Lahaina, Maui - Day 3

We caught a 6am shuttle to the airport today and made the short hop from Oahu to Maui.  The flight  was nice and short and on time.  However, when we got to the rental car agency they informed us we had no reservation.  I dug out our confirmation and she dug around in the computer and found our reservation had been cancelled!  Alamo was very nice about it and gave us our car and promised they would work it out with our tour company to fix it.  (I later called the tpur company and confirmed our car is not cancelled on the next island and our flights home are still booked)

Lahaina

We drove to our  hotel - about 45 minutes west of the airport in Lahaina.  The drive was along the coast and we marvelled at the blueness on one side and the greenness of the mountains on the other side.  The landscape seems drier here, there are several different varities of cactus growing.

driving to hotel

Hotel check-in was 3pm and we arrived at the hotel at 10:30am.  Our room was still occupied so they gave us our parking pass and we walked to the town to shop and look around.  Lahaina is a nice, small, artsy town with many souvenier shops and almost as many art galleries!

Once we were able to check in, we found a nice surprise - our room is on the corner of the hotel so we have two sliding glass doors on two walls leading to two balconies!  It has an amazing view of the ocean and beach.  We've got both doors open for a cross breeze instead of air conditioning and can hear the waves crashing.

In the evening we took a walk on the beach and watched the sun set over the ocean.

view out our hotel room

More  pictures available here:  http://imageevent.com/nbachick/hawaii2007

beach in front of hotel

hotel

sunset