Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa

On our last trip to Maui, we stayed at Hyatt Regency Maui in Lahaina for 5 days. I wanted to share some of the highlights of our trip. We traveled with our daughter (13 months at the time) and have some tips for traveling with baby here.

To visit Hawaii when we travelled, you had to have a negative COVID test within 72 hours of departure and download the results to the State of Hawaii’s site. Once registered and you upload your flight details and results, you receive a QR code to be scanned before exiting the airport.

Hotel

We stayed at the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort & Spa which I would highly recommend to families and couples traveling to Lahaina. The rooms are recently renovated and are beautifully done. The staff were all very helpful and accommodating for our large group (we traveled with my husband’s co workers). The pools are awesome and I hope to go back someday to experience the swim up bar (it is closed due to COVID). There is a separate kids pool with fountains and animals they can climb on in the water. I don’t remember the specifics as our daughter is not old enough to swim around on her own and mostly clings to us while we stand in the water.

It is truly “on the beach”! Many hotels say they are “on” the beach but you still have to travel down a path or through a small “jungle” to get there but all you have to do here is walk from the pool directly onto the sand! They also have penguins, parrots, swans, koi fish, and ducks around the resort that you can interact with. They have daily Pinguin feeds that you can sign up to attend and learn a little about the animals as well.

The buffet breakfast is at the Swan Court and you truly watch swans float by as you enjoy your food. (the buffet food is typical of other buffets I have had)

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Food

Although there are multiple restaurants at the resort, we ventured down to Whaler’s Village for more dining options (it’s about a mile walk on the oceanside, but there is also a trolley that will pick you up in front of the hotel). Some of our favorite restaurants were Leilani’s On The Beach and Monkeypod Kitchen (super kid friendly!). We ate at both restaurants multiple times on this trip!

Leilani’s On The Beach and Monkeypod Kitchen have pretty laid back atmospheres that were perfect for dinner with our daughter in tow. She even got a good nap in at Leilani’s!

As part of our stay, we had daily buffet breakfast at Swan Buffet. It was a small selection with 5-6 hot items, changed daily, and a few fruit and pastry items too. Our daughter usually had lots of fruit and some scrambled eggs or similar item when available. The staff was very attentive in the dining area and watching the swan swim by was a great bonus. Since the buffet was included in our stay, we ate there every morning but if it wasn’t included, we would have ate at some of the restaurants at Whaler’s Village or just grab something from the coffee shop at the resort.

Things to do

• Penguin feeding – The Resort has a daily penguin feeding you can sign up for but you can also see the penguins and parrots when you walk through the lobby most days.
• Walk to Whaler’s Village- It is about a mile walk to the village on the ocean side and it is so worth the extra time. I highly recommend walking during sunset and taking it as slow as you want to go. If you don’t want to walk, there is a trolley that takes you from the front of the hotel. The Village itself is full of restaurants and shops. You can grab ice cream or gelato, you can shop at Louis Vuitton or Lululemon, or, grab everything you might need at the ABC store.
• Whale Watching Tour- We had a blast on the whale watching tour with our group. It was part whale watching, part booze cruise so we left our daughter with a sitter and had a parents night out. It was amazing to see the whales that close up! I highly recommend going on one of the tours. You can sign up with one of the tour groups before your trip or find them at Whaler’s Village.
• Golf!!- No, we didn’t golf this trip but we would have loved to. Ka’anapalo Golf Course is right in front of the hotel.

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