Kauai Marriott
 

Any recent visitors with feedback on this property ?

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December 2003
 

Don't know if you think Dec., 2003 is recent but.

I think I posted this before, but absolutely FANTASTIC property, location and reasonable food prices (room service/restaurants). Can't stop thinking about it still.

We were also given a awesome upgrade to a 2 Room Suite with large living room and dining room with a seperate bedroom. I am MR Plat and this was on a award stay no less.

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Hopefully we will be getting the same treatment since I am plat and we are on a awards stay !

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I loved the resort! The beach was superb, as was the pool! Talk about gigantic! The only drawback I found was the constant buzzing overhead of the tour helicopters taking off/landing at nearby LIH airport. But that wasn't the resorts fault, after all and didn't come anywhere close to spoiling my holiday. More like mosquitos buzzing around.

Enjoy!

Tymike - did you book a regular room or Vacation Club room? The Vacation Club rooms are the 2 room suites and I think may even be a few points less for the award (if it's available). We stayed there in the Vacation Club room two years ago and are planning to go back this year. The resort is wonderful.

Kauai Marriott
 

Mike

My wife and I will be at this location the first week of June on an award stay. You can shoot me an email about June 10th and I can give you an updated report.

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i sent you a private message. If you could e-mail me your thoughts to my loggin e-mail address i would appreciate it !

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Stayed there twice last fall and absolutely loved it!!! Will be staying there again, twice, very very soon! ;)

Great Property
 

My wife and I went here on our Honeymoon in 2000 and were there last May. We'll be booking again for our 5th anniversary next May. Wonderful property, great pool and great location. The airplanes are slightly annoying (I live close to O'Hare, so it's in comparison it's nothing!), but Lihue is roughly 1/2 way to Waimea canyon and 1/2 way to the Na Pali coast (each good day trips). Being close to LIH is nice when you arrive and when you leave (you can spend more of your last day at the hotel).

The vacation club rooms are nicer and closer to the ocean if you can get one, go for it.

ENJOY!!

We loved it. 7-nt award stay in May '03. We were upgraded to the top floor with a full ocean view as MR Gold. For certain lengths of time (3 nights, I think), the Vacation Club is the same price as a regular room. We had an 087 Package, so we did the "regular" hotel. Truly wonderful place...truly wonderful island.

Will be staying here over the July 4th holiday for ten days on an award stay. Have a confirmed room at the MVC for an oceanfront, 1 bed, 2 bath suite. Will post a full report when I return!

Alexander Spa at Kauai Mariott
 

Has anyone tried (or known anyone who has) the Alexander Spa at the Kauai Marriott? I have a brochure on it from the last visit there...considering it or the Princeville for an upcoming visit. I'd appreciate any feedback if available!
TIA!

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I already got my wife a gift certificate for our vacation the second week in july, so if any one has any feedback prior that would be great. If not I will post feedback when we get back. When are you going and are you staying at the marriott ?

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scott

I'll be there this weekend -- splitting my two nights between the Marriott & Sheraton...only because 1) I need *wood status nights, and 2) with *wood I can get a later checkout (redeye on the return) than I can at Marriott.

Will be back again later this summer for several days of golf with friends, not sure where we're staying then.

Just got back from a fantastic stay at the Marriott in Lihue!!!! I was upgraded from a garden view to an ocean view (I'm only a silver but this was my 3rd stay with them in about 9 months). Before leaving for dinner, I stopped down to say "hi" to the front desk manager as she'd been great on my 2 previous stays, chatted for a bit, and when I returned from dinner there was a very nice fruit plate waiting in my room!

I was back yesterday for a spa treatment at the Alexander Spa. It's a very small location, but run well and the people very willing to help & be flexible. Great products too. If anyone wants more details or has questions, please feel free to post here or PM me and I'll answer what I can.

I'm waiting for the Courtyard to open
 

No Marriott properties on Kauai offer rooms at the government rate, as far as I can tell. I have tried many times to book a room at this rate while on official business (I believe it is $157/night for Kauai, possibly seasonal) and have never been successful. To contrast this with Oahu, I have never had a problem at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa after no less than nine separate stays with them (with a duration of up to two weeks per stay).

I can't justify the $250+ rates for the most basic rooms on my expense report so I stay at a local condo while on the island.

See this link for an article on an upcoming Courtyard on Kauai, up in the Waipouli Beach/Kapa'a area. Hopefully the rooms will indeed be "moderately-priced" as the article explains.

If you can stomach a timeshare presentation, Marriott Kauai will give you 5 nights for $599, plus they even throw in some credit towards food/drink (maybe $75). It's probably subject to availability and blacked out for peak seasons, but it's worth asking for if you really want to stay at this Marriott. FWIW, Marriott timeshare presentations are less distasteful than most. The timeshares are walking distance from the resort, so the shuttle-bus-trap gambit is not in play. Do your 90 minutes, say NO about ten times, and walk away.

You can Priceline for about the same money, but it looks like more people get the Radisson than the Marriott. I don't think the Radisson is quite as nice as the Marriott.

