Mauna Kea Beach Hotel Completes $180 Million Renovation

Mauna Kea Beach Hotel on Hawaii Island has completed a $180 million multi-phased renovation, introducing updated guestrooms, new pools, enhanced dining outlets, a redesigned golf course, and additional amenities.

Mauna Kea Beach Hotel has completed a resort-wide renovation valued at over $180 million, marking the most extensive transformation in the property’s 60-year history. The project includes upgrades to 252 guestrooms and suites, two new pools, enhanced dining venues, and a redesign of the Mauna Kea Golf Course by architect Robert Trent Jones Jr.

The renovation features a refreshed family resort pool, a new oceanfront hot tub, and five private cabanas equipped with loveseats, mini-refrigerators, and privacy curtains. A new oceanfront wellness retreat includes a 2,500-square-foot fitness center and an adults-only infinity lap pool with a lanai. Photovoltaic solar panels now supply approximately 45 percent of the resort’s overall electrical energy needs.

Dining enhancements include the debut of Hau Tree Cantina, offering contemporary regional Mexican dishes in the evening, and a refreshed Manta restaurant with a new garden-to-table menu using ingredients from Hawaii Island farmers, fishermen, ranchers, and the on-site 28,000-square-foot Ulu Garden.

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Public spaces now feature a curated gallery from the Rockefeller Art Collection, displaying more than 500 restored works, including Hawaiian kapa cloth, quilts, and artifacts from the Pacific Rim and Southeast Asia. Renovated guestrooms and suites in both the Main Tower and Beachfront Wing preserve original terrazzo and blue tile flooring and add amenities such as filtered water stations and complimentary reusable water bottles.

Additional enhancements include the opening of the Ulu Garden, upgraded in-room amenities, and measures to reduce single-use plastics. The Seaside Racquet Club, with nine tennis courts and eight pickleball courts, remains part of the resort’s wellness offerings.

The Spa at Mauna Kea is scheduled to open in spring 2026 and will feature 11 treatment rooms, indoor and outdoor couples suites, purification gardens, steam and sauna facilities, a movement pavilion, and a spa vitality pool.

The renovation coincides with the resort’s 60th anniversary and an upcoming grand reopening gala in June. A Grand Reopening Package is available for a required four-night stay, including the night of June 5, with daily breakfast for two at Manta restaurant and two tickets to the gala. Guests reserving additional nights before or after the package will receive daily breakfast and a $100 resort credit per night for those dates. Reservations for the package are now available.