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Let’s face it: Pools matter! In fact, some travelers base their hotel choice on this one amenity. Hawaiʻi Island hotels have pools as varied as the

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Looking out the airplane window as it landed at Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keāhole (KOA) on the Island of Hawaiʻi felt more like being in a rocket ship touching down on Mars, with black lava rock lining the runway and stretching for miles along the island’s coastline.

The resort resurfaced waterslides and added cabanas, hot tubs and landscaping.

It takes a lot to reopen a hotel after a pandemic, and sometimes the cracks show. The Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Big Island has some major things going for it including an amazing physical property with plenty of things to do. But when I was there in March it wasn’t quite ready for prime …