Quick – name the ONLY state of the United States that grows and produces coffee?  Hawaii of course.  When we visit Maui we drink Maui/Hawaiian coffee.  So which coffee-houses on Maui are the best?  Here’s the winners:

• 1st Place – Aina at the Honua Kai Resort & Spa
• 2nd Place – Starbucks
• 3rd  Place – Maui Coffee Roasters

Aina Coffee House in the Honua Kai Resort & Spa

Aina at the Honua Kai Resort & Spa

You would expect nothing less – Maui’s premier 5-star resort, the Honua Kai Resort & Spa,  is going to have the #1 coffee house on Maui.  For all the guests and owners at the Honua Kai this is a great way to support your 1st class resort and keep Aina busy and healthy.

Aina is about to start room service and you won’t even have to put on shorts and an Aloha shirt to enjoy their fine coffee products and pastries.

If you’re like me our first morning in Maui has my stomach 4 hours ahead of Maui time.  So at 7 am Maui time my stomach tells me its 11 am back in St. Louis and I’m ready for espresso and a latte and a cappuccino all rolled up into one huge coffee and head to Aina to wake up.  Of course you can’t drink coffee without a huge blueberry muffin and I’m ready to sit out in the open air lobby of the Honua Kai and enjoy our first morning on Maui.

Funny thing is every morning at the Honua Kai starts out that way…
Located at Honua Kai Resort and Spa
130 Kai Malina Parkway
Lahaina, HI 96761
808-662-2832

www.ainagourmet.com

Hours of Operation 7:0oAM to 9:00PM

Starbucks

Starbucks in Lahaina Cannery Mal

Who can argue with Starbucks being the #1 coffee-house?  Well there are 6 Starbucks on Maui and 2 are a 12 minute drive from the Honua Kai.  Here are the Starbucks on Maui:

Lahaina

878 Front Street
Lahaina, HI 96761
808-667-6974

Queen Kaahumanu Center

275 West Kaahuman Avenue #1200 F5
Kahului, HI 96732
808-871-6290

OGG Kahului Main Concourse

New Terminal Bldg @ Bldg 340
Kahului Airport, HI 96732
808-877-5858

Maui Marketplace

270 Dairy Road
Kahului, HI 96732
808-871-7884

OGG Baggage Claim (Maui)

1 Kahului Airport Road Unit 9
Kahului, HI 96732
(808) 877-5858

(OGG is the big Kahului Airport location)

Website: Starbucks.com

Maui Coffee Roasters

Real Maui Coffee-House!

Now this is a REAL Maui Coffee-House and available ONLY in the Hawaiian Islands!  Sadly this coffee-house is on the Road to Hana up by the airport; its a 30 minute drive from the Honua Kai.  But, if you plan to drive the Road to Hana then this is a great place to get some Java.

We have stopped at the coffee-house and it feels like a Hawaiian coffee-house – its a fun place to visit.

Maui Coffee Roasters
444 Hana Hwy
Kahului, Maui, Hawaii 97669

808-877-2877
Mauicoffeeroasters.com

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VacationRoost now handles some Honua Kai villas!  Welcome to the latest and hottest 5-star resort on Maui – The Honua Kai Resort & Spa!  What does that mean to you, a possible guest at the Honua Kai?  More choices of course.

However, the rates I can offer as an Ambassador Honua Kai Owner are still cheaper and if you use my discount codes you will have more “goodies” while at the Honua Kai.

Our Discount Code

Note: We are now renting our 1 bedroom
Direct for as little as $99 per day

Click here to learn more!

Our villa is a 1-bedroom ocean view condo and sleeps 4.  I can assure you no one can beat our discounted prices – no one!

We belong to the Honua Kai Ambassador Club and as ambassadors we can extend THE largest discount code to anyone who wants to make reservations at the OFFICIAL Honua Kai Reservation Desk.  Nobody is cheaper!  So read the next paragraph and take advantage of our discount code!

Need a studio, one-bedroom, two-bedroom, or three-bedroom at the Honua Kai?  Well click here and you will get THE best discounts available to anyone – you get our owner discount!  You will be brought direct to the Honua Kai Owner’s desk – you make your reservation direct with them with our discount number!  This is a win-win for both of us.

Honua Kai Owner’s deep discount reservations
that you can use too – just click the above icon

Click here to make a reservation. You will be asked for “Enter Membership Number” please type in 60001X and make your reservations.   If you have specific requests like a view or floor you can call 877-662-2809 and a reservation agent will help you – give them my Ambassador Number of 60001X to get the owner’s discount.

