Puako Home Sales / Kohala Coast Properties

When Mauna Kea Beach Hotel is opening again. The hotel first opened in July of 1965, Mr. Laurance S. Rockefeller surprised the travel industry in many ways.  Not only did he contstruct a luxurious retreat for privileged few on an all-but-unheard of tropical island, he paid more for it than any other hotel ever built (15 million). The architectural firm Skidmore Owings Merrill juxtaposed elements of modern, geometrical western design with the understated “shibumi” (essential) elements of the East.

The golf designer , Robert Trent Jones, Sr. created a course by crushing the barren lava  rock into soil, and decorators Davis Allen and Phyllis Brownlee filled the guestrooms, dining rooms and public spaces with the finest furnishings and appointments money could buy. Remarkably, this included over 1,600 pieces of authentic Pacific and Asian artworks and artifacts.   By Catherine Bridges Tarleton– from the self guided tour.

 Mauna Kea Resort is only a 5 minute drive from Puako. Glad to have our neighbors back.

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