Eco-Hotel
A Sustainable Hotel and Spa
Our fifty-acre Hawaii Island Retreat with its luxury boutique hotel and spa models ways in which we can live both in luxury accommodations and in balance with the earth. Our sustainable features and practices include the following:
- Solar energy cells produce our electricity
- Our future windmill will feed into our energy panel as an additional energy source
- Sparkling garden pools surrounding the lodge, which serve as rainwater catchments from the hotel roof
- Water conservation through low-water toilets, special showers, and conscientious use of water throughout the hotel and spa
- Abundant organic vegetable gardens and tropical fruit orchards that produce much of the food used in our kitchen.
- Regular gardening and cooking classes so that guests may learn simple and effective ways to grow and prepare their own foods.
- An active system of composting that recycles all organic waste back into the soil.
- Safe paper products, free of harmful chemicals, dyes, or perfumes. These are shredded and recycled as mulch on garden paths and banana orchards
- Cross-ventilation and ceiling fans in our boutique lodge and spa buildings In this way we capture our Kohala breezes, eliminating the need for air conditioning. Guest rooms are kept warm when the outside air is cool and cool when temperatures are warm
- Reusable water bottles for guests, which they can refill throughout the day at available filtered water dispensers
- Organic shampoos, conditioner, and lotions in guest bath dispensers
- Our own line of organic spa retail products that use minimal and recyclable packaging. We grow our own kukui trees and use the outstanding medicinal kukui oil in our spa services and treatments.
- Educational information in each guest room to assist everyone in our ongoing efforts to remain both sustainable and self-sufficient. This information covers choices for laundering towels and sheets and outlines various recycling measures.
Green Certifications
We are members of several certifying agencies in eco-tourism including The International Ecotourism Society. http://www.ecotourism.org/site/
We are also in process of obtaining certifications for our kitchen and our garden as well.
