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Is it just me, or is Maui the noisiest place on the planet?

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We are finishing our second of four weeks on Maui. Our first week was spent at Maui Schooner, which is a very nice resort in a great location. However they were resurfacing the pool deck so the pool was closed the entire week. Every morning at 7:30 am the jackhammers started outside our ground floor unit. After four days the cement truck parked outside our bedroom around the same time and rumbled away, all day. When the pool resurfacing was finished and I prayed for some morning quiet, an arborist came along and spent the day chopping branches from a tree on the property and chipping them all. I chalked it up to bad luck.

Then we moved to the Sands of Kahana, into a lovely unit on the 4th floor with ocean glimpses. Every morning, starting just after 6, a series of garbage and recycling trucks come along and pick up stuff. The sound of glass bottles pouring into a truck bed outside our bedroom window is not exactly my idea of a tropical paradise.

Then the lawnmowers, weed whackers and leaf blowers start up. This morning they are mowing a small patch of lawn under our bedroom window, exactly where they mowed yesterday! It makes no sense!

Our usual routine while on vacation is to have a leisurely morning drinking coffee reading our online newspapers, then heading out around noon to explore the sights. On this trip we are up by 7, out the door by 8:15, and we don't dare come back until after 4 or so.

Oh and did I mention the construction at the resort next door to us? You guessed it, jackhammers rule there too.

We have vacationed a lot on Kauai and the Big Island, and haven't been to Maui since the early '90's. What a disappointment! Is it just me or does Maui have no noise bylaws at all? Just wondering...
 

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Fall is off-season in Hawaii, so a lot of resorts try to do their maintenance work then.

But you have my complete sympathy - we once had a noisy unit on Kauai, and I felt like I hardly slept all week! Miserable!
 
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Yeah, that doesn't sound relaxing, but it's nice to know Maui Schooner is continually cleaning things up. It sounds like a super place to stay.

The trash trucks are loud at SOK, and that is just how it is. The way the hallways are built, absolutely everyone hears the same noise.

When we were at Hono Koa last year, they were trimming the palm trees. I was fascinated and watched from our lanai. Very risky work, but the arborists were well protected.

We cannot hear much from our unit, because we are very close to the ocean, about 60 feet, but the tree trimming was right at our 3rd floor window.
 

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Sorry to hear about the noisy stay.

We are at wkorv and wkorvn and it has been very peaceful/quiet.
 

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To answer the question in the title of this thread: It is just you, or more likely your bad luck on this trip. We spend several weeks every winter at the Maui Ocean Club and we have never encountered much noise at all.
 

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Valley Isle?

Oh and did I mention the construction at the resort next door to us? You guessed it, jackhammers rule there too.

...

Just wondering...Are they finally repairing the fire damage to the Valley Isle and the exercise center?
 

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Is that what happened? Yes repairs are underway, but they don't seem to be working on it every day (thank heaven for small mercies).
 

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So sorry you have so much noise. i thought you would be complaining about the noisy birds. i remember reading a review of a 5 star resort where the guet said the crickets chirping kept him from sleeping. personally I swear there is a gardener who follows us to resorts around the world and starts his leaf blower early every morning. Apparently he is in Maui this week. Seriously what is up with gardeners and their early morning leaf blowing? And why are they so noisy?:shrug:
 

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Well I am hoping that we will have 4 days of relative quiet over Thanksgiving.

I'm afraid we have discovered that we are "done" with Hawaii. We have been coming to various islands for the month of November for over 10 years, and I think my husband was "done" last year. I have joined him in his "doneness" this year. Too hot, too crowded, too expensive as well as too noisy.

PS We had 2 weimaraners while our kids were growing up - what great dogs!
 

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Well I am hoping that we will have 4 days of relative quiet over Thanksgiving.

I'm afraid we have discovered that we are "done" with Hawaii. We have been coming to various islands for the month of November for over 10 years, and I think my husband was "done" last year. I have joined him in his "doneness" this year. Too hot, too crowded, too expensive as well as too noisy.

Too hot? That's a new one.
 

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Well I am hoping that we will have 4 days of relative quiet over Thanksgiving.

I'm afraid we have discovered that we are "done" with Hawaii. We have been coming to various islands for the month of November for over 10 years, and I think my husband was "done" last year. I have joined him in his "doneness" this year. Too hot, too crowded, too expensive as well as too noisy.

PS We had 2 weimaraners while our kids were growing up - what great dogs!
I hope so for you that it will be quiet over Thanksgiving.

Before you leave, drive up to the up-country and you will find peace and quiet. I guarantee you. :)

It is beautiful and even with a little bit of fog one time we went. I have some very nice pictures of that day but can't find them anymore. It is even more beautiful on a clear day and you may as well go up to the crater too, if you haven't been there yet.
 

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We just got a call from Maui Schooner yesterday to let us know they will be
Working on the sidewalks. They are making them ADA compliant. Sounds like
More Jack hammering. We check in next Friday. The next week we go to Valley
Isle. I don't know how much more work they have to do after the fire. It's fine
With me, I can sleep through anything. I'm sure I'll still nap on the lanai.:D

If not we go to Kauai the week after. We'll find quiet somewhere.
 

