Kahekili Beach Oceanfront Condo Rental | Mahana 418, Kāʻanapali
Kahekili Beach · Kāʻanapali

A Kahekili Beach oceanfront condo, thirty feet from the water

The quiet north end of Kāʻanapali, on five landscaped oceanfront acres. Unit 418 is the last unit on the road, and the beach gate opens onto the reef.

What “oceanfront” should mean

Every listing on this coast says oceanfront. On the ground it can mean a partial ocean view over a parking structure, a building across a road from the sand, or a unit facing the resort lawn. The word is doing a lot of work.

The Mahana sits directly on Kahekili Beach with nothing between the building and the water. Unit 418 is roughly thirty feet from the Pacific — close enough that you watch green sea turtles from the lanai and, from December to April, whales from the sofa. Every window opens to the sea.

If you are comparing condos here, the question to ask is not whether a unit is oceanfront. It is: what is between the lanai and the sand, and which direction does it face?

The north end versus the resort strip

Kāʻanapali is really two stretches. The south end — Whalers Village, the Sheraton, the Hyatt, the Westin — is the postcard: resort pools, beachfront bars, a paved boardwalk, and the prices that go with them.

Keep driving north and the coast turns residential. Low-rise buildings on Kahekili Beach, then Honokōwai and Kahana. The beach gets quieter, the water gets calmer, and the snorkeling gets substantially better — the reef here is the reason people who know the island stay at this end.

There is a longer comparison in our guide to choosing a Kāʻanapali condo.

The building and the grounds

Inside unit 418

A full designer renovation, and the best-equipped unit in the building. It sleeps four: a king bed plus a queen sleeper sofa, dressed in high-thread-count linens, with central air conditioning — not a given in older West Maui condos.

Family-owned and personally managed. Your booking request comes to us, not to a desk.

Turtles & snorkeling
The reef straight off the beach gate
Beaches
Kahekili, Black Rock, Kapalua and more
Dining
Walkable dinners and the sunset splurge
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Turtles at breakfast, whales from the sofa.

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