Wailea, HI Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Both South Kihei Road and Pi'ilani Highway end on the southern fringes of Kihei. The only road south, branching off Okolani Drive halfway between the two, is Wailea Alanui Drive , which becomes Makena Alanui Drive after a couple of miles. It's forced to run several hundred yards inland by a sequence of half a dozen colossal resort hotels, constructed on a scale to rival any in Hawaii. Neither WAILEA nor MAKENA is a town as such; were it not for the resorts, the names would not even appear on island maps. The only shops in the area are congregated in the very upmarket new Shops at Wailea mall, whose target audience … more »