#9 in Top 20 Maui for A Family Holiday · ★★★★
The Westin Maui Resort and Spa, Ka'anapali
Six-pool Aquatic Playground, the big family resort on Ka'anapali Beach.
Six-pool Aquatic Playground, the big family resort on Ka'anapali Beach.
"Six-pool Aquatic Playground, the big family resort on Ka'anapali Beach."
The Westin Maui Resort and Spa sits on Ka'anapali Beach and completed a $120-million transformation in 2021, centred on the 217-room Hokupa'a tower and a rebuilt pool complex. The resort runs to 769 rooms across two towers, and the family draw is the 87,000-square-foot Aquatic Playground: six pools, a 270-foot waterslide, a children's splash zone, and an adults-only infinity pool for the parents. The Westin Family Kids Club runs the daily programme, and the resort's casual oceanfront and poolside dining covers the family dinner without leaving the property. The real asset is the post-renovation room product, the Westin Heavenly Bed plus the 2021 finishes, at a rate below the Wailea cluster down the coast. The Westin is the value pick in Ka'anapali for families who want fresh rooms, big pools, beach, kids' club, and luau access at the neighbouring Sheraton. The honest drawback: at 769 rooms this is a busy resort-city, the Aquatic Playground fills up by mid-morning in peak weeks, and it trades the intimacy of a Wailea property for scale and price.
A two-bedroom suite for a family of four, or a Hokupa'a-tower room for the newest finishes and the quieter adults-only pool access.
The post-2021 rooms are the reason to book here, so confirm at booking that your room is in a renovated tower. The Aquatic Playground's 270-foot waterslide is the centrepiece of the children's day. The Sheraton next door runs its Cliff Dive Ceremony off Pu'u Keka'a at sunset, a five-minute walk along the beach.
The Westin Maui Resort and Spa, Ka'anapali 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.
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. Suites with a private plunge pool or terrace, the very rooms behind this rank, usually vanish first.
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