THE $143 DEAL

By Chris Erskine

Aug. 9, 2009 12 AM PT

The Kaanapali Beach Hotel on Maui is offering a fall special that cuts room rates to $143 per night, a 28% savings. Throw in its free nightly hula show and you’ve got yourself a deal.

The deal: The offer runs from Aug. 21 to Dec. 22. Guests will have access to the hotel’s free welcome breakfast their first day, as well as free daily cultural classes, including hula-dancing lessons, lei and ti leaf skirt-making classes, and lau (leaf) printing. Hiking, kayaking, horseback riding and golf are also available. The area’s whale-watching season runs from December to May. The low-rise Kaanapali Beach Hotel has 432 guest rooms on 11 acres laced with tropical gardens. Amenities include two restaurants and a spa. The hotel prides itself on being a traditionally Hawaiian hotel, with Hawaiian quilt designs and tropical furnishings.

Contact: (800) 262-8450, www.kbhmaui.com

-- Chris Erskine

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Chris Erskine

Chris Erskine is a nationally known humor columnist and editor who retired from the Los Angeles Times in 2020. Previously he wrote for the Sports, Travel and Saturday sections and edited with the paper’s features staff. As an editor, he has been a part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams at The Times (for his graphics work on the Northridge quake and the North Hollywood bank robbery). He is best known to readers for his weekly humor pieces on life in suburban Los Angeles. His latest book, “Daditude,” released in 2018, is a collection of his favorite Times columns on fatherhood. He has written two other books, “Man of the House” and “Surviving Suburbia,” which reached the Los Angeles Times bestseller list. The Chicago native has also worked for papers in New Orleans and Miami.

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