Here comes Coco Palms 2026. Despite the horrendous traffic, no beach, plus development, cultural, and staffing concerns, redevelopment of the long-gone resort starts now.
Here comes Coco Palms 2026. Despite the horrendous traffic, no beach, plus development, cultural, and staffing concerns, redevelopment of the long-gone resort starts now.
We are frequent visitors to Kauai and each trip we are astounded that the eyesore wreckage of the once beautiful Coco Palms still stands. I’ll believe when I see it that a large hotel will be built. My personal choice, that counts for nothing since I don’t reside on Kauai, is that the grounds be renovated to combine a cultural center and park along with a Blue Hawaii themed restaurant replicating the old Coco Palms restaurant. Not tacky Elvis, but tasteful nostalgia. But regardless, tear down the skeletal remains asap. Better to look at a vacant overgrown plot of land.
I don’t know what you mean by tacky Elvis but he will always be tasteful nostalgia to me.
More than anything this has become a curiosity.
Who will be responsible for a plan for the resort guest pedestrians to cross safely to & from the beach?
Will there be improved beach parking for locals use?
Will the county add a lifeguard tower & staff to save the drowning tourists?
Can the Lydgate sewage treatment plant handle the output from a resort?
Did the.latest developer consider any of this stuff? It seems like the planning dept has other priorities.
The biggest challenge will be employees. They should build housing. Our current Planning Department inherited this housing mess. Bye bye workers.
The beach is back.
Remember the Puhi to Lihue crawl. Add some lanes and it’s gone. I guess we’ll see how these new lanes help.
If tourists can walk to the beach, walk to restaurants, isn’t that good?
3 years of construction work and jobs paid at “prevailing wage”? Where are the workers going to live, it will take skilled workers and resources for construction? Then recruitment of willing to work staffing to run the place. City and County will get a boost in property Tax values as well as tourist taxes, I’m sure that’s what they are counting on.
This is awesome .we so miss the beautiful coco palms.
We stayed there in 1989 when we were married on kauai.
It was incredible , so amazibg.so historical.
Can’t wait to book a stay.
While at first observation, I would support its restoration, I definitely can understand the bog of traffic that currently runs through Kapaa, which only be made worse. I have pleasant memories of the original hotel, having dined there so many years ago. That place has always attracted me, with all its nostalgia and beautiful grounds and palm trees. I hope something positive can come out if it. And Kauai needs to do something about it’s traffic issue through there.
Right or wrong, anything pro-tourist is going to get overwhelmingly dissed by the locals. That goes without saying, no need to hear the reasons.
I wish them well. Naysayers are just angry sad complainers who think whining is somehow fixing things.
My grandparents stayed there many years ago. My husband and I went to a show there also many years ago. It’s going to be rebuilt they should try to keep an area for history of the place. I remember it being special because of the history.
Our first visit to Hawaii was in 1986 in celebration of our 10th wedding anniversary. We stayed at the Coco Palms and loved everything about the resort. That brought us back many times and we stayed in condos after Iniki. It was sad for us whenever we passed the once beautiful resort lying in ruins. I hope the rebuilding retains the ambiance of the earlier hotel. It was a very special place.
Hawaii seems of late to be trying to stop tourists. Odd; this does not seem to fit. Can’t have it both ways as Hawaii is mainly a tourist supported place.
Interesting article about the Coco Palms site. You are dreaming! If demolition every starts, there will be massive local protests over increased traffic, noise and anything else that can be done to stop the project. The “Developer” who are from the Mainland will give up and never be heard from again. Kauai is not Oahu. Things run very differently there.