Maui Kids Clubs

Camp Hyatt at the Hyatt Regency Maui: closed. Keiki Lani at the Fairmont Kea Lani: closed since Covid, no plans to reopen. Westin Nanea’s club: uncertain since at least mid-2023. The Andaz Maui at Wailea: no drop-off program at all, despite what older sources suggest.

Four programs families are still counting on - still appearing in “best family resorts Maui” roundups - that don’t exist anymore. Resort websites were slow to remove the mentions. TripAdvisor has dozens of threads where parents called ahead and were told programs were “temporarily closed,” sometimes years after the actual decision.

The surviving clubs on Maui are genuinely good. But booking the wrong resort on a misread review from 2018 is one of the more expensive planning failures in family travel, and Maui gives you more ways to make it than most destinations.

Which clubs are actually operating

The confirmed-open programs as of 2025, based on recent reviews and official property pages:

Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea - Kids for All Seasons. Year-round, daily 9am–5pm, ages 5–12, complimentary, reservation via the Four Seasons app.

Montage Kapalua Bay - Paintbox. Ages 5–12, half-day and full-day sessions, Friday and Saturday kids’ nights out. Separately priced at roughly $25 per child per hour.

Grand Wailea, A Waldorf Astoria Resort - Keiki Club, launched summer 2025. Ages 5–12, morning (9:30am–12:30pm) and afternoon (1pm–4pm) sessions. Operated by itavi, a professional childcare service. Pricing not published - contact the resort directly.

Westin Ka’anapali Ocean Resort Villas - Kids club confirmed operational, ages 5–12. Activities include ukulele, hula, lei making, arts and crafts. Call ahead for current hours and pricing.

Napili Kai Beach Resort - Seasonal Keiki Club. Free with resort stay, ages 6–10, two-hour daily sessions Monday through Saturday. Runs mid-June to late August, Thanksgiving week, and Christmas through New Year’s.

Closed or uncertain: Hyatt Regency Maui (confirmed no club as of September 2025), Fairmont Kea Lani (closed since Covid, no plans to reopen), Westin Nanea (a July 2023 review says closed; status remains unclear), Andaz Maui at Wailea (Hub 808 is not drop-off childcare - a February 2025 reviewer: “I would not choose the Andaz with young kids ever”).

Four Seasons: the only free full-day option

Kids for All Seasons is the only year-round complimentary program on the island. No resort fee. No minimum drop-off time - leave kids for two hours or eight depending on your day.

A counselor nicknamed “Lizard” (Miss Liz) shows up by name in multiple independent reviews - the kind of detail that signals real engagement rather than rote childcare. Daily activities: lei making, hula lessons, Hawaiian language, swimming with counselors, gecko hunts, ukulele, gaga ball, climbing wall. Mornings run more structured; one reviewer flagged afternoon movie time as a lull. Minority view in an otherwise strong body of reviews, but worth knowing if you have a kid who needs to keep moving.

For families with kids 9 and up, the Four Seasons also runs Camp Manitou - a seasonal add-on at $225 per child per day, run in partnership with a Maine summer camp founded in 1947. Activities go off-property: Road to Hana, Ho’okipa Beach Park, surfing, lava tube exploration, stargazing with a Hawaiian navigator. Runs during school breaks and summer; confirm dates when booking.

No Maui resort splits the 5–12 age bracket internally - a 12-year-old and a 5-year-old are in the same room. Camp Manitou is the only program on the island that solves this for older kids.

If you’re trying to decide between Four Seasons and one of the West Maui properties - factoring in room rates, the kids club difference, and which base makes sense for the excursions you want - Mira can help you work through the tradeoffs before you commit to a resort.

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Grand Wailea: the pool is the actual product

The Keiki Club launched summer 2025, and Grand Wailea’s decision to run it through itavi - a professional childcare company - rather than hire resort counselors internally may be why it worked when others didn’t. Staffing shortages are the documented reason most Maui clubs collapsed; outsourcing sidesteps the problem.

The honest pitch isn’t the kids club in isolation - it’s the kids club adjacent to Hawaii’s most celebrated resort pool complex. Lazy river, multiple waterslides, rope swing, waterfall, water elevator. For families where pool days rank alongside Molokini snorkel in the trip highlights, this combination is hard to beat.

The Keiki Club closes at 4pm. For evening coverage, itavi provides in-room care at the same property at an extra cost. The program is new - shorter track record than Four Seasons. If you need certainty, Four Seasons has more years of consistent delivery behind it.

Montage Paintbox: when the kid is the whole point

Most kids clubs are what one TripAdvisor reviewer specifically called “typical childcare with a few activities.” Paintbox at Montage Kapalua Bay is the exception worth naming.

Sessions leave the club room. Kids walk the Kapalua Coastal Trail, visit tide pools, feed the koi in the pond at the resort entrance, then come back for arts and crafts. The Montage Merits system awards collectible pins for completing activities - surfing, whale spotting, snorkeling - which turns the club into a progressive challenge rather than a holding pen. Reviewers describe kids asking to go back to complete the set.

A reviewer posting as SDSommers put it plainly: “Not the typical childcare with a few activities. Our girls couldn’t stop talking about it.” Another family’s kids “always welcomed and asked for more days.”

The tradeoffs: cost adds up at roughly $25 per child per hour, Kapalua Bay is 30–40 minutes from Wailea so it’s a destination choice not an add-on, and the outdoor walks suit 7–10-year-olds better than younger 5-year-olds. Friday and Saturday kids’ nights out are genuinely rare on Maui - Camp Hyatt’s old 5pm–10pm evening session left a gap when it closed, and Paintbox is the only program that comes close to filling it.

The age-5 floor is not negotiable

Every Maui resort kids club requires children to be at least 5 years old. This isn’t a resort preference - it’s Hawaii state childcare licensing law. The Four Seasons, Grand Wailea, Montage, and Westin all enforce it. Parents who’ve called hoping for an exception for a just-turned-4-year-old have been told no, consistently.

Families with kids under 5 need a different plan. Three private services are consistently recommended in Maui parent forums: The Nanny Connection Maui (the most-cited option), Happy Kids Maui (bonded, insured, CPR-certified), and Maui Keiki Nanny (specializes in resort stays, particularly Four Seasons and Grand Wailea). Book well in advance - these services fill up during summer and holidays the same way kids clubs do.

The upside of a private nanny is flexibility that no kids club provides: you can take a helicopter tour, do the full Road to Hana, or a morning snorkel without planning around club hours or scrambling back by 5pm.

If your youngest is under 5 and you’re not sure how to build the trip around private care alongside a kids club for older siblings, Mira can help you figure out what that actually looks like in practice - and which properties make it easiest.

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Before you book: what to confirm and what to bring

Reserve early. Book kids club time when you book your flights - not when you arrive. Spring break and summer fill Four Seasons and Montage. Grand Wailea requires 24-hour cancellation notice, which implies advance booking.

Sunscreen is your responsibility. Clubs may not supply it. Maui County bans oxybenzone and octinoxate with fines up to $1,000 - you need mineral sunscreen (zinc oxide or titanium dioxide). Pack from home; resort shops stock it at premium prices. Rash guards are more practical for full days in the water anyway.

Evening coverage is limited. Montage offers kids’ nights out Friday and Saturday. Grand Wailea can arrange in-room itavi care after hours. Every other program ends by 5pm. Budget for private in-room babysitting if you need a dinner window beyond those two nights.

Check what you’re reading. Filter reviews by date. Dozens of glowing write-ups for Camp Hyatt, Keiki Lani, and Camp Grande predate 2020. A review from 2019 describes a program that no longer exists.