I got bumped from my Grand Wailea bookings in Feb because SAP bought out the hotel (and the Four Seasons, Marriott and Andaz too). We had two rooms, so they put us in a unit of Ho'olei across the street. Sounded like a nice upgrade, but it was weird and unpleasant. Garden view, which meant some trees in between you and the road about 12ft away. Unit was privately owned. The owners had terrible taste, dark rattan faux-asian furniture, and it was poorly maintained. The internet was a $20 crappy router that didn't reach the any of the bedrooms. The pots/pans/dishes were pretty trashed and pretty disgusting. Kitchen was pretty amazing though, albeit useless for one night at the end of a trip. The sink had a cool instant hot water dispenser, but it was clogged with limescale, so it actually burned me when I first turned it on. All showers/faucets had a big problem with clogs from limescale. And even though it was huge, we actually had one less bed, as our 2 x 2 Queen rooms were replaced by just 3 beds, two of them doubles. Kinda lame.

Only thing that was nice was we did have use of the Grand Wailea pools, and it was only the international SAP folks who had arrived, so it was near empty. We often had the rope swing/slides to ourselves. 80% of pool chairs empty, all but a couple cabanas unused. Almost surreal. They were setting up for a Katy Perry concert on the lawn between the Grand Wailea pools and the Four Seasons. The pool at the Ho'olei was pretty nice, with a neat waterfall, but fairly small.