Mauna Kea Beach Hotel Kamuela

General Information

The Mauna Kea Beach Hotel features 258 visitor suites all renewed as of December 2008. This property is located on 60-acres facing Kauna oa Bay, one of the best natural white sand beaches in Hawaii the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel is prominent for its a outstanding sense of site that enhances without intruding on dramatic natural vicinage. In 2007 the American Institute of Architects recognized the guesthouse as one of the upper 150 buildings of Americas Favorite Architecture.

Just down Kohalas Lava beach the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel is the kind of spot families return to year after year. Kids of long-time clients bring their kids wanting the same suite the same art on the wall and the same smiling personnel. They may admit sheepishly that once in a whilst they try someplace else but for them nothing else entirely measures up.

And little wonder. This is the refined world-class hotel that Laurance Rockefeller built over 30 years ago as the unsurpassable family escape. Today the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel features been renewed to its original amenity and continues to attract advanced clientele the world over.

The world-renowned Mauna Kea Beach Hotel is situated on lively Kauna oa Bay considered by a lot of to be the islands single most charming coast. Crescent-shaped with pure white sands and shimmering aqua waters it's ideal for water sports including swimming snorkeling scuba diving sailing kayaking catamaran riding whale watching and deep-sea fishing. Even at night customers step onto a circular lava outcropping facing the Bay to watch the manta rays swim beneath.

Created out of lava cliff and optimism in the '60s by Laurance S. Rockefeller and Robert Trent Jones, Sr., the Mauna Kea Golf Course set the benchmark for Hawaii hole golf. Today, the legend continues as Mr. Jones' son Rees and his company Rees Jones Inc., lead a sweeping tee-to-green restoration of the Mauna Kea Golf Course, stepping up to contemporary USGA standards of play for today's golfer.

In 1997 the U.S. Golf Association named Hapuna The Course of the Future. This Arnold Palmer/Ed Seay-designed 18-hole championship course is a links-style course featuring wonderful views of the Kohala Coast and Pacific with snow-capped Mauna Kea volcano as a backdrop.

A testament to earlier times when his world-class resort paid tribute to the antique Hawaiian spirit Laurance Rockefellers big range of Asian and Pacific art restful graces the walls and lush tropical grounds. Over 1600 museum-quality pieces have been thoroughly conserved and displayed so that the matchless culture of Mauna Kea Beach Hotel will live on for generations to come.