Maui No Ka Oi

Mini-Blog on Maui:  Quick tips for a co-worker making her first trip to Maui last week:

First and foremost, Food:
If you can't enjoy a barbeque in your brother-in-law's backyard you can enjoy these fine establishments.  For some quick local style barbeque, try the Mama's Korean/Hawaiian Barbeque in this strip mall in Kapalua.

Eat Maui Tacos “broke da mouth” style in Lahaina.    For fancy fancy seafood (and you'll pay for it) try the delicious Mama's fish house in Paia.

Don't miss the sunrise at Haleakala.  You can do the bike trip down, but we had a great time just driving up the 10,000' + mountain in the early morning and seeing the amazing sight before driving back down.  Really beautiful.  But wear a COAT!  no joke it's cold up there at 5am.

Golf:  Fortunate enough to golf Kaanapali Kai (not that great), Kapalua Plantation Course (most famous, but overpriced and kind of rude), and Wailea Emerald Course (best experience of the bunch).

We stayed on Kaanapali Beach, and really enjoyed it.  There are several hotel and resorts to visit, and a small shopping center lockated on the beach called Whalers Village.  There is more shopping in Kihei Kalama Village , which is an outdoor marketplace, and the very upscale Shops at Wailea

Be sure to hang out in Lahaina, even take in a Luau if you want.  It's a good spectacle, and it's right on the beach.  And go whale watching and snorkling out at Molokini. 

My Facebook Photo Album from February 2006.  We traveled with the Walters Family and stopped by the Maui Lockes for some family time.