Very easy to work with and beautiful venue
We recently had our wedding in the Maile garden and our reception in the Laulima rooms. We were a little hesitant to use a DOD hotel for our wedding, but they offered 5 star service at a 3 star price and the venue is the prettiest on the island. Their staff is very professional and accommodating. They even went to the store to get soymilk a day before the wedding in a last minute request. We wanted to do a specialty drink that had about 15 ingredients and they were happy to do so and made pitchers of it to make for fast service at the bar. Their wait staff was extremely helpful and fun. We did the Luau buffet and without a doubt it was the best food we had on our entire trip to Oahu and Kona. We are still raving about it and our guests were very impressed and are still talking about how great their food was. They had a server make plates for us and brought us whatever we wanted to so we didn’t have to go up to the buffet. Their rooms are as nice as the Hilton next door, and their grounds are much prettier. We did our photos around the hotel grounds and the backdrops will make for breathtaking photos. They were flexible with checking in and checking out on the day of the wedding. Their barefoot bar has an awesome Mongolian dinner on Friday nights and we had our welcome reception at the barefoot bar. The venue is great, beautiful view, cheap drinks, and fast service. Our guests had an absolute blast and returned to the barefoot bar for an after-party when our reception wrapped up.