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It was the oldest hotel in Lahaina and on the island of Maui and the oldest in continuous operation in the state of Hawaii. It was a contributing building in the Lahaina Historic District, a U.S. National Historic Landmark, [3] and since 2016 was one of the Historic Hotels of America. [4] It joined Best Western in 1997.
Royal Lahaina Hotel Manager Yvette Kitagawa and Stephen Hinck, area managing director—Hawaii Highgate, who were on property when the fire broke out, said the resort’s first mission was to take ...
Aug. 27—LAHAINA — Known outside Maui largely as a tourist attraction, visitor brochures obscure the fact that Lahaina for the most part is a working-class community with a sizeable immigrant ...
Soon after one of Maui's Japanese Buddhist temples, the Lahaina Hongwanji Mission, burned in the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, its resident minister was desperate to go back and ...
Aug. 11—Almost half the hotel rooms on Maui are shut down for at least two weeks because of power outages related to wildfires that destroyed two Lahaina hotels, razed a historic commercial ...
In early August 2023, a series of wildfires broke out in the U.S. state of Hawaii, predominantly on the island of Maui.The wind-driven fires prompted evacuations and caused widespread damage, killing at least 102 people and leaving two people missing in the town of Lahaina on Maui's northwest coast.
The Brick Palace was the first western-style structure built in the Hawaiian Islands for Kamehameha the Great to serve as the first Royal Palace. [1] Lahaina became the seat of government for the Hawaiian Kingdom until 1845. [2] [3] The king commissioned the structure to be built at Keawa'iki point in Lahaina, Maui. [4]
It's estimated the fire displaced 4,500 people.