Best Hotels in Kauai

There are just so many wonderful places to stay that it’s difficult to pick out the best hotels in Kauai, but here are just a few examples to whet your appetite.

"One man’s meat is another man’s poison" so when trying to describe the best hotels in Kauai, it’s a bit of a tall order. You can’t please all the people all the time, some people (who can afford it) would take the best hotel to mean the most luxurious, the best food, the best service and the most expensive, whereas a person or a family traveling on a tight budget might think that the best hotel is the one closest to the beach with the cheapest prices. For these reasons, let’s try to look at a variety of the best hotels, and try to please most of the people, most of the time.

Luxury Hotels in Kauai

If luxury is what you’re after, then you’ve certainly come to the right place. There are more luxury hotels in Kauai than you can shake a stick at, let’s take a look at a few examples:

• Aston Islander on the Beach – on the east coast of Kauai, this hotel has a fantastic beach front location (hence the name) in the Coconut Plantation Resort. Just imagine falling asleep and waking every morning to the sounds of the ocean waves in any of the rooms in this truly magical location. Sit in the beautiful landscaped gardens by the pool, walk along the white sands or take a trip to the Coconut Marketplace with more than 60 speciality restaurants and shops.
• Kauai Marriott Resort & Beach Club – just a short 5 minute drive from Lihue Airport, you’ll be donning your swimmers and making a splash within minutes of touchdown if you book into this luxurious hotel (the name says it all doesn’t it?) Just imagine 51 acres of the lushest, most exotic gardens combined with the indistinguishable Hawaiian hospitality and luxurious Marriott accommodation, in fact, why not book a vacation now and you won’t need to imagine it for long.

Budget Hotels in Kauai

For those traveling on a little more of a budget, there are still plenty of choices available in Kauai. Take a look at these gems:

• Kauai Palms Hotel – if you book into this fantastic centrally located hotel you’ll be forgiven for forgetting that you’ve got any kind of budget at all. The modern, plantation style accommodation is close to the Lihue airport and has tons of local eateries just minutes away, as well as the wonderful white sands and the surf of Kalapaki Bay. Tasteful and modern, and all this starting from around $75 per night.
• Hotel Coral Reef – We’re talking sauna, we’re talking waterfall swimming pool, we’re talking whiling away the hours right on the beach front to the sounds of the ocean waves, sea birds and watching the humpback whales glide by with the occasional spout of salty spray in a turquoise sea (not guaranteed but you could be lucky). We’re talking the perfect holiday paradise in one of the first hotels ever built on the wonderful Royal Coconut Coast, but don’t worry, it’s all been upgraded.

Though the hotels in Kauai are easy to access and offer you a wide range of amenities, there’s nothing like feeling like you’re at home when you’re on vacation. When you look into vacation rentals by owner, you will find home settings where you can truly relax and unwind from the rest of your life. Whether you decide to go on vacation with your spouse or with your family, you want to have enough space and the privacy you crave. Hotels just can’t always give you that, can they? When you’re on vacation, the only screaming children you want to hear are your own – and even then, not really.