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Cabanarama

By Vivian Fuentebella-Sanchez • Jul 31st, 2008 • Category: Architecture

Making room reservations at the Four Seasons Hotel in Maui is fairly easy, reserving a pool side cabana however, is another story.

Unable to score a coveted poolside cabana during high summer season, my husband convinced us that we were better off lounging under a sunbrella stuck on the Wailea sand and call it a day. I may have been deprived of a cabana that humid day in July but that didn’t stop me from wanting one. Cabana, which means a hut in Spanish, has always been associated with Hollywood glam. Despite its lightweight structure surrounded with cloth panels, having a cabana or a pool house or a guest house at your residential property is really about having the luxury of an extra outdoor room…