Brown’s Beach House restaurant at the Fairmont Orchid resort and Travaasa Hotel Hana (formerly the Hotel Hana Maui and Honua Spa) have joined the AAA Four Diamond lists for 2012. It is the first listing for Brown’s Beach House restaurant, while the Hotel Hana Maui and Honua Spa was last listed in 2010, and had been a Four Diamond property for seven consecutive years. The hotel’s Kauiki Dining Room also had been listed among the Four Diamond-winning restaurants in 2009 and 2010.

Added late last year and not on the 2011 lists issued in January, the properties are the only new Hawaii additions to either coveted roster.

La Mer restaurant at the Halekulani retained the Five Diamond rating it first attained in 1990, while Chef Mavro maintained the Five Diamonds initially awarded in 2008.

Five Diamond ratings also were retained by the Four Seasons Resort Hualalai, which made the list in 1998, by Maui’s Ritz-Carlton Kapalua (1996) and by the Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea (1991).

Hawaii’s top AAA Diamonds 2012

Entries are followed by the year they first received their current, consecutively maintained diamond rating.

AAA FIVE DIAMOND RESTAURANTS

Chef Mavro (2008)
La Mer (1990)

AAA FIVE DIAMOND LODGINGS

Hawaii island
Four Seasons Resort Hualalai at Historic Ka’upulehu (1998)

Maui
The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua (1996)
Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea (1991)

AAA FOUR DIAMOND RESTAURANTS

Hawaii island
Brown’s Beach House (2011)*
Pahui’a (2000)

Kauai
Dondero’s (2008)

Lanai
The Dining Room (2008)

Maui
The Banyan Tree (2002)
Spago (2010)
Sarento’s on the Beach (2003)

Oahu
Bali Steak & Seafood (1989)
Hoku’s (2002)
Orchids (1995)
Tokyo Tokyo Restaurant (2006)
Azul (1996)

AAA FOUR DIAMOND LODGINGS 2012

Hawaii island
Mauna Lani Bay Hotel & Bungalows (1999)
The Fairmont Orchid, Hawaii (1991)

Kauai
Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa (1991)
The St. Regis Princeville Resort (2010)

Lanai
Four Seasons Resort Lana’i at Manele Bay (2007)
Four Seasons Resort Lana’i, The Lodge at Koele (2008)

Maui
Travaasa Hotel Hana (2011)*
Hyatt Regency Maui Resort & Spa (1995)
The Westin Ka’anapali Ocean Resort Villas (2010)
Grand Wailea, A Waldorf Astoria Resort (1999)
The Fairmont Kea Lani, Maui (2002)
Wailea Beach Marriott Resort & Spa (2008)

Oahu
Halekulani (2001)
Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach Resort & Spa (2008)
The Kahala Hotel & Resort (2006)
The Modern Honolulu (2010)
Trump International Hotel Waikiki Beach Walk (2010)
JW Marriott Ihilani Resort & Spa at Ko Olina (2000)

* Added at the end of 2011. Entry was not on the January 2011 list.

Source: AAA