For thirty-five years, Bob and I, together, have been visiting my family on Kauai. We always stay with my father. This year, as a treat, we decided to book two nights at the Grand Hyatt Poipu. We have long been familiar with this hotel. Usually, we would walk through the property's gorgeous lobby to get to Shipwrecks Beach—or we would buy passes to work-out at the hotel's gym. Sometimes we would eat in one of the hotel restaurants. But we had never booked a room. We did this time and, boy are we glad to have done so.
The hotel is very nice. It certainly has grandeur—though it is grand without a trace of glitziness. Every element of the hotel suits my aesthetic. While I have stayed in a few hotels which might have one additional star, I cannot say that I have enjoyed those more. The Grand Hyatt Poipu is comforting and rejuvenating.
At the center of the hotel's 600+ rooms is a complex of pools. A couple of them are "lazy rivers" which wend through lava rock serpentines, under bridges and past waterfalls. Another is a brackish lagoon—half fresh water, half salt water—which lays alongside a sandy beach. And then there is the "family pool," complete with a twisting slide—which we enjoyed more times than your average sixty-somethings. If one prefers something more natural, Shipwrecks Beach is a stone's throw from the hotel.
We had such a relaxing time at the Hyatt. I heartily recommend it (save up!) and know that we will probably make this a regular feature of every visit we make to Kauai.
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