Aston Maui Lu

im only giving 2 stars for the hotel itself. the grounds and the distance from the beach was nice! I booked our vacation package through expedia and was shocked to find how cheap a weekend to maui was. this of course was one of the cheaper hotels. I was too excited about the price of our trip (airfare, car and hotel) to even think about checking Unilocal reviews before I clicked «confirm.» lol. after I booked it is when I thought «oh I should’ve checked Unilocal.» if I had read the reviews I prob would’ve booked somewhere else and with the packages you cant cancel and get a refund. thinking about how much we would actually be in the room I quickly disregarded my previous thoughts about staying here. our room wasn’t terrible, just old. didn’t find bugs in the room just little tiny bugs in the bathroom. not a terribly big deal.
we were mostly out and about so for sleeping it was fine. it was nice to be able to walk across the street to the beach. and we found a litter of baby cats on the property!!! although they ran away when I tried to go near them. lol.

Pro’s
— They are on the cheaper side ($ 90 for us in a king room).
— They helped us book activities.
— They are right across from the ocean. We could see the water from our room.
— They accommodated all of our requests pertaining to the room.
— They fixed what they could in our room in a timely manor.
Con’s
— More run down, and looks like a 70s hotel. For example our couch cushions had tears in them, and the plumbing had issues when we first arrived.
Summary, if you are looking for a cheap place to stay in Maui across from the beach, and don’t need the finest accommodations this place will work fine for you.

The cost of the rooms are decent but it is a little outdated and by personal experience I was not so ecstatic with the giant cockroaches that paid a visit to my room other then that view was great and that pretty much sums it up

This place is a total dump. We booked through Travelocity for our one week vacation in Maui and were charged mandatory amenity fees which cost us over 100 dollars for the week here. This place is not worth the money. The staff was very rude when I asked to cancel my stay here and said there would be no refund and nothing they could do. The hotel room floor is covered in black spots, has rust on the walls, the toilet does not flush properly, and has so many hidden charges. This hotel ruined my stay in Maui due to the unsanitary conditions. I hope fellow Unilocalers are now informed of the reality of this hotel and pay a little extra for something nicer.

Very nice! My husband and I had a nice stay. The beach was just outside of our hotel room with a beautiful view. This hotel is also in a good location. It wasn’t the fanciest, but if you are on a budget then it is great!

For the money, this place is great!!! We could see the ocean from our room and then walk straight out to a semi private beach! The place seemed clean enough and there was a fridge. The staff were friendly, and supplied all the towels we needed. Improvements could include better parking, Queen beds rather than full, and beach towels. But overall, the grounds were beautiful, and being able to hear the ocean from our room makes this place totally worth the other sacrifices.

You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.
I have seen better backpacker hostels in third world countries.
This place could do with a serious clean and a coat of paint.
Aston should be ashamed of themselves to call this an Aston property.
The beds were comfortable, the pool area nice, however, that’s as far as it goes.
Lots of mold and I sneezed from the dust.
The walls are super thin! The person above us sounded like they were about to fall through the floor.
Is it absolutely necessary to use a leaf blower at 7:25am on Saturday? A sleep in would have been so nice, but no, that wasn’t happening with a garden crew outside my room at 7:25am
This place is a solid 2 stars
I found the $ 15 a day ‘resort’ fee to be offensive. If I were staying at a true resort, I wouldn’t blink an eyelid, however, to pay a resort fee to a place that is a lower standard than a motel 8, is just plain rude and offensive.

