Word: wailea
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...miles to the north is Kapalua, whose Bay Hotel opened last October. Operated by Rockresorts, the 196-room hotel has a superb golf course (the 334-yd. 13th green is framed by two beaches); another course is under construction. On the southwest coast is the charming 350-room Wailea Beach Hotel and its two golf courses, which also opened in 1978. The adjoining, three-year-old, 600-room Inter-Continental Maui is perhaps the chain's most elegant hostelry; it put up 2,500 honeymoon couples last year...
That's not all. South of Wailea, Seibu Hawaii Inc., a Japanese company, is building a six-story, 300-room hotel on 1,000 acres-with a golf course, of course. Within the Kaanapali complex, a Hyatt Regency, now half-built, will open in 1980. The $80 million, triple-towered, 820-room hotel, the biggest single construction project in Hawaiian history, will feature, among other things, a mini-Niagara surging through a lobby the size of three football fields...
...other side of Haleakala, on the cool uplands above Wailea, on a clear day you can see, if not forever, a dazzling, dappled distance of meadow, mountain and sea. At the 2,000-to 3,000-ft. level, a host of small farms raise a cornucopia of vegetables, fruits and flowers, notably lychee, avocado, guava, the apple-sweet Kula onion and protea, the flower of a thousand exquisite shapes...
Most island visitors prefer Scotch or martinis. After soaping off the Coppertone, they generally settle for dinner and dreams. For the indefatigable, however, there is nightlife on Maui. There are waiting lines outside the Lost Horizon disco at the Wailea Beach Hotel; the Royal Lahaina's Foxy Lady packs in upper teenagers and the Tommy Dorsey set in equal numbers. The island's hottest spot is the Bluemax, in the town of Lahaina, where visiting Elton John and Linda Ronstadt have done their stuff off the cuff; the place is packed nightly in hopes that other drop...
Restaurants have bloomed like mamane flowers;, there are some 160, most of them so-so or ho-ho. Among the best: Inter-Continental's La Perouse (where the resident harp player is truly named Holly Angel), Wailea Beach's Raffles, Robaire's, Kimo's and Chez Paul, a French bistro in a beat-up storefront near Lahaina that is owned by a Boston Irishman named Paul Kirk (fortunately, his French wife Fernanda presides over the stove...