The finest resort in the Pacific. Three pools on the cliffs above Wailea Beach, and Ferraro's Bar e Ristorante at sunset with the turtles below.
The Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea sits on a cliff above Wailea Beach, one of the finest white sand beaches in the Pacific, with three oceanfront pools terraced down the cliff face toward the ocean. The property has maintained its position as the finest resort in Maui for 30 years through a combination of service precision, physical maintenance, and a culinary programme that other Wailea properties have consistently failed to match.
The 380 rooms occupy two low-rise wings connected by the cliff-side pool terrace, with every room having an ocean view and most having direct ocean or pool views from their private lanais. The entry-level Garden View rooms are the most affordable path into the Four Seasons Maui at Wailea, but the Ocean View and Ocean Front rooms justify the premium with the full Pacific sunset experience from the lanai.
Ferraro's Bar e Ristorante on the beach level serves an Italian-influenced menu from a pavilion directly at the water's edge, the beachfront dining experience that defines Maui luxury. The Spago, Wolfgang Puck's flagship Hawaiian outpost, serves the most ambitious menu of the resort's restaurants. The Spa at Four Seasons Maui holds a Forbes Five-Star rating independently of the hotel.
The Four Seasons Maui honeymoon is the Pacific standard, the cliff-top pools, the Ferraro's beach dinner at sunset with the green sea turtles visible in the water below, and the Forbes Five-Star spa's couples treatment suite constitute a honeymoon programme that no other Hawaiian property consistently matches. The honeymoon suite arrangement, flowers from the hotel garden, in-room spa treatment, private sunrise breakfast on the lanai, is executed with Four Seasons precision. See all honeymoon hotels →
A Four Seasons Maui anniversary in an Ocean Front room, the Pacific from the lanai, the pool terrace for the afternoon, Ferraro's for the beach dinner, constitutes the most complete anniversary resort experience in the United States. The hotel's anniversary programme has been refined over 30 years of managing milestone stays. See all anniversary hotels →
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Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea's case for the Hawaii stay is the working US family-resort gold standard. The 1990 property has held continuous Forbes Five-Star recognition since 2007 and operates as the benchmark against which every other US resort is measured.
The 380 rooms and suites across the low-rise property include the Maui Suite at 1,930 sq ft (the family flagship), the One-Bedroom Suite with ocean view, and the multi-bedroom Presidential Suite. Kids for All Seasons runs year-round at no additional charge with age-banded programming from infant care through teen surf and snorkel clubs.
The Serenity Pool is adults-only (the parental anchor that makes the multigenerational stay work for grandparents too). Spago Maui by Wolfgang Puck and Ferraro's Bar e Ristorante handle the adult dinners; Duo restaurant runs the family breakfast and the early dinner. The Wailea Beach in front of the property is calm enough for young swimmers and the Pacific position produces consistent sunsets. Service tenure (twenty-year head-of-department staff are not unusual) produces named-recognition for repeat family bookings. Best for the multigenerational US family stay where the resort is the destination rather than a base.