My daughter booked a vacation package through
, and hotel accommodation was here at the Aston Maui Lu.
After reading numerous reviews on this website re: the Aston Maui Lu, I was having doubts of this hotel… the cleanliness (roaches and ants in some of the rooms?), the condition of the room (baseboard worn out?), the staff (are they friendly or what?), the bathroom (toilets not flushing properly?), etc. Back in my mind I was hoping the hotel would not stick us in room 206 (from another Unilocaler’s experience). Can you just imagine me holding a can of Raids roach and ant spray, just waiting to spray the heck out of them pesky critters if I saw one of them in our room and yelling…“oh hell naw” among other choice words? (I ain’t having it.)
My mind was at eased when my husband and I checked into room 101. We were glad our room was on the first floor… no climbing stairs on our arthritic knees… whew. The only drawback having this room was our noisy guest upstairs… clomp, clomp, clomp… stomp, stomp, stomp… late at night into the early morning. WTF… the person was «dancing on my ceiling», «all night long», and it was long enough to keep us awake. However, the room suited us fine… comfy bed and couch, small refrigerator, table and chairs for dining, reading, preparing my reviews of other venues on my smartphone. Basically, a home (temporary) away from home… lol. There was adequate lighting in the room, too.
Paved pathways leading to the back part of the hotel had a large grassy area with plenty of trees. Just standing there we could hear many different birds chirping away and it was very peaceful and relaxing. Across the street from the hotel was a tiny beach area where we were able to see a beautiful Maui sunset at about 6:30 PM.
The employees at the front registration desk were friendly and helpful. We were given a discout coupon book to take advantage of offers by different businesses. They have Wi-​Fi, but we did not use it. The Maui News was delivered every morning to our front door. Housekeeping staff cleaned the room daily, provided us with fresh clean towels, changed the linens and there was always a pack of Hawaiian coffee grind and packets of sugar, creamer, teas. I don’t usually drink coffee, but having it with a little bottle of Kahlua coffee liqueur (from ABC Store) and a malasada (from Sugar Beach Bake Shop) was a great start up in the morning. Michelle, the concierge, was cool and she provided me information to get to Wailuku to see the Iao Needle. (Apparently my husband and I did not go in far enough on Iao Valley Road to the State Park.) Thanks to her and her directions, we did see the Iao Needle. If we couldn’t see the needle, then we probably would have to pay an optometrist a visit for some heavy duty eyeglasses.
Overall, my husband and I enjoyed our visit to Maui, especially Kihei. When and if we ever come back to Maui for another vacation, we will stay at the Aston Maui Lu again.
A while ago (1:45 PM PST), I had to call back to the hotel because I forgot to tell them to defrost the buildup of ice in the freezer compartment of the refrigerator. I wanted the staff and housekeeping to take care of that immediately before another guest checks into room 101. Oh, yes, I also got a chuckle seeing a public telephone tucked away in their lobby.

You get what you paid for at this place. Our first shock to this resort is that there is no restaurant on site and we had to pay an additional $ 10 for amenity fees each day for wifi that required login with each use and coffee that didn’t get replenished daily (nor clean cups). They still use real keys although that didn’t bother me but my door didn’t close all the way. They ran out of clean towels on multiple occasions! If you run the AC, you won’t hear the tv. The walls are paper thin so you hear all your neighbors. The worst part was the bathroom. There is no vanity except the toilet tank too and it’s covered with rusted liquid (didn’t get wiped clean) and the plastic shower curtains sucks onto you when you shower, although they replaced new ones in my room this has got to he the worst shower experience. I was bitten by a bedbug that required new sheet change. There’s dust bunnies everywhere and the carpet is pretty gross. And do not get in the elevator, my daughter found an old slice of pizza left above our head and it smelled like death in there.
However if you can get a hold of the staff they are fairly responsive. The resort looks beautiful from the outside from their upkeep; grass is green. But then again, the pool is ice cold and undesirable. Pool towel service is stored in an abandoned storage building and hard to find.
It’s just not «resort» but again, you get what you paid for and we thank our sister for booking this place everyday we were there.
Our taxi was $ 35 from the airport. Recommendation, if you are staying here you will need a car. It is not walkable to much of any necessities. The activity desk helped us booked a rental.

It’s a decent place and reasonable price, but for a reasonable place doesn’t mean it’s clean. We didn’t get new sheets everyday when we stayed here for a week.
What you pay is what you get.

There are few words that can describe Aston Maui Lu
1. Roaches.
2. Molds.
3. Dirty.
4. Old.
5. Broken.
6. Cheap.
We are currently staying at Maui Lu. Closet door is broken. We have to literally take the closet door out of the track in order to move it. There are molds and holes all over the bathroom wall. The headboard are so dusty, thankfully we brought disinfectant wipe to wipe the dirt off.
The clean towel had old blood stains.
Found roaches running around the dirty old carpet and when we told the front desk, she said they will send someone to spray the room. Obviously it’s not the first time a customer has complaint. It must be a regular complaint for them.
In addition, there must be loose or cracked tiles underneath the carpet. Every time we walk on them, the floor moves and you can hear the cracking sound.
Dirty walls, corners, cracked baseboards.
The overall grounds is a lovely view with palm trees and nice greens. Unfortunately, we can’t sleep outside.
For you to get to the beach, you have to walk down the hotel grounds and through a busy road.
Some pros — free movie rental, free daily morning newspaper and free parking. Actually, they are not free because you pay $ 10.00 resort fee.
The pool is something else. I won’t go in details.

