Also, because Lanai is so tiny and you arrive via a private jet, and then someone from the hotel is there to meet you, everyone knows exactly when you're showing up and they're ready for you. Check-in and check out were easy and hassle-free. There's also a hotel bar that serves cocktails and snacks.Īnd the service? True to brand, the service was spectacular. The restaurant is a beautiful glass and wood building that looks over the hotel's gardens. All meals are included and served at the main Nobu restaurant (there are no real set times, you sort of show up when you have a break in your schedule and you're hungry). Dinner is a five-course omakase, where Nobu classics like the miso cod make cameos. Kohlrabi salad with an addictive umami truffle and yuzu dressing and a roasted local white fish might be lunch. For breakfast there’s French toast (albeit made with an alt grain flour and monk fruit sweetener) and yogurt bowls with island honey. Many places throughout the island don't get strong service though.ĭrinking and dining-what are we looking at? The property collaborated with Nobu and the food is clean and delicious-unsurprisingly, lots of raw fish and produce like spicy microgreens and August-sweet tomatoes grown at Sensei’s hydroponic farm down the road. The quality is good when you're on the property. Is there a charge for Wi-Fi? No charge for Wi-Fi.
There are also Koele Suites, which are closer to 800 square feet and have dining areas that seat four, and a Kaiholena Suite, which is almost 2,000 square feet. I loved being able to enter my room through the main hotel or through the "backdoor" that led from my lanai into my room, and being able to sit on my patio at sunset and look out over the beautiful gardens. A huge bonus, whether you're on the ground level or the second floor, is that every room has an outdoor lanai (a porch). Very clean and modern yet with understated nods to place-subtle Hawaiian patterns, a discreet pineapple print on pillows, natural textures. My room was divine-a study in white on white on cream on winter white. Any tips on what to book? I stayed in a Koele Deluxe Room, which is about 50 square feet bigger than the Koele Room, so not much difference. David Agus, a leading oncologist, author, and professor at the University of Southern California. What's the backstory? As the name suggests, this is a new partnership between the Four Seasons Hotel Lanai at Koele, which, like 98 percent of Lanai (including a Four Seasons sort of beachy sister resort on the island), is owned by Silicon Valley billionaire Larry Ellison and is just off of a down-to-the-studs five-year renovation that ditched the dark lodge vibe for light wood and walls of windows, and Sensei, a wellness company founded by Ellison and Dr. The building itself is gorgeous and feels more like it should be on a tea plantation in Sri Lanka-all white, shutters, a sprawling wraparound porch. The arrival, by black car transfer from the Honolulu airport to a private airport and then a quick flight on a private jet, is pretty swank. It's inland, 1,800 feet above sea level and about a 20-minute drive to the nearest beach. Another huge point of differentiation for this hotel is that it is not on, overlooking, or even nearby the beach. It doesn't track with the lush jungle-green vegetation, waterfalls, and white sand beach version of Hawaii. For starters, Lanai has more Cook pine trees than palms, and looks almost arid in many places, with red dirt roads and scrubby brush. Why did this hotel catch your attention? Lanai in general and this property specifically do not feel like Hawaii.
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