Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa (Kauai, Hawaii)

Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa is situated on 1571 Poipu Road, Koloa, HI 96756 on the south side of Kauai.

According to Grand Hyatt Kauai's website, there are 602 guestrooms with private balcony/lanai. There are complimentary daily activities and classes. In addition, there is also Camp Hyatt for kids age 3 to 12 years old with a fee.

There is also a golf course on site which faces the ocean and many restaurants on site as well. The hotel offers their own luau every Thursday and Sunday.

Comparing this hotel to St. Regis Princeville, this resort has more things to do and is much bigger. The kids like the different pools they have especially the slide and lazy river which St. Regis didn't have. This hotel is also cheaper compared to St. Regis but does not give you an intimate feeling like St. Regis as there are not many people staying at St. Regis. Another good thing about St. Regis is that their beach have calm waves, so we can go and snorkel.

Here are some pictures of the hotel.

As with other hotels, this hotel also charges a resort fee which is $31.25.

Resort fees include:
1. 2 bottles of water
2. fitness classes
3. access to the 24 hour gym
4. wi-fi
5. self laundry with detergent provided
6. self parking
7. daily activies such as feeding the koi fishes, parrot show, etc
8. use of the multiple pools, water basketball, water volleyball and water soccer
9. filtered water
10. many more that are shown in the picture below

The resort is really big, so I would suggest that you request for a room near the pool if you have kids that like to be in the pools all day long. They have a nice water slide that we went multiple times, we also played water basketball and of course the hot tub.

Here are pictures of the different pools and slides.

More pictures on the beach. As you can see, the waves are huge and there is also a red flag to warn people that it is not recommended to swim in the beach.

The pictures of the Anara Spa facilities is on another post.

Day 6 -- Kauai, Hawaii

06/15/2016 Wednesday

We will be checking out of the hotel today as we plan to stay in Grand Hyatt in the South for the next few days. The reason being that there are more activities in the South and the weather is better there as well.

We wanted to make good use of the amenities in the hotel before checking out, so we spend the entire morning in the pool and beach snorkeling.

As you can see from the pictures below, it was another cloudy day. I read previously that North shore in Kauai is one of the wettest spot in U.S. and it's true. The 2 days that we were there, it was always raining and cloudy. Thus, I am actually glad that we only stayed here for 1 night.

After checking out around 12 noon, we decided to check out some of the beaches in the North shore. On the way, we saw St. Regis hotel and from the picture below, you can see that it sits on a cliff.

We first stopped in the town of Hanalei and have some lunch.

Then we went to Hanalei beach.

Next, we went to Tunnels beach (7640 Kuhio Hwy, Kauai, HI 96714) where there are people snorkeling.

Across the Tunnels beach, it was the wet and dry cave (Maniniholo, Waikanaloa & Waikapalae).

It started pouring again, so we didn't stayed long and left to go to Anni beach. I think Anni beach is the most beautiful beach that I have visited in Kauai so far. It reminds me of Kailua beach in Oahu.

After that, we went to Kilauea Lighthouse (3500 Kilauea Rd, Kilauea, HI 96754)

By then, everyone was tired, so we decided to check in to our hotel, Grand Hyatt Kauai (1571 Poipu Road, Koloa, Hawaii 96756). The check in time is 4pm and check out time is 11am. We will be staying here for the next 3 nights.

We were all welcomed with fresh orchid leis and the kids were given a goody bag each with sunglasses and a pineapple drink container.

The resort is huge and very beautiful.

There are multiple pools with a big slide and small slide. In addition, there was also a lazy pool which the kids enjoyed with their floating device.

Soon, it was dark and we decided to venture outside of the hotel for dinner. It was a bad choice as the restaurant that we wanted to go was about 20 minutes away. There was no street lights for most of the journey and it was hard to drive in the dark on the roads that we are unfamiliar with.

I have a separate post on the restaurant.