Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort & Spa

Pools The beach The shopping Mai Tais

Peaceful cleaning and manageable

Food isn’t diverse

We stayed at the Waikoloa Marriott for 3 nights in late October after visiting much of the rest of the big island. For a not-terribly-expensive middle of the road resort experience (we paid about $400 a night) to wrap up our trip this was perfect for us. The resort has a great layout with many places to enjoy open-air indoor/outdoor seating. The pool is modest compared to some of the other resorts we walked around, but was clean and is only a short walk to the beach. Our room was spacious and comfortable. The staff were very friendly every interaction we had with them. Our experience was probably enhanced given we were there off-peak season and it felt like there were only maybe a hundred other guests there with us. Could see the resort feeling smaller if it was packed to the gills with families over spring break etc.

We had to pay $35 a day for parking on top of our $400 a night rate... like cmon. Also, this is a dig at Waikoloa as a whole, not just the Marriott: it is the definition of bougie american-style insulated resort-landia. Replete with expensive shopping malls, overpriced restaurants, too many golf courses, and constant upsells. If this is your thing, then great. But know that anything approaching authentic Hawai'i is a 30+ minute drive away.

Really nice beach - good location- close to small shops. Nice pools - clean. Hottubs were really hot.

Extremely poor eating possibilities at the hotel - one restaurant - very simple menu with most unhealthy choices. For an adult to eat „healthy“ you could order only poke with fresh fish . The breakfast was a disaster - 50usd person plus 20% gratitude - poor choice of meals plus the first day- we got served rotten food ( strawberries that were obviously bad but served anyways, already green bagel, and old cereals- I was so shocked I did not even take picture- but told the waiter right away- did not help much but I complained about it at the reception - after the complain at the reception they took it from our bill at the end) we never ate there again- went to other shops and restaurants in neighborhood. As well only one place to get real coffee in the hotel - opened till 14.00 but closed when we came at 13.30;(((( The hallway was not kept clean ( door on room next to ours stayed stained for days, halls were not vacuumed regularly- there were obvious dirts- not what one expects form Marriott) The beach is wonderful though. We saw turtle on the beach- it is shallow and nice for kids - as it is sandy. Yet to rent a place to lay on 70USD for four hours. ;)