has a lofty, marble-floored lobby that opens to a sunset deck overlooking a 10,000-square-foot freeform pool, tropical gardens, and Pauoa Bay. Families and leisure travelers are drawn to the resort for its ocean activities, tennis facilities, and proximity to two 18-hole championship golf courses. All 540 guestrooms offer minibars, high-speed Internet access, safes, video-game consoles, furnished lanais, and marble bathrooms with double vanities, bathrobes, scales, and phones.
The Mauna Lani Bay Hotel
Hawaii | Beach Front | Ultra Luxury
Considered by many to be one of the finest resort hotels in the world. The luxurious Mauna Lani Hotel caters to those seeking the best in service. The hotel has continually received the highest ratings for the accommodations and the service of the genuinely friendly staff. You will enjoy one of the most unique experiences in Hawaii with your stay at the private beach bungalows of Mauna Lani. You will be pampered with your own private butler and chef who will cater to your every need.
The Mauna Kea Beach Hotel
Hawaii | Beach Front | Ultra Luxury
This hotel has 310 guestrooms, all of which include teakwood built-in closet drawers and sliding closet and lanai doors. Louvered shutters, ceiling fans, and locking screened entries offer an alternative to air conditioning. Each room has postcard reproductions of an original watercolor on its walls. Additional room furnishings include teak writing desks and rattan chairs. Bathrooms have a second phone, Neutrogena toiletries, lace-edged shower caps, bathrobes, and slippers. All rooms have lanais with a table, chairs, and lounge chairs.
Four Star
The Marriott Waokoloa Resort
Hawaii | Beach Front | Luxury
Tucked into the sun-splashed Kona Kohala Coast on the Big Island of Hawaii, the beautifully restored Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort welcomes guests with the gracious look, style and service of Hawaii's rich heritage. The hotel comprises 545 rooms in two six-story wings. Between the lobby building and the pool complex is a sunning lawn and a magnificent grove of lauhala trees with their distinctive above-ground roots. Among the resort's facilities is the Hawaiian Rainforest Salon & Spa, which faces soothing koi ponds.
Hilton Waikoloa Resort
Hawaii | Ocean Front | Luxury
Located within the 62-acre Waikoloa Beach Resort, this seven-story hotel is adjacent to two golf courses. The resort’s 1,240 guestrooms feature island decor with local artwork, bathrobes, refrigerators, minibars, Suite Dreams Beds, high-speed Internet access, and large, furnished lanais. Guests can interact with live dolphins in the resort's Dolphin Quest Lagoon . A second ocean-fed lagoon is available for snorkeling and kayaking. Three freshwater outdoor pools include waterslides and a children's pool. The Kohala Sports Club & Spa offers a fitness and aerobics studio, a weight room, eight tennis courts, and treatments rooms for massage therapy, body wraps, and facials.
Hapuna Beach Prince Resort
Hawaii | Beach Front | Luxury
Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel is upbeat, breezy and dramatic. Sharing 1,839 acres of oceanfront paradise with the legendary Mauna Kea Beach Hotel. The hotel is nestled into the bluffs above Hapuna Beach in a flowing, contemporary Hawaiian style. All 350 of its guestrooms are ocean-facing and radiate from an open-air lobby that provides sweeping views of the Kohala coastline
. he beachfront hotel is adjacent to an 18-hole golf course and within a five-minute drive of another 18-hole course via complimentary scheduled shuttle.
Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort
Hawaii | Ocean Front | Luxury
Adjacent to a marina and two golf courses, this 22-acre Kona Coast resort is an eight-minute drive from Kailua-Kona. The resort has 521 nonsmoking guestrooms located in four wings of three to seven stories. Rooms feature Sheraton Sweet Sleeper Beds with custom-designed, plush-top mattresses, triple sheeting, plump duvets, and five goose-down pillows. Glass sliding doors lead to private, furnished lanais. Contemporary island-style decor includes light woods and Hawaiian art. Amenities include high-speed wireless Internet access.
Kona Village Resort
Hawaii | Beach Front | Luxury
Thatch-roof hales dot 82 oceanfront acres of the island's only all-inclusive resort, built on the site of an ancient Waikoloa fishing village. Plenty of peaceful spots offer hammocks, benches, and lounge chairs; plus, there are spa tubs, sundecks, two swimming pools, a fitness center, and three lighted tennis courts. Ceiling fans cool cottages with no TV, no radios, no phones, and no clocks. It's all about getting away from reality, as days simply start with sunrises and end with sunsets. The cottages feature porches with lounge chairs and cushioned furniture. Inside are contemporary furnishings and colorful bedspreads.
Three Star
Outrigger Keauhou Bay Resort
Hawaii | Ocean Front | First Class
Within an eight-minute drive of Kailua-Kona and the shops and golf courses of Keauhou, the hotel is adjacent to Kahaluu Beach, which provides some of the best snorkeling on the island. All 309 guestrooms in the seven-story hotel offer mini-refrigerators, in-room safes, video-game consoles, and private, furnished lanais with garden, ocean. Guestrooms include mini-refrigerators, in-room safes, coffeemakers, complimentary premium channels, video-game consoles, and dial-up Internet access. Private, furnished lanais provide garden, ocean, or partial ocean views.
Royal Kona Resort
Hawaii| Ocean Front | First Class
Overlooking spectacular Kailua Bay on the Big Island of Hawaii, the Oceanfront Royal Kona Resort is located in the heart of Kailua-Kona with it's many fine restaurants, shops, historical sites and entertainment activities. All 436 comfortably appointed guest rooms reflect a rich Pan Pacific influence, Many of which boast spectacular ocean views from private, oversized lanais. At the full-service Royal Kona Resort, guests can relax on the decks of our oceanfront, split-level swimming pools.
The Hilo Hawaiian Hotel
Maui| Beach Front | First Class
Located on the shores of Hilo Bay, and close to Volcanoes National Park, this hotel offers a breathtaking view of the ocean, Coconut Island, and the mountain peak of Mauna Kea. Air-conditioned guestrooms feature views of Hilo Bay or the enormous banyan trees lining Banyan Drive. All accommodations have balconies or patios, refrigerators, and dial-up Internet access. In addition to a swimming pool, sundeck, health club, conference room, and business services, amenities include an on-site health spa where massage, body, and facial treatments are offered.