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Feb 18, 2008 | 11:38 am

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USirritated

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A contrasting view on Kauai Marriott Resort & Beach Club

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Originally Posted by Renard

I'm heading to the Kauai Marriott Resort next month and was wondering about a couple of details....I understand there is no resort fee but they charge for self-parking. Is that what others recall? Thanks.

I just returned from two weeks in Hawaii, having stayed in four different hotels:
1 - JW Marriott Ihilani Resort & Spa at Ko Olina, a fantastic resort!

2 - Hilton Hawaiian Village (I had a 4 day professional conference being held there, the grounds are wonderful, the rooms and restaurants are tired)

3 - Kauai Marriott Resort & Beach Club, physically a beautiful resort, but the hotel rooms are TIRED, and the staff poorly trained, I arrived at about 8:30 PM, and the front desk staff did not know that Dukes and the in house Italian restaurant closed at 10 PM! They told me the the restaurants served until 11 PM, so by the time I finished checking in, went to my room and got settled in, and came downstairs, the restaurants were closed, and so was every other restaurant on the island! They ended up setting up a special table for me on the terrace and serving me there, and comping that meal. It turned out that my "pool view room" had a view of the green terrace roof until they moved me, and the hotel admitted to their bad service by comping me some meals and applying credits to my room folio. In answer to your question, there is NO RESORT FEE, and about the parking, there is self parking there for $7, and valet is $10, but no parking is under cover. Believe me, you do not want to self park there! Use the valet, one of the few well staffed, well trained staff areas of the resort.

4 - Wailea Beach Marriott Resort & Spa (Maui)- a beautiful resort, I got a beautiful upgrade, they make great banana chocolate smoothies, and my only real complaint is the $25 daily resort fee.

PS. While I was there I visited 4 Vacation Clubs too. Ko Ilina next to the JW Marriott on Oahu (nice, not great), Hilton Hawaiian Village (nothing special, location cramped), Waiohai Beach Club on Poipu Beach, Kauai (this one was low key, and quite nice, very friendly, comfortable and family oriented, great scenery), and finally Maui Ocean Club on Ka'anapali Beach (very nice).