Field, a Rosewood ambassador who works for the hotel’s development company, built the canoe himself, attaching a massive, vibrantly red sail and two white woven “trampolines” (his words, I wouldn’t bounce on them) to the 30-foot-long vessel. My favorite moments at Kona Village, however, were spent on Mike Field’s sailing canoe, Hina’ea. The updated cocktail may seem downright chaste by comparison, but it was still enough to send me back to my hale for a delicious nap on the shaded sectional of my 215-square-foot deck. It’s now served by Conrad’s successor, Marlin Hunter - who, true story, was named for the giant marlin his father caught on this very beach. I took a Pokemon gotta-catch-’em-all approach.) Shipwreck Bar’s mai tai is named for the resort’s OG bartender, Conrad, and rumor has it, the nearly lethal original recipe had seven-and-a-half ounces of booze. (Important note: every bar and dining venue makes a different mai tai. Then, we whiled away our afternoon swimming the length of the 82-foot pool and lazing in our shaded cabana with octopus tostadas and a round of Conrad’s Mai Tais. 3 p.m., when a cart brimming with bright-green drinking coconuts comes around. My husband and I posted up here for coconut o’clock, a.k.a. (Yes, the New Moon survived the tsunami - the boat’s the “only thing stronger than the drinks,” one resort friend told me.) The adjacent pool now has a sumptuous black-stone hot tub that reflects the palm trees overhead. Rosewood brought back Shipwreck Bar, too. When they wanted privacy, they’d put a coconut outside the door. Guests were told to leave their cell phones in the rooms, and there were no TVs. It was Steve Jobs' favorite place to vacation - though, ironically, the place embraced an off-the-grid philosophy. ![]() Supposedly, The Doors’ Jim Morrison once set a record by drinking 21 mai tais at Shipwreck Bar. The resort developed a star-studded cult following. When they were fixing up the resort, they anchored New Moon in Kahuwai Bay, where it took on water and sank - so they hauled the vessel out of the Pacific, gave it a paint job, and served mai tais from the deck. ![]() The main bar was a beached sailboat called New Moon, which belonged to Kona Village’s founders, Johnno and Helen Jackson. It opened in 1966, and because the closest public road was two miles away, guests took a puddle-jumper plane to the resort, piloted by whoever was around – a concierge, a cook, occasionally someone licensed to fly. On Hawaii’s Big Island, there was once a resort called Kona Village.
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