Turtle Bay Resort is worth every penny. My husband and I stayed there for our honeymoon and it was relaxing and beautiful. Every room has an ocean view, and our particular room looked out over the beach. The Resort includes two golf courses (which my husband enjoyed) and a day spa (which I would highly recommend). The service is efficient and friendly. If I had one complaint, it was the food. Our meals were adequate, but not excellent (despite a resort price tag). There are places in the north shore towns that are not bad, but you need a car to reach them. The drinks, however, are excellent. Also, the snorkeling off the hotel's private beach is superb. A wonderful getaway.

Spent 4 nights early July 08 in an oceanfront deluxe room. For the rates that you pay, this hotel is overated. Apparently, the hotel has had $35m in renovations but you'd never know it!! The rooms in the hotel are pretty ordinary, particularly given that the room cost more than what I paid for Sheraton Maui which was LOVELY. The rooms have this hideous green colour interior, the carpet is a very yucky brown and the bed made me feel like I was staying in a motel. The bathroom has a pretty silly layout with essentially two rooms (one which has a sink, fridge and robes and the other is the actual bathroom with another sink, toilet and shower). Hideous light green tiles around the bath. Made me feel like I was back in the 80s. If they had done the soft renovations properly, they would have opened up these 2 rooms to make one big bathroom and changed the tiles. On the plus side, the bedroom is quite big and the views were great (if you disregard the horrible brown roof tops visible from the restaurants etc below - who on earth thought the beautiful ocean views need this brown roof top in the picture???? Loved the views from the poolside where big waves sailed past and we could watch people surf past us. Its on a really lovely spot, its just that the resort is still dated and after staying at the Westin Moana Surfrider and Sheraton Maui, it was a huge disappointment. Other positives are that the service was pretty good and the Ola restaurant was really nice, we had a table right on the sand. Overall, I think 4 nights was way too long. 2 nights maximum (unless you surf) is what I think was needed if you want to stay up this way. As its the only resort up that way, its a good base to explore everything and again the views from the pool and walking around the hotel are pretty amazing. But DONT expect much from the rooms and the lobby.

I pre-paid for our two nights at Turtle Bay. When I received my bill I had 2 charges of $20 as what they call a "resort fee". They say it covers parking, internet access, and tennis. We didn't use these. We had one car between two couples but both of us were charged the $40. I plan on disputing the charge with my credit card company. The restaurant food in the resort was also highly overpriced. The OLA restaurant was good and reasonable for a resort but it is not run by Turtle Bay. The room and view were good but overpriced and we paid less than $210 per night. Some were paying $450 per night and higher. Jim Kentucky

This is the perfect resort except for the beds. Even my children had complaints about how uncomfortable the beds are. The grounds are beautiful and the resort is nice. This was a relaxing paradise and would have been the best place I had ever stayed in if the beds were comfortable. The pool is lush and nice. there is a public beach at the resort but it felt more like a private beach. It was empty most days. We even saw a celebrity staying at the resort while we were there. He and his family were in the private condo houses at the resort, I am sure they had better beds. The staff at the resort were nice and helpful. This was a great place to stay away from the hustle and bustle in Waikiki beach. We loved it here. If you keep your doors open at night you can hear the waves. The view from our balcony was the best view we have ever had. Great hotel, just replace the beds.

We had just one night here. Lovely location, all rooms have balconies w/ ocean views. Nice dinner at '21' - would have preferred to try Ola's but it wasn't listed in the hotel's directory so we thought it was gone! Perhaps this is a good place if you surf or golf, but I was surprised at how quiet it all was. The lobby is big and empty, the rooms are big and empty. The directory lists the resort attractions as if they were sites at some other location - nothing seems to be going on save for the pool (rather plain) and beach (which is, as all HI beaches, public) so I'm not sure why anyone would stay - other than to get away from Wakaki if Oahu is the only island you are visiting. We weren't there on a weekend - when you can spend more money and attend a luau - but still . . . offer something. Oh - and you'll pay for everyTHING - including 3.50 for the bottle of water in your room!