Kealakekua Hale Home Away From Home Vacation Home

There is a large, protected inlet bisecting the Kona Coast of the big island of Hawaii, West of Mauna Loa, called Kealakekua Bay. Home of the ancient alii (royalty), Spinner dolphins, turtles and countless species of tropical fish, the crystalline waters of this bay are also known to the Kanaka Mauoli (people of the land) as Kapu Kapu (very sacred). This was also the spot where Captain James Cook, the first European to reach the island of Hawaii, landed in January of 1779.

Here you will find Kealakekua Hale, a beautiful and spacious vacation home standing on the water’s edge, not the little grass shack that Johnny Noble made famous throughout the world in his 1930s song “I wanna go back to my little grass shack in Kealakekua Hawaii.” This five-bedroom home still retains much of the same Aloha feeling with all the large picture windows open to the evening air, you can still hear Hawaiian guitar players in the neighborhood. This hale (Hawaiian for house) is the perfect destination for those who want to know Hawaii as the Kamaina (residents) do, and want to be as far away from the packaged and caricatured Hawaii of Waikiki as possible.

Kealakekua Hale has five bedrooms, sleeps up to 10, and it has become a favorite gathering spot for friends and family members scattered by work and marriage. Available by reservation only, few places in the world provide a more intimate and comfortable place to call home for a week or more.