#3 in Top 20 Maui for A Family Holiday · ★★★★★
Andaz Maui at Wailea Resort
Mokapu Beach, four-pool tier — the design-led family pick.
Mokapu Beach, four-pool tier — the design-led family pick.
"Mokapu Beach, four-pool tier — the design-led family pick."
Andaz Maui at Wailea opened in 2013 as the design-led contemporary alternative to the older Wailea five-star resorts — the Hyatt-group's flagship Andaz property in the Pacific. Two hundred and ninety rooms and 13 villas, the upper-tier Wailea Suite (with separate sitting room) and the four-bedroom Andaz Wailea Villa (with private pool) are the working family-flagship products. The asset is the Mokapu Beach access (the snorkel-soft beach immediately in front of the resort) and the four-tier infinity-pool layout (the pools step down the cliff toward the beach, with the family pool at the upper tier, the adults-only pool at the lower). Andaz Maui's kids' club (Andaz Mauu) runs a Hawaiian-cultural-focused programme (lei-making, hula, canoe-paddling) that is the strongest on the island for cultural depth. Andaz Maui is the right pick for the family holiday where the design-and-architecture aesthetic matters and the multi-generational booking is the working centerpiece — the four-bedroom Wailea Villa handles the family-of-eight trip with the grandparents, the four-tier pool handles the multiple-age children, and the Hawaiian-cultural kids'-club programme is genuinely educational rather than generic-tropical-camp.
Andaz Wailea Villa (the four-bedroom multi-generational flagship with private pool) or Wailea Suite for the family-of-four option.
Book the Andaz Wailea Villa eight weeks ahead for the multi-generational trip — only 13 villas exist, the booking is the working asset for the eight-person family. The Andaz Mauu kids' club's lei-making and hula programmes are the working cultural-day asset.
Andaz Maui at Wailea Resort sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in Maui for a Family Holiday list. It scored an aggregate 9.7/10 across the three editorial criteria — competitive against the field but, on a family holiday-specific factors, the angle above is what earned its rank. For the alternatives in the same Maui neighbourhood, see Wailea, south coast and adjacent. For a different city entirely, see the related lists below.
If you have already chosen the dates, our editor recommends booking the room twelve weeks ahead. The best suites with the right view orientation go first, and inventory for the popular months is quoted in months, not weeks. Suite-level rooms with private plunge pools or terraces — the ones that earn this rank — are typically the first to sell out.