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...bragging rights now that Katmandu has as many package tours as Atlantic City and darkest Africa is bright with flashbulbs. So just in time comes the spanking-new Hyatt Regency Waikoloa on the lee shore of the Big Island of Hawaii. At $360 million, it is the most expensive resort ever built. But that's not, even nearly...
...What would you do with those lovely rugs after a driving rain? Replace them, replies the managing director, smug as a puffin.) To reach their rooms, guests can board a bullet-nosed monorail tram or take a boat along the canal that runs the mile-long stretch of the resort. Crispy captains in white shorts and knee socks pretend to steer, clanging the ship's bell, but the boat is actually guided by wheels running along a 19-in. groove underwater. "Disneyland changed the way people view entertainment," muses Amy Katoh, who is visiting Hawaii from Tokyo with her husband...
...three towers, 1,241 rooms, seven restaurants, 75,000 sq. ft. of convention space, a 17,500-sq.-ft. health spa, 1,640 transplanted coconut-palm trees at $1,000 apiece and water everywhere else. The design is the work of Christopher Hemmeter, a sort of revolutionary in the resort business. His tastes run toward the liquid: private lagoons full of sociable fish, waterfalls, whirlpools, water slides and vast, curvaceous pools. Distinction lies in myriad details, like the seven bird keepers who ensure that the 27 pink flamingos get enough carotene in their diet so that they don't fade...
...other resorts offer tropical splendors and offbeat birds. The Hyatt hunch is that today's travelers are in desperate search of an Experience, a made-to-order memory, and are willing to pay $265 a night for the average room to $2,500 for a presidential suite in order to find it. From that belief was born their Fantasy Resort, which promises to change the way many superluxe hotels do business. After much campfire brainstorming, the Waikoloa staff came up with a menu of activities, priced them fantastically and still cannot always keep up with demand. Though roughly half...
Perhaps the most popular fantasy of all involves a visit with the resort's most distinguished guests: eight Atlantic bottle-nosed dolphins, in residence under the care of marine-mammal veterinarians Rae Stone and Jay Sweeney. Rather than ricocheting around a concrete pool, the dolphins frolic in a protected saltwater lagoon. "Everything about this place is fake, except for the dolphins," observes a guest wryly, as she wanders by. The Dolphin Quest program offers a model environment for research and study, as well as a unique aquatic encounter for the guests. "These animals can humble anyone," says trainer Christian Harris...