From what I can tell it does not appear as though any of the properties on Kauai offer a government rate

I was able to reserve Garden View Rooms for $199 -- both my May 2004 trip as well as Dec 2003

Phone call from the Kauai Resort
 

We are a week away from staying at the Kauai Resort. My wife called to inform me that Shelley from the hotel called to find out what time we were arriving, if we were renting a vehicle or using the hotel shuttle and asking us to visit the "welcome desk" upon arriving at the hotel. Anyone have ideas about this? Is the visit to this desk to ask us to consider scheduling a timeshare presentation?

Did you happen to mention when making the reservation about a special event/birthday/anniversary/etc? Otherwise, you might call the front desk to ask. In three visits I've never seen a "welcome desk" per se....the Front Desk, Concierge & 2 Vacation Club desks in the lobby area.

I called the number that was left with my wife and got the voicemail for Shelley. Left her a message with my number so she can get back to me. Hopefully, she will, and I will find out what she originally wanted.

Don't you just love living on the road and calling home every evening to get 1/2 of a message...lol. Something like "Oh Dad, some man named, I think his name was George Cush called. He wanted to know if you wanted to run in a race with him in November. Something about he needs some kind of vice or something like that. Anyway, Mom said she didn't think it was that important either, but his number in Washington DC is 1-800-THE-PRES." :D

One of the advantages of living alone...and the dog is well-trained but hasn't quite managed to learn to answer the phone yet, let alone take messages!

I also thought...which Marriott did you book? If you go to the web site you can book the Marriott Kauai, or you can book the Marriott Kauai Beach & Resort Club (or something like that, I don't recall the exact name) -- they are at the same location, and probably the same rooms, but the 2nd is the timeshare-type property.

The reservation is for the Kauai Marriott Resort & Beach Club. Looking at the reservation on the Marriott webpage, the room we have is an "Ocean View". I think we can upgrade to a Deluxe Ocean View Room for 5,000 points per night. Since we leave next week and I have not "cashed in" any points for certs, I guess we will stay with the Ocean View room or maybe we might get lucky and get a PLT upgrade. Damn, poor choice of words for this forum this week. :D

I wouldn't cash in your points for certs. I was upgraded in Dec (as a silver, athough it was while talking with the Front Desk Mgr who had checked me in in Oct) from a pool view to the Deluxe Ocean View. I really didn't see much difference between the Deluxe Ocean View & the Ocean View except the bathrooms were a little bit different. Enjoy your stay -- let us know what you think afterwards!

Thanks for the advice....I will not use the certs since we plan on being on the go quite a bit while in Kauai and not too much in the room.

Made it back from Kauai and my stay at the Kauai Marriott Resort. A super nice place is my impression. Give it a 9 on a 10 scale.

Positives:

• Nice staff
• Clean hotel, in my mind - nicely decorated (what do I know since my wife says I have no taste...lol)
• Great location - right in the middle of the north and south beaches. Near the airport (we never heard airplanes and only a couple of helicopters while we were on the beach)
• Awesome swimming pool and a nice beach (would be nice if it was swept 1-2 times a week)
• Quick room service and good king crab/prime rib buffet on Fri/Sat evenings

Negatives:

• Checking in was told that we were in one of the best rooms of the hotel (room 1181), right in the middle of the property with best views of pool and beach. My wife is floating at the news and walks away. Clerk gives me a paper to sign stating I will pay extra $80/night above the award stay for this room. Not a good start to an otherwise, outstanding stay.
• Duke's Canoe Club - We ate upstairs twice, not having learned our lesson after the first meal. Service was poor, items ordered but never brought, incorrect change brought back to table after paying for meal (off $20 one night and $15 the second night), food was average at best

If anyone has any questions, please feel free to submit them and I will try to answer before the vacation memory is swept away by this mound of work that was waiting for my return. :eek:

Stayed there last year and were very pleased. It is a fabulous property with a lot going on. Later we jumped to Maui and stayed at the Ritz-Carlton Kapalua which is also very nice. My reason for bringing the Ritz up is that the Lihue Marriot we comparable. Both were top notch.

jimflick -- welcome to FT!!! Glad you enjoyed the stay at the LIH Mariott -- and thanks for the comparison to the Ritz as it will help me on a trip sometime to Maui!

We enjoyed our stay there. I did love the fact that when I mentioned how much I loved hearing the ocean and seeing it they upgraded us to an ocean front at no extra cost. It was a huge room and we were using Marriott Points to stay for free anyway.
The only minus I can think of is that the airport is right there and you hear the planes and helicopters coming and going.
I hope you enjoy your stay!!
Julie :D

We've been there twice on rewards and would like to again next summer.
- Great property!
- Paying extra for the ocean front room is a scam. We reserved one with the added fee, visited the room then immediatly returned to the front desk and expressed our dissapointment as we had to go on the balcony and look to the left to see the water. The manager immediatly dropped the extra fee. Worked for us as this is just a basic room with a pool view unless you are in the middle building that is parallel to the ocean and even that is not close as it's behind the pool.
- Our first trip was on a time share package. We were originally worried about being pressured as we've seen in Florida but it couldn't be farther from reality. No pressure and got resort credits a reward points. Would have possibly bought one if we didn't have to decide while on vacation.
- Sorry to hear about the post about Dukes as we've had nothing but good experiences and fond memories there.
- The resurant in the little shoppng center you can walk to was horrible.
- Friends and my wife used the spa for massages which they loved.

Have fun! ^