Here is the press release:

Luxury vacation rentals just steps from the world-famous Ka’anapali North Beach

SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ — VacationRoost.com, the leading online marketplace for professionally managed vacation rentals has launched its Hawaiian market with luxury rentals at the Honua Kai Resort & Spa in Maui. The resort, which is just steps away from Kaanapali North Beach, features one, two and three bedroom rentals with fully equipped gourmet kitchens, private lanais and a full-service concierge.

“Honua Kai’s properties offer a unique combination of services and amenities and much more space than a traditional hotel room,” said Michelle Hagen, Chief Marketing Officer for VacationRoost. “We are committed to help our guests change the way they stay and Honua Kai fits that bill.”

Honua Kai is Maui’s newest destination and provides an unparalleled level of service and all the amenities of a luxury resort, including a full-service spa, room service, on-site restaurants, three pools and children’s programs. VacationRoost will offer rentals in each of Honua Kai’s room categories, providing a variety of options for guests to choose from.

“We feel it’s quite a distinction to be the first Hawaii resort selected to join VacationRoost’s exclusive family of properties and to be represented professionally in the marketplace by their experienced team,” said Ed Sowers, general manager of Honua Kai Resort & Spa.

ABOUT VACATIONROOST

With more than 100,000 ski, mountain, and beach vacation rentals in 84 destinations across North America, VacationRoost.com offers the largest selection of professionally managed vacation homes available on the Web. Travelers can search, compare and book their home vacation rental online, or work with an experienced travel specialist to find the perfect spot for their vacation. Based in Salt Lake City, UT, VacationRoost’s staff of experienced travel executives is committed to making booking a vacation rental just as easy and competitively priced as booking a hotel room online.

ABOUT HONUA KAI RESORT & SPA

Honua Kai offers a uniquely contemporary Maui experience. Nestled on 38 oceanfront acres of Kaanapali’s pristine North Beach, the resort is designed as two U-shaped buildings with ocean and mountain views, lush landscaping and expansive open spaces. This openness is mirrored in each of the 628 guest suites (one-, two-, and three-bedroom) with professionally equipped kitchens, spacious and homelike floor plans, and luxury resort services. An imaginative aqua network of pools, hot tubs, natural pond bridges, waterslide, waterfalls and fountains allows for privacy and play.

Honua Kai Resort & Spa is opening in phases through early 2010:

• OPEN – Hokulani building (318 guest suites, ‘Aina Gourmet Market, pool, fitness center, concierge desk, Family Fun Club, pool & beach activities operation)
• Late 2009 – Duke’s beachside restaurant (Now open)
• Early 2010 – Konea building opens (310 guest suites, lobby cafe, two pools, spa)

Again, welcome to the Honua Kai Resort & Spa!  Remember you can’t use the front desk, don’t have Wi-Fi access throughout the resort, can’t charge things to your room, and can’t use the bellman.  Additionally, you will have to pickup your room key somewhere and return it their when you leave.

Trust me the difference, in price, just isn’t worth the small savings.

Whalers Village is a “must see” while on the northern half of Maui.  This fantastic mall offers all kinds of restaurants, shops, designer boutiques, art gallerias, fashion stores, museums and activities.  Whalers Village is right on the Ka’anapali Beach and you can swim in the Pacific Ocean and have lunch or dinner just steps away; in fact you will see folks doing just that.

Click the above map to see a larger version

Whalers Village
2435 Ka’anapali Parkway
Open daily 9:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Plenty of covered parking
808-661-4567

You can walk the boardwalk from the Honua Kai to Whalers Village – takes 45 minutes and the stroll is fantastic.  Its a lot of fun and 100% of the way you are on a boardwalk so a baby stroller can be pushed with no trouble.  Part of the walk is next to a golf course – listen for the “Fore” and golf balls – its easy to tell when you are on the golf course.

Whalers Village Museum
10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. daily
808-661-5992
Free admission

Whales!

If you’ve never been to this museum you have missed out on a fine museum which does a great job of giving the history of whaling in the Hawaiian waters.  From 1820 to 1860 Lahaina was a very busy whaling town and this museum relives those wild and woolly days.  This is a “must see” when on Maui.

The smallest villas at the Honua Kai is the studio.  The studio stats:

Suite area: 600 sq ft

Lanai area: 114 sq ft

The studio is really meant for a couple.  A studio still has a complete kitchen and the lanai faces inwards to the court yard.  This kind of villa is head and shoulders above your typical hotel room in the 25+ year old resorts that litter Ka’anapali Beach – trust me these are fantastic for a honeymoon couple.

