ABOUT THE PANELIST
Dan Martin is a Chicago-based consultant, managing principal of Market & Feasibility Advisors. He has approximately 25 years of experience with waterparks and leisure-focused aquatics and has been named to Aquatics International ’s annual Power 25 list.
Owner: Paulson & Co.
Year opened:2002
Size:780 guest rooms/suites
Staff:N/A
The Grand Wailea’s extensive outdoor aquatic features truly live up to the word “grand.” The main pool complex has nine separate pools, including a “baby beach,” seven water slides, waterfalls, caves, white-water rapids, grottos, a whirlpool and sauna, a scuba diving pool (designed specifically for lessons), and a unique water elevator, billed as the first of its kind. For adults only, there’s the more formal Hibiscus Pool, identifiable by the large mosaic hibiscus flower inlaid on its floor.