#13 in Top 20 Maui for A Family Holiday · ★★★★
Honua Kai Resort and Spa
Full kitchens, multi-bedroom apartment-style, the family with grandparents trip.
Full kitchens, multi-bedroom apartment-style, the family with grandparents trip.
"Full kitchens, multi-bedroom apartment-style, the family with grandparents trip."
Honua Kai Resort and Spa is the all-suite, full-kitchen condo-resort on the north end of Ka'anapali (Kahekili Beach, immediately north of the Sheraton Maui's Black Rock), opened in 2009 as one of the newer Maui resort properties. More than 600 suites are split between two towers, Hokulani to the south and Konea to the north, with a separate cluster of luxury townhomes alongside; the family flagship is the three-bedroom suite, with a full kitchen and in-suite washer-dryer. What sets it apart for families is the combination: a full resort (a four-pool complex with the Aquatic Playground waterslide pool, the Honua Kai Spa, and the beachfront Duke's Beach House restaurant) paired with an all-suite, full-kitchen condo product that comfortably sleeps a party of six or eight. Honua Kai is the right pick for the multi-generational holiday with grandparents: the three-bedroom suite is the centrepiece, the kitchen handles breakfast and lunch, the resort handles the pool, dinner and luau programme, and the snorkelling off the north side of Black Rock is the same access the Sheraton has next door.
Three-Bedroom Hokulani Suite (the multi-generational flagship) or Two-Bedroom Honua Kai Suite for the family-of-six option.
Three-Bedroom Hokulani Suite for the multi-generational booking; the corner unit with the wraparound view is the one to ask for. Use the kitchen for breakfast and one lunch a day. Snorkel from the north side of Black Rock at 7am.
Honua Kai Resort and Spa sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in Maui for a Family Holiday list. It scored an aggregate 9.4/10 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 Ka'anapali North, west coast and adjacent. For a different city entirely, see the related lists below.
With dates settled, the booking window that works is about twelve weeks ahead. Expect the best-positioned suites to go early; in the busy season the lead time is 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.
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