If you want the lowest possible rental prices use my owner discount code of 60001X and click here to get rates:

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Here’s what snorkeling on Maui’s Napili and Kapalua Bays looks like.

The coral reef, right in front of the Honua Kai, looks just the same!

We own these

Humpbacks don’t eat anything in the warm Hawaiian waters – krill, their favorite food, don’t live in warm waters but exclusively within arctic oceans. So whilst they spend wintertime in Maui they drop close to one-third their body weight.

The beginning of December can be an ideal time for you to see Maui — just preceding the fast paced holidays when fellow people are just starting to shovel snow back on the mainland. Airline tickets set you back very much less together with resorts charge significantly very much less as compared to they generally do in January.

The Honua Kai Resort & Spa is the place to stay and you can observe whales out of your villa’s lanai, if you have an ocean view. The Honua Kai is definitely the newest together with hottest 5-star vacation resort in Maui situated on the 1 beach within the world Ka’anapali Beach within northern Maui. The ratings are in and they’re clearly superb.

I’ve taken whale watching trips for 10 years and my advice is to find excursion companies that specialize in Zodiac boats. A Zodiac is the only approach to get up and personal with a whale the size of a school bus. Pregnant women in addition to people having back health issues or possibly recent surgery aren’t permitted to ride on Zodiacs.

The best bang for the buck activity in Maui happens to be a Zodiac cruise for two hours hunting for whales. Each one of our journeys have been awe-inspiring not to mention fun. We have met some people have to that in fact go whale watching each day whilst in Maui! If you take numerous tours with just one adventure provider you’ll receive Pre-Boarding status and as well grab the very best seats.

Bring a hat and additionally sunglasses – polarized sunglasses really are significantly better than normal types – you can see the whales swim underneath the boat with polarized kinds. In addition, put suntan lotion on any kind of uncovered skin since the UV rays definitely will burn even on over cast days.

Show up approximately half-hour before the boarding time in addition to when you do you is going to be supplied a numbered ticket – the low numbers are allowed onto the vessel first. This activity does have a great discount of which essentially has adults purchasing tickets priced for kids prices if you buy your tickets through the proper excursion company.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zxTKUfVPeo

Some cool videos of resorts next to the Honua Kai Resort & Spa.

Right in the middle of Ka'anapali Beach!

The Honua Kai Resort & Spa is right in the middle of Ka’anapali Beach Resort area.  It’s the newest construction in 25 years.  Why on earth stay at something 25+ years old when you can stay at a new 5-star in the middle of Ka’anapali – the Honua Kai Resort & Spa!

The boardwalk, between the Honua Kai and the ocean, takes you south to Whalers Village, a world class shopping village which has 70+ shops, cafes, and elegant restaurants – you can walk it in 45 minutes and get a great walk by the ocean.  The peaceful walk will get you in the mood for some great dining and shopping at Whalers Village.

Long ago Ka’anapali was the royal retreat and playground for the rulers of Maui.  The miles and miles of perfect white sand beaches, gentle waves, ideal weather, and green mountain scenery was the place the royalty surfed, swam, raced the outrigger canoes, and feasted for weeks on end.

Today you can do exactly the same things that only the royal family of yesteryear had access to – the Honua Kai is right in the heart of Ka’anapali and all the activities that it’s know for around the world.

World Championship Golf Courses:

Ka’anapali has the right mixture of sun, rain, and mist to support two world class golf courses:

Ka’anapali Golf Resort’s Royal Ka’anapali Course has  a rating of 4.5-stars from Golf Digest in October of 2008 “Best Places You Can Play.” Phone: 888.661.3691,  website : Click here, read more here:

Course layout – click here

Ka’anapali Kai Course by Jack Snyder and renovated by Robin Nelson a Par 70 course and is perfect for all levels of play.  Website click here.  Phone number: 808.661.3691

Course layout – click here.

Daily Cliff Diving Ceremony:

Ka’anapali honors its history and traditions each evening.  Cliff divers reenact a past Maui King bravely jumping into the broiling sea at Black Rock, just one mile away, each evening at sundown.

Tiki torches light the shoreline as Hawaiian pahu drums and triton shell horns call the hula dancers and guests to the luaus which line the beachside resorts.

Whalers Village for Shopping and Dining:

Four miles south of the Honua Kai is the world class Whalers Village Shopping and Dining center.  Many open-air restaurants offer first class dining late into the night – watch the sun set as you feast on fabulous menu items.