Maui no ka oi for spa lovers

We all know Maui's no ka oi, but the best gets even better thanks to a spa lovers package available at the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort & Spa's oceanfront Spa Moana.

Four-night packages start at $969 per person for terrace accommodations and include:

>> Complimentary Spa Moana amenity basket

>> 25-minute awapuhi (ginger) body wrap

>> Daily buffet breakfast at Swan Court

>> 50-minute deep tissue, lomilomi or Swedish massage

>> 50-minute facial

Spa Moana offers a fitness room with an ocean view, 11 treatment rooms, a full-service beauty salon, sauna and steam rooms and a luxury spa suite for couples who want to enjoy treatments together.

The No Ka Oi Spa package will be available through Dec. 21, 2003, and includes a complimentary fifth night stay. Discounts are also available for additional nights.

For reservations, call 1-800-55HYATT (554-9288) from the United States and Canada.

Also available is a Romantic Indulgences package starting at $858 per person for terrace accommodations and including a complimentary fifth-night stay.

Couples will be welcomed with lei and chilled champagne and chocolate truffles. Couples may also book a 50-minute duet massage at Spa Moana, enjoy a romantic dinner for two at Swan Court, and take a romantic "Tour of Stars," a guided tour of Maui's skies with the hotel's director of astronomy.

Just like home, but better

Why stay in a room when all the space and comfort of home can follow you on your Kauai jaunt? Classic Vacation Cottages offers three-bedroom houses from $100 a night and two-bedroom houses from $80 a night in Poipu, on Kauai's south shore.

In addition, families have free use of tennis courts, a swimming pool, two hot tubs, snorkel and beach gear.

For more information, call (808) 332-9201.

Poipu Beach was ranked No. 1 in Dr. Beach's 2001-02 annual "America's Best Beaches" list. It's also an area known for hiking trails and welcomes visitors during the annual Koloa Plantation Days celebration of Kauai's sugar plantation heritage the last week of July.

For more information, call the Poipu Beach Resort Association toll-free at 1-888-744-0888, or visit poipu-beach.org.

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