Kahului, HI Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Although KAHULUI is the largest town on Maui – it holds the island's principal harbor and airport, and most of its major shopping centers – it's not an interesting, let alone historic, place to visit. A handful of inexpensive hotels stake a claim for Kahului as a convenient central base, but there's next to nothing to see here, and you could miss it altogether with a clear conscience. Having started the nineteenth century as a small cluster of grass shacks, Kahului grew in tandem with the expansion of commercial agriculture. After the Kahului and Wailuku Railroad opened in 1879, it … more »