Hotel Wailea

Maui's only Relais & Châteaux property, adults-only and entirely yours

There is a particular quality to Hotel Wailea's silence. The property sits above the rest of Wailea on its own hill, 15 acres of tropical garden, winding footpath, and cascading waterfall forming a kind of private world that the main resort strip below cannot access. The 72 suites — all one-bedroom, all with a separate living room and a private lanai — are the only guest accommodation in Maui to carry the Relais & Châteaux designation, an association that exists precisely to recognise this kind of unhurried, particular hospitality. The hotel has appeared in Vogue, Forbes, and Condé Nast Traveler; it has been ranked among Travel + Leisure's top five Hawaiian hotels for nine consecutive years; it is, in a phrase that Wailea's more conventional resorts cannot claim, genuinely boutique.

The wedding programme matches the hotel's character in every detail. No venue site fees are charged — the financial equation is built around the food and beverage minimum and the ceremony package, both of which reflect the kitchen's investment in locally-sourced, orchard-to-table ingredients. Ceremonies are the sole event on the property that day. The Sunset Lawn faces west into the Maui Channel and holds 250 people standing; the Treehouse is the opposite extreme — six seats and a private canopy for the most intimate elopement on the island. A live ukulele or guitar player is built into every package, because Hotel Wailea understands what Maui does best and leans into it.