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Too hot? That's a new one.
Kihei is warmer and less rainy than on Ka'anapali beach and north of Black rock is even cooler and windier so the ocean is rougher too. We noticed it last year when we moved three times during four weeks.

Kihei is great during the rainy season because they have less rain.
 

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The ones that really get under my skin are the MMM's.

MMM=Maui Moped Maniacs, Little buzzy engines sound like a bumble bee on Steroids.

And of course 99.4% of them drive like they don't care if they live or die or take someone with them.

Last trip to Kihei one of them hit a pedestrian in a walkway. Don't know how seriously the ped was injured but Bubba, one of the peds friends, wrapped the moped around a light post. :cheer: Fortunately Bubba didn't wrap the moped rider around the post.

Sterling
 

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Garbage and Delivery Trucks at the Hilton Hawaiian Village

We are finishing our second of four weeks on Maui. Our first week was spent at Maui Schooner, which is a very nice resort in a great location. However they were resurfacing the pool deck so the pool was closed the entire week. Every morning at 7:30 am the jackhammers started outside our ground floor unit. After four days the cement truck parked outside our bedroom around the same time and rumbled away, all day. When the pool resurfacing was finished and I prayed for some morning quiet, an arborist came along and spent the day chopping branches from a tree on the property and chipping them all. I chalked it up to bad luck.

Then we moved to the Sands of Kahana, into a lovely unit on the 4th floor with ocean glimpses. Every morning, starting just after 6, a series of garbage and recycling trucks come along and pick up stuff. The sound of glass bottles pouring into a truck bed outside our bedroom window is not exactly my idea of a tropical paradise.

Then the lawnmowers, weed whackers and leaf blowers start up. This morning they are mowing a small patch of lawn under our bedroom window, exactly where they mowed yesterday! It makes no sense!

Our usual routine while on vacation is to have a leisurely morning drinking coffee reading our online newspapers, then heading out around noon to explore the sights. On this trip we are up by 7, out the door by 8:15, and we don't dare come back until after 4 or so.

Oh and did I mention the construction at the resort next door to us? You guessed it, jackhammers rule there too.

We have vacationed a lot on Kauai and the Big Island, and haven't been to Maui since the early '90's. What a disappointment! Is it just me or does Maui have no noise bylaws at all? Just wondering...

We sleep with our windows open when we are at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in the winter and the garbage and delivery trucks that service the Ilikai which is right next door can be heard every early morning. We usually wake up early around 6 AM so that it is not that bad waking up to that sound. Walking along the Ocean later in the morning in January in shorts and tank tops or on the way home along the Moonlit Ocean that night turns the sound in the morning into music for us. If this happened where we live in Selden, NY we would be on the phone to the Police or Noise Control Office immediately.
 

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Two years ago at the worldmark in Kihei we were woken up or disturbed (if we were already up) by a car alarm going off outside of our door every morning. The last day we let the kids sleep in while just hubby and I went on a snorkeling trip. When we got back we asked the kids and they said yes the car alarm had gone off again. The family in the building beside us let their children play with the vehicle fob. One day my husband went out and just yelled every ******* day!:ignore:

So I guess I have to agree it is a noisy place.

Joan
 

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92 degrees today in Kahana - I guess that's my Canadian sensibilities labelling "hot".

Iconnections, thanks for the tip about upcountry. We definitely plan to go to Haleakala and Hana. Two good things to do that will keep us away from the resort during the day...
 
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It was 8 above (F) here this morning, but quiet. Wanna trade? :)

Jim
 

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We just got a call from Maui Schooner yesterday to let us know they will be
Working on the sidewalks. They are making them ADA compliant. Sounds like
More Jack hammering. We check in next Friday. The next week we go to Valley
Isle. I don't know how much more work they have to do after the fire. It's fine
With me, I can sleep through anything. I'm sure I'll still nap on the lanai.:D

If not we go to Kauai the week after. We'll find quiet somewhere.

Alii Kai Resort at Princeville is definitely quiet. So quiet it wakes the wife. She's the type that falls asleep with TV on and when I turn it off she wakes up.

Sterling
 

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LOUD! But in a good way...

After all my b*tching and moaning about noise on Maui we went to hear Los Lobos at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center in the Castle Theater. They were great, and the venue was terrific. I can recommend it highly.
 

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More on tree trimming""""

We were on Maui about 3 or 4 years ago and stopped at one of the county parks where they were trimming the palms. Got to talking to a local and asked him about the trimmers - Oh, No, he said, they are not natives. That work is being done by Samoans (sp?). Too hard of work for the natives. He said that the day before one of the workers was whacking away with his machete and cut his safety harness in two and fell to his death. He said that they now use chain harnesses.

Jim
 

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Back at Maui Schooner for our last week on the Noisy Isle. This morning they are loading torn up pieces of sidewalk onto a truck (ka-THUNK! ka-THUNK!) with a backhoe that only goes in reverse (beep beep beep beep...) right outside our bedroom. Sigh...
 

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Eal

We were on the road to Hana so we didn't hear anything at
the Schooner today.:D We're here until Friday, then we go to
Valley Isle. We're in room A404. Never met a TUGGER in person yet.:D
 
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