AC Hotel by Marriott Maui Wailea

Love this hotel - the pool and pool area is gorgeous - views are amazing and all of the staff are so friendly and helpful! The food at the bar and the cocktails were all very good. So special to sit on the balcony and enjoy the views also from your room - with your own drink - extra touch is having your glasses already set up in the fridge! Love that.

Great location to be able to walk to a bunch of shops and restaurants. The sunset was amazing on one of our nights and enjoyed the pool. As Elite members we were surprised we weren’t asked that when we checked in. We ended up in a room next to the road with trucks roaring by at 4:30AM. And again as a few other people said the annoying techo music being played. Any kind of island music would be better.

We needed a hub in Wailea for our adventuring around and AC provided the perfect place for that! Hotel felt fresh, modern and very clean. We got a gorgeous corner ocean view room which was icing on the cake! Didn't spend too much time at the pool but it was well set up & never too busy during our visit. We drove to a few beaches that were less popular and more secluded, but I think there was walkable access to the beaches by the resorts on the beach - not a far drive either. Proximity to the shops & market were nice. We walked often - the plaza right across the street had a lot of good restaurants and coffee shops and Monkeypod is just up the hill walking distance too. We also loved that our snorkel tour HQ was RIGHT next door, too! Check out the Aquarium/Marine Center included with your resort fee - we went and were really impressed by it. Its roughly 20 mins away. Tickets are a $50 value per person so we were pretty impressed they were included!

Location is good, just five minutes walk from the Wailea Shops, which contains upmarket shops and quality restaurants. Hotel and our room were spotlessly clean and staff were always helpful and friendly. All rooms have a balcony. Swimming pool has an attached bubble pool, though they were rather small and finding a sunbed would be challenging if the hotel was full. There was a nice breakfast facility with a small shop selling everyday essentials nearby. Bar was okay serving typical Hawaiian bar food. A downside was the monotonous supermarket type music played all in the pool area which also could be heard in the rooms. It got more annoying as the week progressed.

I agree with most of the reviews, except I’m surprised others did not comment on the lack of soundproofing. We were woken up three of 5 mornings by the people above, twice at 4:30am. It seems like pilots stay here which could explain the early mornings. But with a relatively new hotel, you would think that they would have thought this through more.