Welcome to another installment of our Weekly Website series.
We’re heading to the beach with this week’s website, which looks to be one of the most complete beach guides devoted solely to the island of Maui.
Maui Beach Guide
Maui Beach Guide aims to do one thing, and one thing well, beaches on Maui. We’ve been using their site for our last two trips, and it has come in handy for letting us know what to expect when we visit beaches for the first time.
Because of it’s narrowed focus, the site itself isn’t that large and doesn’t change very often. In that respect, this review isn’t going to seem that exhaustive, but trust us, this site is worth knowing about.
Features
The focus of Maui Beach Guide is to cover all the beaches on Maui, which seems like a large feat to undertake. Although their home page has a listing of close to 40 beaches, not all of them have information. For the bigger known beaches, however, you’ll find quite a bit of info.
What can you expect to find when looking up a beach on the Maui Beach Guide? Well, let’s take a look. The page for Kahekili Beach Park, the sister beach to Ka’anapali Beach, features:
- An overview about the beach itself,
- Other names that this beach is often referred to (which happens more than you’d think),
- Hours of Operation,
- Weather forecasts (albeit from 2 years ago),
- Sunrise/sunset times (again, a little outdated),
- Webcams, if available,
- Directions and a map on where to go,
- Facility information,
- and details on nearby hotels, etc.
That’s a lot of good information, even if some of the weather and sunset times are updated. Things like weather and sunset times you can find elsewhere, so those don’t bother us that much.
I think it’s a really great idea, and as mentioned previously, has helped us plan some of our beach hopping in the past. The webcams and photos have to be our favorites, and seeing the views online (with links to the main sites) are always fun to view. From that perspective, Maui Beach Guide seems to have really done their homework.
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