The Grand Hyatt Kauai sits on the south shore of the island’s most beautiful island at the confluence of everything the Poipu coast offers: consistent sunshine, a direct beach frontage on swimmable sand, grounds of tropical density through which the pools wind in a configuration that has been voted among the finest resort pool complexes…
The view arrives before anything else. Guests checking in at the St. Regis Princeville walk through the lobby toward the check-in desk and find, behind it, Hanalei Bay — the two-mile crescent of water below the cliff, the mountains rising from the far shore with the Napali beginning at their northern edge, and a quality…
Kauai is the oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands and the most visibly geological — the mountains more jagged, the valleys deeper, the rivers more dramatic, the rainfall that creates all of it more present even on the island’s sunny south shore than the sky over Maui’s Wailea coast ever suggests rain is possible. The…
Kauai has no all-inclusive resorts. The island that contains the Napali Coast — sixteen kilometres of thousand-metre cliffs accessible only by water or air — and the Waimea Canyon, and the Hanalei Valley’s taro fields that have been farmed on the same terrain for a thousand years, and three or four beaches that earn descriptions…