Halekulani

What the classifiers highlight

Five acres of beachfront on Waikiki's crowded strip, recently redone in creams and whites with rattan furniture, MICHELIN calls self-sufficient enough to need nothing outside its own two pools and three restaurants. Forbes counts 453 rooms, most with lanais over the Pacific, and singles out La Mer, its Neoclassic French restaurant, as a Five-Star kitchen in its own right.