#4 in Top 20 Maui for A Family Holiday · ★★★★★
Fairmont Kea Lani Maui
All-suite and villa resort, Keiki Lani Kids Club, the multi-generational standard.
All-suite and villa resort, Keiki Lani Kids Club, the multi-generational standard.
"All-suite and villa resort, Keiki Lani Kids Club, the multi-generational standard."
Fairmont Kea Lani is Hawaii's only all-suite and villa luxury resort, set on Polo Beach at the south end of Wailea, where every standard room is a one-bedroom suite with a separate sitting room and a private balcony. There are 413 suites and 37 two-storey villas; the villas, several with private plunge pools, are the multi-generational flagship. For a family, the all-suite layout is the real advantage: parents get an evening to themselves in the sitting room while the kids sleep in a separate bedroom, so the usual cramped-hotel-room problem of family travel simply doesn't arise. The Keiki Lani Kids Club runs year-round day programmes for ages 5 to 13, and the pool complex, two lagoon-style family pools linked by a 140-foot waterslide, an adults-only pool and a keiki splash pool, anchors the family day. The Wailea setting puts the Four Seasons, Grand Wailea and Andaz within an easy beach-path walk. Best for the multi-generational Maui holiday; the honest trade-off is that this is a large, busy resort rather than an intimate hideaway.
Kea Lani Villa (the two-bedroom flagship with private plunge pool) or One-Bedroom Suite for the entry-level all-suite product.
Book one of the two-storey villas for a family of six to eight, there are only 37 on the property. The Keiki Lani Kids Club runs daily; pre-register at check-in. The 140-foot waterslide between the family pools is the children's highlight.
Fairmont Kea Lani Maui 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.
Have firm dates? Our editor's advice is to book roughly twelve weeks in advance. The best suites with the right view orientation go first, and inventory for the popular months is quoted in months, not weeks. Top-category rooms with private pools or terraces, the reason this hotel ranks here, are routinely the first gone.
A ranked shortlist, a special offer worth booking, and the overpriced stay to skip. Straight from the editors.