Mauna Kea Beach Hotel: Hotel History

Hawaii Island’s Mauna Kea Beach Hotel is an international destination resort upholding timeless traditions of understated elegance and aloha since 1965. Generations of families gather to relax, reconnect, create memories and enjoy life’s simple pleasures. Award-winning mid-century modern architecture with a priceless museum-quality collection of Asia-Pacific art while the resort’s natural beauty is anchored by pristine Kauna’oa Bay. Mauna Kea Beach Hotel’s magic is brilliantly magnified by its thoroughly otherworldly setting. There is no where as captivating as Mauna Kea Beach Hotel. Here, old-style Hawaiian ambiance and charm, an oceanfront setting on the white sands of Kauna’oa Bay, one-of-a-kind architecture and many amenities, places the resort apart from any other. Laurance S. Rockefeller himself remarked more than fifty years ago that “The beauty of the scenery seems to have entered the souls of the people. For there is beauty of spirit here, the spirit of Aloha.”