PROS:
+ Across the road from the beach
+ Lots of restaurants within a few miles of the hotel
+ Large comfortable room
+ Free WiFi
+ Free DVD rentals
CONS:
— Lack of complimentary breakfast
— Stained bathtub & grimy-​looking tiles
— No microwave
— Tiny TV
— $ 10 per day amenities charge

We stayed here for our Maui trip. It’s relatively inexpensive but I still feel like for the price it should be of better quality. The room wasn’t very clean and the AC and hair dryer were both broken. The front desk staff are lovely though. If you’re on a budget and are primarily gonna be out and about then this place will do. Otherwise, you’ll have to suck it up and pay more expensive hotels for better accommodations.

This hotel was a huge disappointment! Do not be fooled by the website. The rooms look nothing like what is shown on their site. We stayed for 4 days in Maui and while we had a pretty decent rate from Travelzoo I wouldn’t pay more than $ 40 a night if I were to do it again.
We stayed in room 206 and the bathroom had mold, the room was full of ants, the «garden view» was an overgrown plant that covered our window with no view, the towels were dirty, the in wall air conditioner was so loud we had to shut it off at night to sleep, the TV went in and out of service, and the lamp by the bed was broken.
The best thing I can say about this hotel is the location. We spent a great time up and down the west coast and this centrally located hotel provided a good midpoint. In addition they had free Wi-​Fi; however, do not relay on this signal if you need to do any type of work connected to a corporate network.
Do yourself a favor and spend a little more and go somewhere you can actually get a good night sleep. I have stayed in hostels that were nicer than this.

3.5÷5
The Aston Maui Lu isn’t one of those fancy hotels that cost an arm and a leg… in fact it’s the opposite. It’s a budget friendly, conveniently located, and drum roll please… dum dum dum, FREE ALL YOU CAN INDULGE COCONUT hotel.
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[Price]
After searching for dozens of hotels online, I found myself feeling a bit discouraged. I wanted to have fun but spending loads of money on a room, just for a few hours of sleep a night wasn’t so easy to do. Luckily, I found the Aston Maui Lu, and yeah for just $ 85/​night, who could complain.
[Accommodation]
The rooms are a little old and the T.V. was basically from the last century, but why complain. It’s a budget friendly resort with basic accommodation for people who aren’t picky. (Who said you needed a fancy hotel to have fun in Hawaii?)
Some of the perks:
–Nice balcony view
–Landry room on site
–Free movie rentals (Dude! You’re in Hawaii!)
–Conveniently located next to the beach. (Within a 5 minute walk)
–Short distance from «The Circle» (Where all the town activities are, i.e. restaurants, bars, rental stores)
–A fairly new pool, (Mandatory for PALE PEOPLE like me)
–A Coconut Plantation! (What does that mean? Well, FREE COCONUT DUH!)
[Staff]
Great, friendly staff! The rooms were cleaned on time, check in-​out was fast and easy, and on top of that, one of the caretakers took the extra step in getting us coconuts!
One of the caretaker noticed I was enjoying my delicious coconut and asked me to follow him. So, with a coconut on hand, I followed him… when all of a sudden he took out a long metal pole, pulled down some coconuts, worked his Kung Fu machete action, and WALAHH. Free coconuts! So don’t be like me and buy coconuts, instead get it for free!
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So yeah, the Aston Maui Lu isn’t a 5 star hotel with fancy rooms and marble showers… it’s a conveniently located, budget friendly hotel with just the right amount of coconuts.

Old, smelly, needs to be cleaned, and furniture replaced. I thought I was not going to care much since most of the trip was going to be spent outside exploring the island, but boy was I wrong. The little time I was in that hotel room was more than enough to make me write a review.
The furniture is old, chipped, chairs are dirty and/​or plastic. There were tiny little bugs all over the the phone, tv, glasses; I had to go borrow a towel and cleaning spray from housekeeping. The next morning I woke up to a lovely surprise, hundreds of ants all over the bathroom sink. Thankfully, they agreed to switch our room. The only good thing about the new room was it was bug free. I don’t know how old the mattresses and pillows are, but they must be old because even though I assume the sheets get washed, they don’t smell clean, all you get is an old-​humidity aroma. There is mold growing on the shower curtains; and from watching housekeeping 3 days, it is safe to assume the carpet area of the rooms does not get vacuumed, as none of them had a vacuum with them.
I do not like hotels in general, but this one was really bad. Paying for the ocean view room is a waste of money, the rooms look nothing like their website pictures.

