The bartender, Richard, is THE BEST!!! Â Just the friendliest guy you will ever meet, service with a smile every time, very prompt...and you tell him your name once and he'll remember it next time you come around. Â Richard, you rock and we look forward to coming back soon! Â Thanks for your excellent service!
Review Source:Five stars mostly cause if you're staying at Grand Wailea, or paying $95 per day for a day pass -- might as well experience all they have to offer, right? Â And play out your role-playing professional athlete & playboy fantasy in your head for a few minutes... Yes, keep it in your head... ;)
I think my boyfriend was more excited about the "grotto bar" than I was. Â Every moment he kept saying, "Let's go to the Grotto Bar!" like a kid about to go to a candy store. Â I jokingly asked him if he was a nba star and he said "Yes, and you're my playboy bunny." No need to worry, folks. Â Just friendly banter, we were beyond tame at the Grotto Bar :)
The nicest swim-up bar I've ever experienced. Â The bar is in a cave with waterfalls. Â A few crevices where you can sit down on enjoy that premium drink. Â I brought my pineapple container that I bought early in the week for $22 to get $15 refills (at double the volume). Â There's also access to a jacuzzi. Â There's a bridge walkway behind the grotto so you don't have to pass through the waterfall pouring over your head. Â But the jacuzzi was always filled with children... So your best bet for a jacuzzi is the Hibicus Adult-only pool.
Again, I wouldn't come to Grand Wailea for the Grotto Bar itself but may as well make a pit stop if you paid for the Grand Wailea experience.
Dude, it's a bar in a pool under a waterfall. Â Pretty snazzy. Â But plan to pay $14 for drinks, if not more. Â They're interesting drinks, though, including blended cocktails.
It's fun, but crowded, with kind of loud music. Â It's a little chlorinated. Â You have to wade your butt over. Â But come on, it's a tiny bar. Â In a pool! Â Under a waterfall! Â This is Kodak moment stuff. Â Bring a waterproof camera. Â Order a drink. Â Relax under the sun.
My only regret is that we bought the plastic $22 pineapple mug (bigger refills) thinking we would go back on our last day, but it rained, so it was kind of a wash. Â
I'll always remember the Grotto, and booping around in a large maze of swimming pools with a giant mixed drink.
I've vacationed at several resorts in the Hawaiian Islands by far the funnest bar is the the swim up Groto Bar at Grand Wailea. Located in a cave with a backside waterfall the Groto Bar is the party hot spot located in the GW resort.. If you don't loud music, loud fun people and and TV's than avoid this bar. When ordering your first drink make sure to purchase it in the GW plastic pineapple. So remember quiet Hawaiian holiday Groto Bar bad-Want to party and drink with some crazy fun people Groto Bar Good.
Review Source:I'm a Hilton Honors  member and my wife and I have been going to the Grand Wailea several times a year for many years and it has always been a favorite. Points or cash, the treatment has always been good since Hilton has taken over the management of the property. . .
BUT, Â The recent installation of a TV set in the Swim Up Bar is not only Cheesy, but has attracted a loud , drunken, unruly bunch viewing sporting events. I was accosted by this drunken guy just because of where I live. Â Wanted to get into it. Really felt I was in danger. Bartender kept on pouring them though they were clearly Blasted. Â Many kids playing in the pool nearby. Â Bartender should have cut them off. Period. No Aloha going on here.
If Hilton and the Waldorf Astoria want a sports-bar at the Grand Wailea, set it up in the old empty night club. That way the bartender at the grotto bar doesn't have to be a security guard and the pool will be a fun and safe place to come to again. Â Get rid of the TV Set (REALLY??!!- Come to Hawaii to watch TV?- could have stayed home -it would have been A Lot cheaper.)
I'll be spending my annual 3 grand at the 4 Seasons next door from now on. Yuck. Alo-HA 0 Stars if it would let me for allowing guests to be harrassed by drunken pigs..
I have made it to one or two swim up bars in my life, this one definitely hits the top of the list. It is located in a cave inside the amazing pools at the GW (I reviewed the hotel separately). There is a swim up bar with some bar stools as well as a few additional tables inside the water around the cave. The bartender was super fun and friendly. He sold us on the Pineapple, it is a plastic Pineapple that can later be used as a coin container (or take up space in your suitcase then later sit in your closet?). You pay a few bucks extra for it the first time but as long as you keep it with you get a larger drink each time you use it. It is almost like paying for one drink and getting a double. So if you are going to have a few drinks it's a good way to go.
You can order food here as well and we didn't do this but it looked like your typical pool food, burgers, nachos etc.
Well, first, let me say we didn't really stay at the Grand Wailea but we really really wanted to visit the Grotto Bar. With that said, I don't know if we were allowed in, but the bartender was friendly and never questioned it. The GW might want to clarify if non GW stayers could go in.
To get there, we had to trek through the resort grounds and dip into their smaller pools. Once there, swim up into the grotto and you'll see a bar with maybe about 6 seats at the bar, and 2 smaller cozy corners.
This place is awesome. It's cool, has a lil breeze, and has waterfalls in the corners providing a grotto experience. The bartender is friendly and they take cash!
I am reviewing this because my next door neighbor told me she went because I spoke so glowingly of Maui, the GW pool and Hawaii in general. Yes I stayed at the GW. See review. <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/grand-wailea-wailea">http://www.yelp.com/biz/…</a>
I loved the hotel and pool. I loved that the pool and bar area was clean and not full of drunken vomit like the swim up bars in the Caribbean are. As a part of your vacation it is a nice option.
Being from NYC which is half way around the globe , when I travel to Hawaii I want to experience the culture, food and people. I don't want to just sit at the pool like a drunken fool! You can't experience Hawaii that way! If that is what you want, go to the Caribbean!
Wow! Let me say it again...Wow.
This bar is a swim up bar (you can't access it any other way) located off the main lagoon pool at the Grand Wailea Resort. Every day I was at the hotel, I visited this bar and got my drink on. Cool bartenders and lots of (sorry honey) bikini's in the grotto.
Loud music, stools in the water and even tables to sit at keep you waist high in the pool. They even have foot warmers with warm water pumping out located at the bar, its really awesome. Did I mention all the bikini's? Sorry ladies....I'm a pig. And yes, there were "dudes there too". After all, who goes to the Grand Wailea alone? This is not the Hard Rock Hotel in Vegas but the bar area is 21 and over and very lively at times.
Absolute fun place to get a drink and swim away with it. Yes, you can drink in the pool and even take it down the raging slide, where I lost a couple myself. LOL
Enjoy!
If you could get off Pirates of the Carribean halfway through and have a mixed drink, the bar would probably look something like this. Located under a waterfall in one of the many pools of the Grand Wailea, this swim-up bar is the perfect place to get wasted without the added complication of having to towel off first. Or after. Or ever.
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