Maui means easy access, security, year-long oceanic swimming, and 12-months-of-the-year great weather, all five hours from California. Wailea-Makena, this part of Maui, has the best weather on the island, dry, sunny, and gorgeous. And this luxury vacation rental is perhaps the most secluded, private property on the water on all of Maui. 

Malu Kai O Makena, finished in 2003, is located in the middle of Hawaii's only ocean nature preserve, which means there is little development and extraordinary beauty.  As peaceful as a Zen monastery, timelessly beautiful, utterly contemporary, and a personal sanctuary that is in fact an architectural masterpiece, Malu Kai O Makena is a retreat and a fantasy in the loveliness of Maui.

Highlights Include:

• Two extraordinary bedrooms
• Master Suite with bedroom upstairs comprises the entire penthouse level, with a media area, a lounging area, and wrap-around outdoor decks; separate his and hers bathrooms done in Carrera marble from Italy
• Gourmet kitchen offers a gourmet Le Cornieu range made in France, a Sub Zero fridge, a 48-bottle U-Line wine cooler in a separate bar area, icemaker, and granite countertops
• The Great Room-living room, dining room, kitchen-is anchored by a cylindrical salt-water fish tank that rises from floor to ceiling in the center of the house, filled with fish native to Maui's coast
• Private office looking out over the ocean all the way around the house- a brilliant place for the person desiring inspiration amid peace and calm
• Residence sits within 30-feet of the water and is naturally cooled by breezes from the ocean or coming down from the crest of Haleakala Mountain and situated within the Ahihi-Kinau Marine Nature Preserve-swim, snorkel, scuba dive, and kayak directly from your home in waters filled with brilliantly colored reef fish. (This snorkeling bay was one of Jacques Cousteau's five favorite in the world.)
• Absolute privacy, and yet only eight minutes from this property are The Shops at Wailea, the Four Seasons, and the other luxury resorts
• Unique in its authentic Polynesian feeling, a pentagonal Polynesian pole house, four sides of which open completely to the outside, bringing the beauty of Hawaii intimately inside