Plantation Inn

I thought it might be good to separate out the hotel experience itself in case anyone is at all looking at this with an eye to a Maui trip.

Plainly put, we liked the Inn. Conrad and I had a ground floor room with a lanai (jeepers but that makes me sound so Golden Girls!) that opened on to the pool. FXK and Kim had a second floor room on a corner that overlooked the pool and the small side parking. The rooms were a nice size each, while the lanai was a bonus seating area.

There was a family at the hotel when we arrived, including three girls all enjoying the pool. We never saw them after that. Mostly it was couples, mostly in their 30s to 50s, some European couples, some gay couples other than us. In practice, this meant that there never seemed to be "competition" for the pool and hot tub, and that the chairs by the deck were often free. Some couples were friendly and also chatted, others kept to themselves. We like to think we were in the former category.

Breakfast was included with all rooms, and it was served by the pool. Coffee, juice, and fruit were provided, and we had a choice from among poached eggs Basque-style, a soufflé-like French toast, granola with yogurt, or bagel with cream cheese and even smoked salmon. I mostly had the eggs, and they were quite good.

Parking was convenient, the staff was entirely friendly. Best of all, perhaps, was that we were such a short walk from the shops, restaurants, bars, and attractions in town without having to hear any of the Front Street hubbub. We loved being able to walk to dinner so easily, and it was great to window shop and browse in the stores.

As for Gerard’s the restaurant at the hotel, well, it wasn’t what it could have been, but more on that in another post.

Should we return to Maui, the Plantation Inn will be an option we’ll strongly consider.