After an early morning flight from San Francisco direct to Maui’s Kahului airport, we picked up the rental car and headed straight for our hotel, the Renaissance Kapalua Bay Hotel. The photo is from the hotel lobby area (where we had to wait while they finished getting our room ready). The whole area is just open; on either side of the lobby are seating areas, one being the hotel’s bar area, the other just a lounge for relaxing in with views out over the gardens and ocean.
Once settled, we drove back down the road to Whalers Village in Ka’anapali to check out the stores, find somewhere for a light dinner (we had eaten a late lunch at the hotel’s poolside bar) and also work out where everything was for the Maui Marathon that we would be taking part in on Sunday.