Coco Palms Resort — Hotel in Kauai

No crosswalk to restaurant or beach. Negotiating highway crossing is treacherous. Restaurant — to put it nicely — is in shambles. Wait staff are nonexistent.

Hotel is in a state of disrepair. Elvis would be irate. He’s probably rolling in his grave — or maybe he’s the poltergeist that keeps dropping my internet connection which is driving me batty.

The swimming pool is more like a swamp, filled with all kinds of plant rubbish, tats, toads, bats, spiders the size of bats & cockroaches the size of rats!

Speaking of swamps, the parking lot literally is one! This property needs a major upgrade. Better yet, tear it down! Then leave the land alone. Or preserve the land and put up a simple Hawaiian Cultural Center where tourists and students can learn the Hawaiian ways.

The entire Wailua Valley has been sacred to the Hawaiian People and should never have been developed with homes MUCH LESS COMMERCIALLY! The saga of Coco Palms is an example of the calamity that befalls those who build on and exploit Hawaiian burial sites for monetary profit— who KNOWINGLY and RECKLESSLY BUILD ON NA IWI KŪPUNA. (Beware Kōloa as a similar fate may...

In 1979, my family and I and my best friend from high school traveled to Hawaii for 16 days for our high school graduation. One of our favorite stays was at the Coco Palms! Back then, the TV show, Fantasy Island was filmed there, and we got a chance to see many of the stars from the show, and the red island vehicles throughout the compound! I even met "Tatoo" in the gift shop/party store that was on the property. Like others, I fondly remember the nightly torch-lighting ceremonies, the palm grove with the long straight lines of trees, the outdoor showers and the big clam shell sinks in the bathrooms. I'm excited to hear that the property is being renovated!! I'm actually visiting O'ahu this week and hoping to come back to Hawaii again with my wife (who, by the way stayed at the Coco Palms as a kid, too... we just didn't know each other then) and stay once the renovations are complete!! Congratulations on this...

Coco Palms is a HUGE childhood memory. I stayed there a few times with my father, as it was his favorite resort. The memory of the men running with fire on chains that they swung with perfect precision to light the torches of the walkways all around the resort was a sight to see. I remember a clear as day the leopard with ruby eyes as a table in our chalet, and the out side garden shower with flowers all around. And Eating above the lagoon with all the fish that just seemed to be begging for you to throw some food their way. And that church, what a perfect little chapel in the middle of the palm forest. I do hope the renovations keep true to its original glory. I have a lot of film footage from are stays there If Hyatt needs any archives of the feel of the original Coco Palm. Let me know I would be happy to share. I hope to see you in 2018...