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Big Island Resorts: Six Favorites

June 28th, 2009 · No Comments

by Ted Felber

When you choose to visit the Big Island Resorts, you can determine you lodging which provides you to indulge yourself, child friendly activities along with the understated style of barefoot comfort. Whether you enjoy shopping the boutiques, fine dinning and nightclubs as well as fitness studios, radiant pools and exotic spas you will find them all in one location, which means that you never have to leave the resort except to enjoy fun activities such as tours.

Any 4-star Big Island Hawaii hotel has special packages, which can include air, free rental car, free nights for longer staying guests, complimentary breakfast or resort credits to be applied to massages, water sports, dining, golf and other fun activities.

For instance, on the sunny Kohala Coast at the Hapuna Beach Prince Resort, packages with a hotel room that include free rental car, your choice of a daily $50 resort credit towards massage, tennis, golf, dining and other resort activities or a daily buffet breakfast.

In Kona, you can absorb the mystic Hawaiian culture at the oceanfront Keauhou Beach Resort. Wander by a replica of King David Kalakaua’s beach cottage and the royal bathing pool as well as the three stone temples or heiau. In nearby tide pools you can view unusual marine life, thriving with tropical reef fish and sea turtles. At the neighboring Kahaluu Bay Beach Park you can Surf, swim and snorkel. When you book three nights at this Big Island Hawaii hotel, you child receives a complimentary explorer kit!

For a throwback to the Hawaii of old, the Kona Village Resort is one of the most luxurious Big Island resorts, home to 125 thatched-roof bungalows, each reflecting a different Polynesian architectural style.

Nestled in an ancient Hawaiian fishing village, Kona Villiage is a parent’s dream: customized programs to entertain your kids, from tots to teenagers, from dawn to well after dusk, all at no charge. There’s even a dinner seating for children, so Mom and Dad can enjoy a romantic dinner cruise.

The Fairmont Orchid Resort offers the “Keiki Aloha Program”, for children 5 through 12, along the Kohala Coast that provides supervised activities from Hawaiian cultural games to water sports. You can expect some phenomenal money-saving deals from this Big Island Hawaii hotel. For instance, children 5 and under eat free at the resorts various restaurants. Are you stressing and need to relax?

Imagine… stressing no further at the serene, Golf & Spa Mauna Lani Resort on the Kohala Coast, which is flanked by sandy white beaches decorated with lava tide pools. Get unbeatable sunset views from the lounge chairs or the balcony and enjoy interior atrium gardens and pools, where endangered baby sea turtles are raised.

Get unbeatable sunset views from the lounge chairs or the balcony and enjoy interior atrium gardens and pools, where endangered baby sea turtles are raised. On a shoreline trail leads across the 3,200-acre resort, you get a glimpse into the ancient past, when people lived in lava caves and tended the large complex of fishponds.

The Four Seasons Hualalai is a grouping of 32 two-story bungalows teaming with five seaside swimming pools on a black lagoon at the finest end of the Big Island Resorts. Here you can enjoy the privacy of your own outdoor shower and pool as well as unique dining and clear ocean views. You may also enjoy teeing off on the new 18-hole championship Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course.

The whirlpools, lap pool, steam rooms, saunas and cold plunges are all set in the resorts lush tropical gardens. For the ultimate in luxury, you can enjoy the massage and exotic spa treatments in the open air, secluded behind bamboo screens. Almost all of the Big Island resorts have lavishly luxurious spas.

Here, you’ll experience the famous Hawaiian lomi-lomi massage, also called the “loving hands” massage, which works deeply but gently into your muscles releasing any tension or ache…Experience your SELF in a unique, tropical environment while receiving luxurious cleansing and rejuvenation treatments from this ancient wisdom…A synergy of healing for body, mind and spirit.

All the resorts organize various external programs for you, such as hiking the lava flows of Kilauea, to the summit of Mauna Kea or Stargaze with the local astronomer as well as exploring the remote northern coasts and enjoying a cool dip in a mountain waterfall. While visiting these world-famous Big Island resorts, you will never find the time to become bored. You can renew your carefree spirit with such delightful treats and pampering. You will never want to leave and when you do, you will be thrilled to return!

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