Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort  

 

Kona Coast hotel with snorkeling, sea turtles on Kahaluu Beach. This 10-acre hotel hugs Kahaluu Beach and is within an eight-minute drive of Keauhou Shopping Center, two 18-hole golf courses, Keauhou Bay, and the town of Kailua Kona. The hotel has six tennis courts and a freeform outdoor pool; a health spa uses traditional Hawaiian medicinal plants for facials, a range of massage therapies, and body treatments. All 309 guestrooms in the seven-story hotel offer mini-refrigerators, in-room safes, video-game consoles, and private, furnished lanais with garden, ocean, or partial ocean views.

 

The Fairmont Orchid, Hawaii  

 

Bayside Kohala Coast resort with beach, snorkeling. Part of the 3,200-acre Mauna Lani Resort, this 32-acre oceanfront resort

is adjacent to the Francis H. I'i Brown Golf Course and a 10-minute drive from King's Shops at Waikoloa. The resort hugs a

secluded snorkeling bay with sea turtles and tropical fish; guests have access to an expansive freeform outdoor pool, a sandy

children's pool, and two lava-rock spa tubs. All 540 guestrooms offer minibars, high-speed Internet access, safes, video-game

consoles, furnished lanais, and marble bathrooms with double vanities, bathrobes, scales, and phones.

 

Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort & Spa 

Adjacent to a marina and two golf courses, this 22-acre Kona Coast resort is an eight-minute drive from Kailua-Kona and a 20

-minute drive from the Kona Coffee Living History Farm. A 14,100-square-foot system of multilevel pools includes a 200-foot

lava slide, two spa tubs, and a sandy-bottomed children's pool; the resort's health spa has a 24-hour fitness center. All 521 nonsmoking guestrooms feature furnished lanais, high-speed wireless Internet access, mini-refrigerators, bathrobes, and Sheraton Sweet Sleeper Beds with plush-top mattresses.

 

Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel  

 

Open-air hotel on famed Kohala Coast beach. Part of the 1,839-acre Mauna Kea Resort, set in the bluffs above the half-mile

crescent of Hapuna Beach, this hotel is flanked by two golf courses and is a 20-minute drive from Waimea. Leisure options

include a health spa, a large freeform outdoor pool with spa tub, and a fitness center; complimentary scheduled shuttle

service is provided throughout the resort grounds. All 350 guestrooms offer bathrobes, high-speed Internet access, free local calls, complimentary bottled water, and private, furnished lanais with garden, partial ocean, or full ocean views.

 

Mauna Lani Bay Hotel and Bungalows 

 

Beachfront resort with two ocean-view golf courses. Set 30 minutes north of Kona, this Kohala Coast beachfront resort has sea

turtle, tropical fish and small shark ponds throughout; fish-feeding tours are held daily. Other amenities include six tennis

courts and an ocean-view pool. Outdoor spa treatments are offered in thatched-roof huts; two golf courses offer water hazards and panoramic ocean views. The 350 guestrooms have lanais furnished with tables, chairs, and lounge chairs. Decor includes built-in teakwood furnishings; baths are stocked with custom spa toiletries.