The Best Hotels in Lanai City, by the Record
The best hotels in Lanai City, by the professional record: Forbes Travel Guide, Michelin Guide, and 50 Best have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Four Seasons Resort Lana'i comes out on top.
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Lanai has no traffic lights, most of its roads are unpaved, and the Four Seasons sits on a bluff above one of the few beaches in Hawaii inside a marine reserve. It's a full-scale luxury resort, Forbes Five Star and Michelin Key, with a Jack Nicklaus golf course, a spa, koi ponds, and enough pool area to get genuinely lost. Spinner dolphins pass offshore while guests book Jeep excursions or do nothing whatsoever, which is also a perfectly defensible plan.
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star
- Michelin Guide 1 Key
- 50 Best 2025 · Most Admired Hotel Group Award
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The restaurant is a Nobu partnership and the pool is lined with lava rock, but Sensei Lanai exists firmly in the wellness-resort category, not the beach-vacation one. Set upcountry on a quiet island, it trades ocean views for gardens, guided fitness, nutrition consultations, and the kind of sleep you forgot you could have. The rooms run spare in their design and lavish in everything else, which is more or less the whole philosophy.
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star
- Michelin Guide Selected Hotels
- 50 Best 2025 · Most Admired Hotel Group Award