This hotel is situated in the center of Lahaina, Maui. This has the best weather on Maui and Lahaina is where the King of Maui lived (andhe could live whereever he wanted). The hotel was recently remodelled with new baths, beds, carpet and paint. It cost about 40% of the high end resorts in Kaanapala but was located at the yacht harbor where all the boat trips take off from. Very convenient. Excellent dinners at the restaurant on site, but the lunch (Kalua Pig -a pulled pork sandwich) was pretty tasteless. Try the dinners. The other reviews point out how quiet this hotel is for being downtown Lahaina, but the truth is that there is a sports bar across the street with loud music until late Saturday night. Sunday was Superbowl Sunday and there was a lot of afternoon screaming, but no loud music that night. I image that there is normally loud music every night at this popular club.
Also, there is a security problem at the hotel. I don't want to tip off any bad guys, so I won't say what it is, but ask if they got the security problem fixed when you book.

We never booked a room before landing in Maui for a stay of 19 days. Took a room in Kihea for 3 nites on arrival but on a day trip up the coast we spotted the Pioneer Inn. We've been here 3 nites now...yesterday rebooked for rest of week...tonite ,sitting on the deck facing Front St. we are going to book for rest of oour remaining time on Maui.

I've stayed at the Venetian in Vegas down to motels in the Baja where the bathrooms are a communal hole in the ground...the Pioneer is now my favorite.

Unless you wear spandex or wear sweaters laid loose on your back,you will fall in love with this place...I don't want to leave.

This hotel didn't work out for us. It was clean, well maintained, front desk was helpful and the location is terrific, even though it is not walking distance to a beach.

The problems we had were with the air conditioner and with folks in the next room sleeping out on the lanai.

In most of Hawaii, we often don't need airconditioning where the trade winds are cooling. However, if you've ever been to Lahaina, you realize quickly that it gets very hot. Being located in the heart of the city doesn't make this location cooler. So you will use the window unit. That's would be ok, except that it works by cooling for about 3-5 minutes then clanking off extremely loudly. Kept us awake most of the night. Also, like a reviewer wrote a while back, it has a motion detector feature where it gets very hot in the room while you are asleep (at least it stops clanking), so you wake up sweating, get up and move around, and then the cooling, clanking begins again.

In the room next to ours, they moved a roll-away bed out to the lanai and slept there. We thought maybe the hotel didn't know about it...no, the next morning we sat out on our lanai, the rollaway bed sitting unmade next to our lanai. During the day, the maids made up the bed--outside ready for the next night.

The roll-away thing might have been ok if we'd paid hostel prices, but at $150 we're not expecting bunking outside!

The air conditioner is a deal breaker for us no matter what, because if we can't sleep, there's no point period.

We really wanted to like this hotel, it's got so much going for it.

Dont even think about staying anywhere else. I agree with everything people have said above. My friend and I stayed in a standard $145 room for 2 nights. Lovely well resostored historic inn,carefully preserved with great taste. room is a litlte on the small side, but they had to work within limitations considering that it is over 100 years old. all appliances, the deck, bathroom, cortyear was perfect. free parking around the corner. several very nice beaches and diving near buy. great atmosphere and location. would go back there anytime. we loved it.