If I could had scored this hotel a 3.5 stars, I would, but I’ll just round up the stars to a 4. As all the other reviewers have stated, it is not a 4 or 5 star hotel.
The landscape could be improved as there are some overgrowing weeds. There is an abandon hotel building with broken windows and hanging screens. I am assuming that the old building is inoperable and unrepairable from a previous storm?
The hotel uses keys made of metal and not credit card keys. The furniture has to be 20 years old, but they do function. The bed should be replaced, but still comfortable. The TV is a 20″ tube connected to an PS2 for movies.
Now for the positives. Free internet! Many places these days charge close to $ 10 a day. I did not swim in the pool. It seemed that it was olympic length with a curve. The exterior was wood. It looked nostalgic and fits the Hawaiian environment perfectly. I felt as if I was walking around a treehouse. Another positive is the central location in my opinion. Its easy to get to the leeward side, north shore, windward side, and south shore of the island. Plenty of better restaurants and snorkling compared to the location of the resorts on the leeward side. Every morning, a free Maui newspaper was left on our door stoop. Finally, it is cheap! If you are on vacation to stay in a hotel the entire time, then do not come here. But, if you like SEEING the island and experiencing the culture, pay for a cheaper, accommodating hotel.
In conclusion, stay here. Exterior is so superficial. Internal beauty leaves greater impressions.

Loved this place. =) Really happy we found it. Older grounds. which i LIKE. Worth it to upgrade to beach front or ocean side room. Great little private beach. Thank you Aston Maui Lu!

ROACHES! Big and small. Alive. Crawling. Roaches.
Staff was rude and refused to give us another room (probably because all of them have roaches.) We were on our honeymoon and couldn’t afford to leave.
Decided to take a bath to calm the nerves, and we got a rude phone call asking what we were doing in the bathroom. Apparently there was a leak in the room below us.
It may have been cheap, but we would not recommend this place.

Having finished our stay here for a week, I can now accurately discuss our experience.
Overall, the Aston Maui Lu is an OK place to stay, with it’s primary benefit being location. Seeing as I come to Maui regularly to visit relatives, one of whom lives right up the street, I can’t think of a more convenient hotel for my needs. In addition, the Maui Lu is located right next to the beach (with some property on it), is not too far from North Kihei shopping, and is centrally located to allow easy access to most of the interior of the island.
Most of the complaints are about how worn the rooms and buildings are, and I can confirm this is partially so. The buildings and furniture are well-​used and a little money toward upgrade wouldn’t hurt. Mostly, though, this is superficial; the equipment works fine and there’s a rustic, old beach cabana feel to the place. Green grounds, shaded by palm trees, and fenced off from the surrounding clutter. Seeing as my choice is to pay a ridiculous amount for some hermetically-​sealed tourist resort… or pay a normal price to live like the rest of the locals (good and bad). I’ll take the latter.
A few negative notes for those attending:
1) The drive and parking area are in serious need of repair. There’s an entire portion of the Maui Lu that is practically abandoned, with a building in a state of ruins and one parking area that is more pothole than pavement. You kind of have to drive a thin, roundabout way to get in and out and the parking not only fills up but is full of jerks who park across multiple spaces.
2) The shower is very old style, in that you cannot choose how hard or fast the water comes out. Comments of the showers «not draining» are false; the shower is draining but it can’t keep up with the amount of hard water pouring out. Prepare for a rough shower when it comes time to do so.
3) The beds are not the most comfortable. Younger people might be able to handle them, but being overweight with a bad back I woke up sore every morning. If they would put some softer mattresses in, the place might get a few less poor reviews.
Now, I cannot speak for the amenities as I only used the internet. The do offer a 24-​hour common area (near the front desk) with vending machines, microwave, DVD/​video game rental, etc. All of these are paid for by your «activity rental» which costs ~$ 10.00/day. I probably would have gotten more for my buck if I’d participated, but I was fine with paying just to have wi-​fi.
In summary, this is an A-​OK place to stay, especially if you’re looking for (relatively) «cheap» lodging on Maui. It’ll put you centrally to everywhere, the overall grounds aren’t bad, the staff was friendly, and it did what it’s supposed to do. However, if you’re looking for high-​class, modern upgrades, or just can’t take a bit of wear-​and-​tear on a place? Look elsewhere, because you won’t enjoy your stay.