Marriott's Maui Ocean Club - Molokai, Maui & Lanai Towers

The Marriott Ocean Club is a medium sized hotel in the larger Ka'anapali resort area (also includes Hyatt, Westin, Ka'anapali Golf Course, etc). The hotel used to be primarily a timeshare facility so some of the rooms have kitchens. Ours had a separate living room with fridge and kitchen sink (no stove but there are shared stove facilities across the hallway). The room was great and plenty big for the 3 of us. The main pool is awesome with lots of area and well landscaped so it's not just a big open circle. There are also 2 smaller pools on either side of the hotel. The biggest problem with the Marriott is dining choices. There's one cafe near the pool that has lunch and rotating dinner selections and the pool bars will serve food from that cafe. There's another restaurant onsite but it's not affiliated with the Marriott and you can't charge anything to your room there. My advice is to get a car so you can eat outside the hotel. The selection at the cafe is very small outside of the one dinner special they offer each day. You can walk up the beach to a small mall (Whalers Village) that has some other choices.

I knew there was going to be updates being made to the hotel, but didn't expect the main pool to be closed and for construction in our building to be going on from 6:00 a.m. until after 8:00 p.m. some evenings. If I wasn't on a prepaid visit I would have cancelled on check in and moved to another property. Unfortunately I spent a lot of money to stay in a construction zone with out of commission amenities. I would have expected to pay a 1/4 of what I paid under these circumstances. Very disappointed overall.

They put me in a handicap room without notifying me first, which I believe is something that should be mentioned to the guest before giving them the room. The staff was friendly about hearing my gripe, I really wanted a bathtub on my vacation!!! I wasn't compensated nor was I moved to another room- they were full and I didn't have time during my stay to switch rooms anyway......oh well. Maui was beautiful!!

You can't beat the location but the hotel had issues. The rooms were extremely dated and smelled like mildew. The hotel management was also completely inflexible about the 10 am checkout time. I had to give a talk the morning of checkout and be at the conference by 6:30 am. I asked for special consideration and the hotel management said no. Epic fail, would never have happened at a Starwood hotel. I will not be coming back, and will be telling my friends not to stay at the Marriott.

This is a nice resort with good amenities including grills for barbecuing. However, the main pool was closed for renovations during our entire visit of 10 days. This was such a let down for us!

Rooms are brand new, updated condos. Lovely rooms. Sucks that we went during construction - noise was annoying and it sucked that the pool was under construction as well. We moved down the road to the Westin and boy what a huge difference. The Westin felt like paradise and the Marriott more like a retirement village. Maybe when renovations are complete, the experience will match. Beach walk is nice - connects to other properties and shopping. Food was delicious. Enjoyed the activity center.

Friendly and welcoming staff! Concierge, Lori was informative and helpful. Bell staff was accommodating with checking luggage very early and having easy access to items on checkout day due to late flight. The property offers two Hospitality Rooms for travelers who need to check out, but want to enjoy the property with late departure. I recommend using the newest Hospitality Room as it is spacious, comfortable and nicely decorated. The only downside was there was not an option for late checkout.

The main pool was closed for repairs but not disclosed when we booked room. Nap in afternoon impossible due to construction in room above us. Staff totally didn't care.

Should have been warned before booking that the main pool is all torn up. The Lanai tower we stayed in was a dated room- just the bathroom was updated.

Nice but dated facility. We were disappointed that the main pool was closed and under construction and there was no notification of that in hotel.com. Staff was amazing and very friendly. A couple of good local restaurants in the neighborhood. The facility is a time share but no pressure sales. We would go back.