2019 Kauai Beach Villas

Wyndham Kauai Beach Villas---G-12

 

This is a 2 bedroom oceanfront unit on the 2nd level.  My favorite Wyndham unit of all!  These photos were taken in Sept. 2016 after it was fairly newly renovated---1st time in the 18 years we've owned here!

Fabulous view from this unit!

 

Feb. 7: north and Anini---
Tired as we were, we were up by 7 (11am STL  time).    The weather was beautiful!  Very little wind, partly cloud and highs in the mid 70s.
View from our first room-- F3.

  We were in one  of the newly renovated Kauai Beach Villas condos.  It has been a long time since they have done much to the units.  New floors, new furniture, new bedding and curtains.  Same old cabinets and counters, but I'm happy with what has been done.

 This is a 1 bedroom /2 bath ocean view unit in F building.  

2015-2 KBV F3 (1 bedroom/2 bath OV)

 Newly renovated---at least the furniture, bedding and painting.  Been awhile since we've seen that.

Love the new pictures, too.

view from our lanai

 pool at the adjacent hotel

beach by KBV

hotel from beach

more of the beach

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villas from the beach

2011-Feb. 19: KBV Oceanview, Poipu, Lawai

We were suppose to be able to check into our new unit by 2, so we didn't venture far. Did go to Olympic cafe for another great breakfast. Then waited in our room until they called and told us we could transfer to our new room. They would have moved our stuff for us, but we decided to save them the trouble.  The views from our 3rd floor unit in building G were outstanding!

I never tire of this view!!!

 Weather was still good, so we headed south for a change, even though north was still good. We were beginning to miss the south side. With it getting late by the time we got there, we just went to one beach---Poipu. Again we shared it with a monk seal.

 Always love seeing these guys---Moorish Idols

 4 spot butterfly fish

We did still get a couple hours of snorkeling in. Saw lots of interesting oceanlife, such as this juvenile orange stripe surgeon fish.

 These are adult orange stripe surgeon fish.

Poipu does seem to have the most of these scary fish---needle fish. They like to hang around just under the surface. If you don't look up, it's easy to miss them.

This is the "tombula" between the really shallow area to the right where the life guard chair is and the more open area to the left. When we first started going to Kauai over 10 years ago, the tombula was there. Then it disappeared for several years. Last year it was back. I'm not sure if more sand was brought in or if it's natural, but it's nice having it back. There use to be quite a current running through where the tombula is. Most people only snorkel in the water on the left side of this picture thinking the right has poor snorkeling.  I've actually seen more species and schools of fish on the right side. It's also better for taking pictures since the shallower water makes it easier to get closer to the fish.

 After snorkeling and while waiting for sunset, I took a walk down the beach.  Saw this guy flying by on my way.

 and these guys

Looking back towards Poipu from down the beach.

 We did get a bit of a sunset, although the clouds really did tone it down. I toned it back up with Photoshop.

After sunset, we headed back to the east side, stopping at Kalapaki Joes for dinner---fish and chips for me and rueben for Ken. Dinner was good.

2011-Feb. 12: Wyndham Kauai Beach Villas, Lihue

This was the day we checked in for our first week at Kauai Beach Villas, so we didn't do much but hang out and wait for our room to be ready. We did check out the new pool area. They took down the concrete retaining wall and very nicely renovated the restrooms. Taking down the rataining wall opened up the area, but also lets more wind in. I guess it's nice, but certainly not as nice as the ones at the other Wyndhams. At least the new management at the Aqua hotel next door is allowing KBV guests to use their much nicer pools and jacuzzis again.

We were finally able to check in about 3pm. Then maintenance had to come by and fix a couple things. This was our first time on the ground level at KBV. I was concerned that our ocean view wouldn't be very good from the ground level, but we still had a pretty nice view. It was a 1 bedroom/2bath condo in building G (1 or 2, I forget which one is the 1 bedroom/2 bath and which is the 1 bedroom /1 bath). We were scheduled to be in this room for the whole 2 weeks, but I was able to pull a little Wyndham VIP magic and find a 2 bedroom lagoon view unit for the 2nd week for half the amount of points normally needed because it came available within 60 days of our check in date. So I cancelled the 2nd week in the 1 bedroom/2 bath oceanview unit and hoped for an upgrade. That worked out really well, as they ended up giving us my requested 3rd floor and upgrading us to an oceanview room for our 2nd week and we have enough points left over to vacation another week just about anywhere on the mainland with the points we saved. (Actually ended up using some of the points to send Angie and Josh to St. Thomas for vacation in Sept. and used the rest of the points to trade into Trading Places for 2 weeks in 2 bedroom condos + 2 bonus weeks.  Have one of those weeks booked in a 2 bedroom unit at Maui Hill for May 2012!)  Here is the livingroom/diningroom area of our ground floor 1 bedroom unit. It was nice being able to walk right out our sliding glass doors and almost be on the beach.

While we were waiting for our room, we also made it over to Lihue to the farmer's market. There wasn't much left by the time we got there--no apple bananas, no flowers, just some mango pie which I forced myself to buy and eat. It wasn't the prettiest of days and by the time we got all settled into our new room, it was getting late, so we didn't venture south in search for a sunset that probably wasn't going to happen.  Here's a picture of the Lihue farmers market and the thick cloud cover we had most of the day.

We stuck around Lihue until dinner time, then went to BullShed for dinner---one of our regular haunts since we discovered it a couple of years ago.

 A rather gloomy day, but not as gloomy as it is in St. Louis!

2010-3-1 Kids arrive and off to Poipu:

Today is the day the "kids" fly over from the Big Island.  So we hung around the East side waiting for their arrival.  I killed a little time by wandering around by our resort.

 Came upon someones creation

 The water here may not be swimmable, but it is a pretty beach.  Especially when the sun is shining. 

 Looking towards the building we're in this trip.

 Ken on our Lanai.  We're on the 3rd floor, thus the fantastic views from our room.

 Once the kids arrived, they were ready to do some snorkeling and beach time.  So we headed South.

 After a little time at Lawai, we headed to Poipu.

 heading in

 milletseed butterflyfish

 moorish idol

 christmas wrasse

  a sea cucumber ejecting something.  In fact there was a bunch of them all doing the same thing---mass fertilization of eggs?  I've never happened upon this before.

 a couple ring tail surgeonfish

 We even shared the beach with a monk seal

 the tombula

 shared the beach with a large sea turtle, too

 Eventually we all got hungry.  They wanted to try Puka Dogs, so that's where we went.  They really are an interesting sausage dog---with some interesting relishes.  We enjoyed our meals.

 Then headed back to Lawai for sunset.

 Again it wasn't spectacular, but just being there was great.

Back at the condo, we all settled in and we listened to their exploits on the Big Island.  Sounds like they had a really good time in the B and B they were in by the volcano.  They got to see a very different Hawaii from the island of Kauai.