DirkFunk Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Sounds like it would be ripe for purchasing by a larger operator who could finish the renovations. I tend to think that there's too much competition in the area for it to work as anything but low budget. In a way, it being a hot mess is probably the most sustainable way to go about things unless something dramatic changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philrad71 Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 ^ I guess on the plus side, it's still better than Rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrillrider Posted February 28, 2015 Author Share Posted February 28, 2015 ^ I guess on the plus side, it's still better than Rain. Yea...rain was tiny. Again, the maui sands Waterpark was not that bad...just the hotel part was crappy. The park is good for the money. They were charging something like $20...much cheaper than Kalahari. Plus the lines were not nearly as bad as they are at Kalahari. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfc Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 ^The hotel definitely looks stuck in the 1970s or perhaps '80s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron Wolf 90-11 Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 I walked around Maui Sands last year and it was uproariously bad. The whole complex is a frankenstein's monster where an existing hotel was retrofitted into a water park resort. I found pictures online of that huge room with the pool tables being an indoor pool. As of last year, the rooms there were largely under renovation with layouts taped to the windows. A hallway off from that led to all this stacked construction material and chain link fencing. There's tons of essentially abandoned stuff sitting around and tape over signage pointing to things the water park resort never restored after it reopened. Oh, yeah, so it was closed for like 2-3 years and at one point former NFL running back Jamal Lewis was apparently interested in reopening it. There's that too. Personally, I'd pay like $80 to stay there with the water park included. The layout of it is so bad, the amenities so weird and messed up, like...comparing it to the Trop in Vegas is criminal. It is actually far weirder than that. Mind sharing that picture on here or adding a link to it? Was it a website with a bunch of old picture of the resort? If so, please share it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrillrider Posted March 1, 2015 Author Share Posted March 1, 2015 I'm curious to see this as well. It looks as if a pool may have been in this large area in the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Spence Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Is Maui Sands where the old Holiday Inn Holidome used to be? I remember staying there in 2001 on a High School Band Tour, and those Pool tables bring back some memories Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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