Modern accommodations styled by Barry Design Associates are but one spur of Grand Wailea’s recent renovations, which also brought the gargantuan Spa Grande to beautiful new heights. A fresh culinary team under executive chef Ryan Urig includes chef de cuisine Mike Lofaro at the helm of the resort’s signature seafood eatery, the Polynesian thatch-roofed Humuhumunukunukuapua’a (named after the reef triggerfish). Check out other tantalising facets such as the five-course affair of restaurant Ka Malama plating ingredients in accordance with the ancient Hawaiian lunar calendar – but a flavour of the experience at this 16-hectare oceanfront enclave.

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