After a $250M renovation, with killer views, little beach, and eye-popping prices. 1 Hotel Hanalei Bay opens.
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After a $250M renovation, with killer views, little beach, and eye-popping prices. 1 Hotel Hanalei Bay opens.
Thanks for the info! Great article. I love the 1 Hotel properties , but also love St Regis properties. Haven’t been to the Princeville since 98. Such amazing views! Looking forward to getting out there with my family one of these days.
1 Hotel is obviously catering to a clientele with which I am not familiar, or necessarily care to be. But if there are people who can afford this type of extravagance, more power to them. Let them enjoy the fruits of their labors. Me, I just enjoy being on Kauai, experiencing the culture, picking up a few Hawaiian phases-“Aloha Kakahiaka” anyone?- and everything else the island has to offer.
I commented earlier but I thought of something else. I haven’t stayed overnight in Kauai but I have taken a day trip and thoroughly enjoyed myself. The places I considered for overnight are Plantation Hale on the windward side and the Tip Top which has a cafe. They are more in my price range. Thank you for allowing me to share.
On our next trip in 2023, we will stop by the lobby bar for drinks and pupus and the magnificant sunset view like we did often when it was the St. Regis. That will only set us back about $200. A bit more doable than $1000s per night. As a side note, the condo we rented in 2022 and we are renting in 2023 went up a mere 36%. Yep, the price of Hawaii keeps going up beyond even normal infaltionary rates. These increases clearly must be forcing many Hawaii lovers to consider other options.
Last year I spent 2.5 months on Kauai and $20k. This year it’s going to Costa Rica and I’m paying 1/2. Good bye Kauai until you stop ripping people off.
Costa Rica is a Wonderful Vacation Destination, the savings will make you feel much better. Hawaii has been taking advantage of Tourists for much too long believing that They were the Best and no one could do better, they’re finding that they were wrong. Enjoy staying away from Hawaii, you’ll find Many comparable places without the Ignorance and Over Paying.
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I noticed the Hotel listed,”Sage Burning”. Are they Native Americans? Otherwise, this would be Cultural Appropriation at its’ finest.
Just sayin’…
Mahalo
We’re Maui vacationers, but for research on Costco Travel I plugged in a 7 night stay on Kauai first week of May found 5 resorts under 3k and an additional 5 more under 4k all with a rental car.
Price didn’t include flights.
All were offering some combination of the following perks no resort fee, Costco Rebate cards or resort food credits.
Example was Royal Sonesta Kauai Resort Package for $3,205.44 includes rental car, 188.00 Costco Rebate card, 100.00 food credit and no resort fee. I don’t know anything about the resort other than it gets excellent reviews, but this sounds like a very reasonable package for a 7 night stay.
Hi Richard.
Good to hear from you again! Sonesta is the new name for the Marriott at Kalapaki Beach. It is not at all comparable to the Princeville Resort or the new 1 Hotel Hanalei Bay. Just saying.
Aloha.
I get that, but you’ve run so many articles about the high cost of traveling to Hawaii that I felt the need to balance the perception with there is still reasonable resort priced accommodations available on the islands.
Hi Richard.
Got it. We mentioned them before when we did an article on using Costco Travel if you saw that.
Aloha.
We stayed at the Royal Sonesta last October. It was fabulous! Reasonably priced abs great location. 5 star accommodations and would absolutely go back!
Someone commented earlier about camping on the beach. Say what you will, but during my years on Maui, that was my reality at times. One beach in particular is probably still my favorite place on the planet. Great memories. Being just down the road from the billion-dollar hotels, I can remember on many occasions looking back from the beautiful ocean up towards whichever million-dollar condo/vacation rental which loomed in the background and thinking,”I bet I’m happier than a lot of these people.” Of course, how could I have known. But you get my point. (And for sure has to be that it’s much more difficult now to camp on the beach as more of these types of projects go live.)
Yep it’s an expensive hotel.. like a lot of the other high end places throughout Hawaii and the rest of the world. Heck, there’s a Ritz Carlton in Dana Point, CA that’s Not in a tropical paradise or fancy resort area that goes for $880 all in and that’s on a cheap day. And that’s not even the most expensive place in the area.
These hotels aren’t meant for average Joes like us. They never have and never will.
Are they supposed to pump $250 million into a hotel renovation and charge $200 a night?
I ran a phantom booking scenario and was a bit amused by the exorbitant taxes and fees added on. They make up about 20% of the overall cost. Heck, they even tax the resort fee.
But I guess if u really care about such a thing you can’t afford it.
The General Excise, State Transient and Country Transient taxes add up to nearly 20%, not counting resort fees. And all of the taxes are also assessed on the resort fees.
Despite the amount of money that they bring in isn’t it strange that they can’t manage to build some Affordable Housing?
This hotel has several liens place against it for failing to pay subcontractors including Island Glass here on Kauai. Wonder if the hotel paid up?