Maui Sunseeker Resort Is Now Kohea Kai Resort… — Hotel Impossible Update

Maui Sunseeker Resort was an LGBT-focused hotel in South Maui, Hawaii, that Hotel Impossible (Travel Channel) featured in the episode that aired 2012-12-17 (S2E3); Maui Now covered the filming in a 2012-12-03 article describing the show's visit to the property. According to a Maui News article dated 2016-09, then-owner Chuck Spence sold the resort to M R and T Maui Hotel Management in September 2016, and the buyer renamed the property Kohea Kai Resort Maui. The same Maui News report attributed the sale to changing market conditions, noting that LGBT couples had grown more comfortable staying at mainstream resorts and that longtime gay guests had begun choosing other hotels, while newer heterosexual guests offset only part of the resulting revenue decline.

A separate feature on Advocate.com, dated 2016-11-29, discussed the broader trend of LGBT-branded hotels converting to mainstream operation around the same period. The Google Places record supplied across the show line matched a differently named, differently located Curio Collection by Hilton property on Florida's Gulf Coast rather than the Maui hotel; that match, and its address, latitude, longitude, and website, were disregarded here as a data error rather than evidence about the featured property's status. No source reviewed gave a current, 2026-dated status for the renamed Kohea Kai Resort Maui itself, and this record's single search did not extend to checking whether that successor property remains open under its post-2016 name.