Lanai City, HI Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Thinking of LaNA'I CITY as a town stretches the imagination; that it should call itself a "city" is little short of absurd. This neat, pretty community of just 2500 people, centered on a village green, was laid out on a basic grid pattern in 1924 to house laborers from the newly opened pineapple plantations, and it has barely changed since then. You have to search to find a two-story building: the leafy backstreets hold rows of simple plantation cottages, identical but for the colors they're painted and the rampant flowers in their gardens. Virtually all the daily business of Lanai revolves … more »