#8 in Top 20 Maui for A Family Holiday · ★★★★
Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa
Camp Hyatt, Drums of the Pacific luau, the family trip with built-in cultural programming.
Camp Hyatt, Drums of the Pacific luau, the family trip with built-in cultural programming.
"Camp Hyatt, Drums of the Pacific luau, the family trip with built-in cultural programming."
Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa opened in 1980 at the south end of Ka'anapali Beach and remains one of the cluster's family-resort anchors. Around 810 rooms sit across five buildings on 40 oceanfront acres, with the family draw built around the half-acre free-form pool, its 150-foot lava-tube water slide and grottoes (kids climb to the waterfall), a children's splash pool, and the nightly Drums of the Pacific luau, the longest-running show on the island. The kids' club runs the daily programme, and the atrium's resident wildlife, macaws and penguins among them, plus the spa round out the family-day spaces. Hyatt Regency Maui is the right pick for the family holiday at the value tier, where World of Hyatt loyalty and points stretch furthest and the core infrastructure (pool, kids' club, in-house luau, beach access) meets the Ka'anapali standard. The honest trade-off is the property's age (45-plus years), room finishes more conventional than the newer Wailea competitors, and the sheer scale of one of the largest resorts on the island.
Regency Club Suite (the upgrade tier with private lounge and concierge) or Two-Bedroom Suite for the family-of-four option.
Book the nightly Drums of the Pacific luau early in the trip; it sells out in peak weeks. Use the kids' club for a day, and budget a full afternoon for the half-acre pool with its 150-foot lava-tube slide, the resort's standout children's-day asset.
Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in Maui for a Family Holiday list. It scored an aggregate 9.5/10 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, west 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. Rooms with the coveted orientation are claimed first, while popular-month availability runs out months in advance. Top-category rooms with private pools or terraces, the reason this hotel ranks here, are routinely the first gone.
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