Billionaire’s resort gains AAA Diamond sparkle
BRUCE ASATO / OCT. 2015
The Four Seasons Resort Lana‘i joined the list of Hawaii’s AAA Five Diamond hotels and resorts.
Larry Ellison’s renovated oceanfront Four Seasons Resort Lana‘i has joined the list of Hawaii’s AAA Five Diamond hotels and resorts for the first time.
AAA released its 2017 Diamond lists for hotels and for restaurants simultaneously today.
Hawaii’s other top diamond-scoring hotels were the Ritz-Carlton Kapalua and the Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea, as well as the Four Seasons Resort Hualalai, on Hawaii island.
The state’s only Five Diamond-rated restaurants are La Mer in the Halekulani, first rated in 1990, and Chef Mavro, a top-tier awardee since 2008. Each retained its rating for this year.
Professional inspectors review nearly 28,000 hotels and more than 30,000 restaurants each year before awarding diamond ratings.
Of those, some 120 hotels and 63 restaurants across North America were awarded five diamonds.
AAA Four Diamond winners in Hawaii include 20 hotels and 10 restaurants around the state, including new-to-the-list One Forty, a steakhouse at the Four Seasons Resort Lana‘i, and The Mill House in Waikapu, Maui.
The lists of awardees will be posted online by Friday morning, according to AAA.
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Have you been there? It’s well earned, Congratulations!
It is cool if it has electricity. Recent guests had to cook their burgers over a candle flame. Sad, poorly run place with a hotel that stands for arrogance and the 1% at the expense of the rest of us.
Have you stayed there? Sure it is all 1%ers staying there but our neighbor island folks are working there and is it really the Hotel fault if power goes out. We all rely on our island grid run by HECO, HELCO or Maui Electric.
I will be happier when the locals are staying at the hotel and the vicious 1% are serving them.
5 star Hotel on Generator operating island. Last time heard this was Ricardo Montalban on Fantasy Island.