Updated at 11:54 a.m., Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Royal Lahaina Resort reopens renovated rooms
Advertiser Staff
The first renovated rooms at the Royal Lahaina Resort recently opened as part of an ambitious $330-million redevelopment project at the Maui hotel on Ka'anapali Beach.Renovation work began in March at the hotel's main 330-room Lahaina Kai Tower, which is being upgraded at a cost of $30 million, or $90,000 per room.
Recently, the tower's 11th and 12th floors reopened to guests. Remaining rooms are expected to be finished by mid-February.
The grander plan is to transform the 536-room mid-price hotel on 27 acres into a luxury resort with a combined total of 455 luxury hotel rooms and multimillion-dollar condominiums.
Elements of the broader project include replacing an 11-court tennis complex, parking lot and roughly 200 low-rise hotel units with 125 townhouse-style villas, pools, a fishpond, new hotel lobby, spa, a Don the Beachcomber restaurant, underground parking and two tennis courts.
No start date for this phase of the project has been set, but the project is expected to take three years.
Royal Lahaina Resort is owned by the Hogan family, which founded travel service Pleasant Hawaiian Holidays. The owners unveiled their plan last year.
