Sweet Suite
Waimea has always been known as one of the Big Island’s most bucolic settings. Home of Parker Ranch (at one time the world’s largest privately owned cattle ranch), the area’s rolling hills, expansive grasslands and occasionally foggy evenings seem a world apart from the dry coastal lava fields that are less than a half-hour’s drive to the north.

The Waimea Suite itself is a quiet, ground-floor apartment in a large, two-story, 40-year-old Waimea country home on the southern slope of the Kohala Mountains. From old Hawaii, there’s an all-koa living room with antique furniture, turn-of-the-century Island art, retro lamps and a Hawaiiana library. From new Hawaii, a king- and two twin-sized beds, a cable TV/VCR, telephone and radio-CD-tape player, as well as a fully furnished kitchen. For information, call  (808) 937-2833.