Building A Legacy
Discovery all that it took to build the legacy now known as the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel.
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Double Double Ocean View Tower Guestroom
Ocean View guest rooms offer a large, furnished lanai (balcony) and sweeping views of the ocean. Several of these room types provide connecting rooms.
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Presidential Suite Living Space
The Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa Suites on the hotel’s top floor are luxurious Presidential Suites. They each feature a separate living area, dining room, and bedroom and four private, walk-out lanai (balconies) with panoramic ocean and coastline views.
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Ocean Front Deluxe Guestroom
Ocean Front Deluxe hotel rooms offer two large, furnished lanai (balconies), and some feature a walk-in closet.
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Outrigger Canoes On Beachfront
Guests of Mauna Kea Beach Hotel can check in with the beach shack to learn more about a complimentary daily outrigger canoe experience or how to hire a private paddling experience. Throughout the adventure, explorers will learn proper paddling techniques and fun facts about the local marine life.
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Mauna Kea Golf Course
Designed by famous golf course architect Robert Trent Jones Sr.—and updated by his son Rees Jones in 2008—the course’s fantastic landscaping presents an imposing challenge for even the most seasoned golfers.
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Ocean View From Tower Guestrooms
For the perfect start to a day in Hawai'i, drink in the oceanfront views while enjoying a cup of coffee and a flaky breakfast pastry from the balcony of one of the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel's guestrooms.
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Outdoor Pool Aerial View
Along with access to two of the island's most spectacular beaches, guests can also enjoy a swim in the outdoor pool.
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Mauna Kea Golf Course
Mauna Kea Golf Course was the first resort-based golf course on the island of Hawaii, as well as the first to be built on an ancient lava flow.
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Mauna Kea Golf Course
Mauna Kea Golf Course was the first resort-based golf course on the island of Hawaii, as well as the first to be built on an ancient lava flow.
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Beach Club
Explore the sun and the sand with beach equipment rentals from the Beach Club, including complimentary sand toys made from recycled bamboo for little ones.
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Pickleball Courts
Named one of the Top 10 tennis resorts in the world, Mauna Kea Beach Hotel's Seaside Tennis Club also boasts four pickleball courts in addition to its 10 tennis courts, which are each idyllically situated along the ocean's edge.
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Pool Cabanas
Upgrade a day in the sun with a private cabana.
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Beach Chairs
Soak up some sun and enjoy the ocean views from a comfortable beach lounger.
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Copper Bar Dining Area
Unwind with a classic Mauna Kea Mule, sit back, relax, and enjoy the sunset with live music and hula performances while basking in sweeping ocean views that have beckoned travelers for generations.
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Copper Bar
The farm-to-table menu is complimented with handcrafted beverages made by Copper Bar mixologists while also offering a selection of tap beers and wine.
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Food Served At Copper Bar
The iconic Copper Bar’s food-to-table menu of tapas and entrees is elevated with locally sourced ingredients featuring fresh salads, sushi, flatbreads, Parker Ranch Burgers, and fresh catch sashimi.
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Hau Tree Dining Area
Hau Tree is a casual open-air option for relaxed lunches and dinners on the Big Island of Hawai‘i. It’s complete with a gazebo-style bar perfectly situated for meeting friends old and new while enjoying cocktails and local brews and awaiting a glimpse of the sunset’s elusive green flash.
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Vista Deck Private Dining
Whether it's a romantic meal beneath twinkling stars above the shoreline of Kauna’oa Bay as gentle waves wash ashore or gathering with ohana (family) on the Vista Decks, enjoy personal touches and expert attention to details with the hotel's personalized private dining service.
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Number 3 Restaurant
Located in the golf clubhouse, Number 3 restaurant serves casual island lunches in a relaxed open-air atmosphere adjacent to the first tee.
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Beachy Craft Cocktails
Cool off with something fresh, fruity, and frozen—like the Frederico, Mauna Kea's signature cocktail, which features tropical juices blended with light rum and whiskey—from one of the hotel's dining outlets.
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Beach View Of Mauna Kea Beach Hotel
The Mauna Kea Beach Hotel offers an oceanfront setting of dreams on a stunning soft white sand beach at Kauna’oa Bay.
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Buddha Statue In The Lobby
Hundreds of museum-quality art objects from the Pacific and Asia are displayed throughout Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, collected by hotel founder Laurance S. Rockefeller. The expansive collection spotlights Pacific Rim culture and spirituality, from Ainu kimono and glittery Thai icons to Maori canoe prows, bronze Indian chests, and wooden carvings.
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Buddha Stairs
Art pieces are positioned informally throughout the hotel and grounds, where guests can discover and experience them up close. A complimentary 75-minute art tour begins in the hotel lobby each Saturday morning at 9:00 AM and shares more detail about the collection and its history.
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Second Floor And Entryway
Discover the Mid-Century Modern architecture of the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel. Stroll across ocean-blue Mexican tile to an incomparable vista overlooking Kauna’oa Bay and the Kohala Coastline.
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Historic Image Of Mauna Kea Beach Hotel
The first retreat to debut on the Island of Hawai’i, in July 1965, thousands of people quickly flocked to the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel to reserve a guestroom. Praised by travel writers and critics worldwide, it was named one of the “Three Greatest Hotels in the World” by Esquire, as well as one of the “10 Best Buildings of 1966” by Fortune.
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Historic Image Of Mauna Kea Beach Hotel Golf Course
Named the “Mauna Kea Golf Course,” the beautiful collection of fairways had debuted just a year before the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel opened.
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Kona Boardroom
Kona Boardroom comes with 16 comfy “board-of-director” chairs plus a flat screen TV, in-table power options and a built-in white wall, perfect for brainstorming. The foyer creates the ideal space for light refreshment set-ups and networking during those 10-minute meeting breaks.
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Reception On The Beachfront Lawn
The Beachfront Lawn, the hotel's largest outdoor venue, is adjacent to the white sands of Kauna'oa Bay, fronting the hotel's Beachfront Wing.
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Kauna'oa Ballroom
Offering 3,543 square feet of space and stunning views of the ocean through floor-to-ceiling windows, this oceanview space is designed to blur the barrier between inside and out.
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Outdoor Banquet Seating On The Beachfront Lawn
Experience magical moments and new beginnings in Hawai‘i at Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, where timeless elegance and traditions of aloha create memories of a lifetime backdropped by an ocean palette of blues, sunsets of vibrant ambers and orange or tropical gardens of yellows, pinks and reds.