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The Kapalua Resort -- with the Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua, Kapalua Bay Hotel & Ocean Villas, The Kapalua Villas and Kapalua Luxury Homes – offers guests and visitors:
The Kapalua Bay Hotel & Ocean Villas and the Ritz-Carlton separately share and take full advantage of a spectacular master-planned setting along a coastline that is not matched on Maui. There’s a story and history behind how Kapalua Resort came about that is important for understanding its unique qualities.
Transformed from agricultural land to the elegant resort of today, the story reaches back to one of Maui's oldest missionary families. In 1836, Dwight Baldwin, a doctor with the fourth company of American missionaries to Hawaii, settled on Maui. Seventeen years later, Doctor Baldwin was granted 2,675 acres for farming and grazing. By the turn of the century, acquisition of new lands had created the 24,500-acre Honolua Ranch.
Managed by David Fleming, from Scotland, the ranch experimented with a few acres of a new fruit, hala-kahiki, pineapple. After tasting the sweet Kapalua-grown pineapple, H.P. Baldwin, son of Dwight Baldwin, envisioned a great future for the fruit and moved the Ranch's coffee-growing upland to make room for a pineapple cannery, homes for immigrant plantation workers, a railroad, store, and a new home for Fleming.
It did not take long for Honolua Ranch to become "Baldwin Packers," the largest producer of private label pineapple and pineapple juice in the nation. After WW II, the ranch's cattle operation ceased to exist. Through a merger with Maui Pineapple Company (1969), Baldwin Packers became Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc. (ML&P). ML&P’s president, Colin C. Cameron, a fifth-generation descendant of the Baldwin family, envisioned a resort community where all development would work harmoniously with the nature and contours of the land.
Today, the master-planned resort encompasses over 650 homes and condominiums, three championship golf courses, championship tennis facilities, The Kapalua Villas (a vacation rental program), the two premier hotels -- The Kapalua Bay Hotel and The Ritz Carlton, Kapalua -- the Kapalua Shops, and several outstanding restaurants. A 23,000-acre working pineapple plantation surrounds the 1,650-acre resort. Many old plantation buildings have new uses such as the new Art School at Kapalua, the Honolua Store, and D.T. Fleming's gracious old plantation home atop of Pineapple Hill.
Visitor's need to know that Kapalua's state-of-the art conservation programs include partnership arrangements with the State of Hawaii, The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii and Audubon International to preserve the unique Hawaiian environmental and cultural heritage of the Kapalua area. In 1995, the Kapalua resort established the Kapalua Nature Society to foster appreciation of Maui's and Kapalua's unique natural and cultural treasures, and to develop and provide environmental information, education and preservation programs.
All three Kapalua golf courses are "Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuaries." Kapalua's golf courses received this Sanctuary designation by meeting stringent environmental standards set forth by Audubon International for water conservation, habitat enhancement, public involvement, integrated pest management and more.
In August 1996, Kapalua became the first resort in the world to be certified by Audubon International under the Audubon Heritage Program which requires that the resort undergo a rigorous evaluation of its waste management, educational, cultural, natural preservation, wildlife protection and land conservation programs. In sum, when you look at Kapalua, what you see is much more than a traditional resort but a world-class destination and environmental model.
The Bay, The Village and The Plantation began with Arnold Palmer's Bay Course, opened in 1975, a 6,600- yard par 72 with gently rolling fairways and generous greens. Kapalua's Village Course twists, turns, rises and falls through the West Maui foothills over the par 71, 6,632-yard course. The resort's newest course, the par 73, 7,263-yard Plantation Course, designed by Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore, opened in 1991. The Plantation Course crosses panoramic oceanfront plateaus as it challenges the best of the PGA tour.
Kapalua Bay Hotel & Villas - CAMP KAPALUA engages children with sand castle contests, swimming at the beach or hotel pool, snorkeling, exploring tide pools, learning to boogie-board, Hawaiian crafts, recreational games, hula lessons, and eco-adventures. Kamp Kapalua meets at the Kapalua Bay hotel every day of the week from 9:30am - 4pm. It costs $45 for the first child and $35 for each additional child in the family and includes lunch daily. Ages 5-12, seasonal only.
Ritz Kidz is a full- or half-day camp-style program for children 5-12 years old. At a “Wednesday Night Out” program children are served dinner, watch a movie and have popcorn, games and activities.
The ultimate treatment (and gift) for romantic couples is: an oceanside two-hour Kapalua Bliss treatment, your senses surrounded by fragrant oils while your bodies receive a stone body massage, followed by facials (using a pure-honey exfoliant and an aloe vera mask), and hand and foot massages; or Hawaiian Tropical Flower Essence Therapy. Indoors or outdoors, this marvelous one-hour treatment for body and soul starts with warming your muscles with bags of pohaku (warm stones). After getting rubbed down with your choice of three flower-essence oils (each promising self-esteem, stress release or empowerment), you’re ready for a lomi lomi d-e-e-p massage. Stroked into Nirvana, you're next treated to a salt scrub and an aromatherapy mist (made of herbs, plants and flowers). To complete the withdrawal from reality, warm moist washcloths are placed over your eyes during the scrub down.