Via: Flickr Title: Aloha maui By: GinnyRED57
Originally uploaded: 4 Mar ’06, 7.44pm PST

View from our hotel room at the Maui Prince, where we spent the last two days of our vacation.

Interesting property. It’s currently enmeshed in some kind of ownership brou-ha-ha between heirs of the Seibu family, and the Seibu corporation. It was designed to cater to Japanese visitors to Hawaii, but the clientele is now pretty much like that of any large beach/golf resort on Maui. The grounds were pretty, the beach is nice, and we ran short of time and didn’t have a chance to snorkel there. We had been there on a previous trip to the public shoreline access end of the beach, where we watched a bride being photographed get stung by a bumblebee right on her lip. This time, no pre-nup disasters disturbed our stay.

We used the Jaccuzzi but the pools were curiously unappealing. Couldn’t really swim in them, and they looked crowded if only 4 people were using them.

Nice place, the atrium courtyard is one of the most dramatic and beatuiful on Maui, but I tend to feel they kind of coast on that prestige a little.