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Before you can decide where to stay on
Maui, you have to decide whether you prefer a hotel or a condo.
The advantages of a hotel are:
 | More elaborate grounds and pools and lobbies -
Hotel grounds are usually lush with beautiful plants and flowers, pools
are usually large and interestingly shaped and there are often multiple
pools, lobbies are large and may be lavishly decorated. |
 | Air conditioning - All major Maui hotels, but only
some Maui condos, are air conditioned. |
 | Shops and restaurants in the building - You don’t
have to drive or even walk far to shop or to eat. |
 | More service - Hotels usually have daily maid
service, available room service, and a bellman to help with your luggage
or to park your car if you wish. |
 | Consistent quality of rooms - All of the rooms in
any one hotel are similarly decorated and updated, so if you are staying
at a top-quality hotel you are not likely to get a poorly maintained or
worn-looking room. |
The advantages of a condo are:
 | More space - Condos give you more room to spread
out, especially helpful for families traveling with children. |
 | More rooms - Condos usually have a living room,
bedroom and kitchen, and sometimes a dining room and extra closets.
Two-bedroom condos often have two bathrooms. |
 | Kitchen - Since condos have a kitchen, you can
save money on restaurants by eating some of your meals in the condo. Even
if you don’t want to cook, you will have a full-size refrigerator to store
carried-in foods. |
 | Sharing - Two couples traveling together can share
one condo and split the cost. |
 | Price - Most Maui condos cost less per night than
most Maui hotels. |
 | BUT - Some of the cheaper condos do not have air
conditioning or daily maid service, so be sure to ask about that. Some
people don’t mind using just open windows and ceiling fans, but personally
I would not stay on Maui without air conditioning, especially in the
hottest months of June through October. |
 | AND - Bear in mind that the quality of condo rooms
varies widely, both from one condo building to another, and from one unit
to another within the same condo building. Each unit in a condo is
individually owned, and some owners do not keep their décor and
furnishings updated as well as others. |
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What about a “resort”?
There is no good definition of what constitutes a resort.
Many places call themselves resorts when they are nothing but plain simple
condos. So pay no attention to the word resort in the name of a Maui hotel or
condo, and use more specific criteria to choose, as discussed on the following
pages of this website.
Once you have decided whether you want a
Maui hotel or a Maui condo, move on to these next three steps:
Decide which part of Maui to stay on
Choose your specific hotel or condo
Choose how to reserve your hotel or condo room
If you would prefer just an
alphabetical list of links to the pages about each hotel and condo,
click on this link:
Maui Hotels and Maui Condos
alphabetical list
For a complete guide to everything about your Maui
vacation, click here for the Maui Info section of
this website. There you will find one document that you can read on the web or
print to take with you, that covers Maui activities, beaches, sightseeing,
restaurants, as well as Maui hotels and condos. Some of the information on
these pages about Maui hotels and condos is taken from that main Maui Info guide
section of this website.
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