You can eat in the restaurant or make a reservation for what some believe is the best luau on the island. It's the only luau we've ever been to, so it's tough to say if it's the best. But we enjoyed the food and the entertainment immensely!

Gaylords at Kilohana is by far the best restaurant on the island. This elegant estate home belonged to Gaylord Wilcox during the height of the sugar cane years. The restaurant has ambience and an excellent lunch, dinner, and Sunday brunch menu. Local ingredients enhance standard items, and the chef comes up with some imaginative offerings, too. Be sure to ask for the dessert menu! Prices in the evening are high, so we often go for lunch to get an equally exquisite meal for fewer traveler’s checks!

To top off a good meal, stroll through the shops tucked into former bedrooms, baths, and the plantation office. I always find a treasure there. Take a peek into the living room to get an idea about what elegant plantation life was like.

We went to the breakfast buffet our first morning, and it was $12 a person. It is in a lovely sugar plantation. They had French toast, eggs, breakfast meats, homemade breads, pastries, and fruits. They also served Hawaiian juices and coffee. It was somewhat standard but tasty fare. We were seated at a table with a lovely view of their gardens. They provide a lei for the adult women, but decided to give my 12-year-old daughter one, too.

Afterwards, you can do a two-for-one carriage ride of their lovely and interesting grounds and see things like banana trees. I later saw in one of the tourist coupon books you pick up all over the place and at the airport that if you mention their ad, you can save 20% off their regular buffet price.

There are also several nice gift shops, including a glassmaker's shop, Hawaiian clothes shop, jewelry store, and pottery studio to browse through before or after your meal. It was a pleasant start to our trip!

Our meal was $35 per person, excluding the blue Hawaii drink, and we got a slice of chocolate decadence to carry back with us. The restaurant's waiter and staff were very nice and knowledgable of the menu. The environment was very relaxed and romantic. We have decided to make this restaurant a tradition for the last night before we leave the island on future trips. Our travel is 15 hours, so we do want our last light to be quite so busy.

This was a luau. It was absoluting amazing. We were able to see them pull the pig out of the pit. The mai tai's were on serving platters whereever you looked. There were appetizers, salads, and a wonderful buffet dinner. The rule of the luau is to eat until you are tired. There was a wonderful show with dancers and singing while we ate our dessert. There was coffee, water, and soda available. It was a wonderful experience. Pictures were taken with some of the dancers that you could purchase. These were very good quality. I have been to two other luaus and I enjoyed this one more than the others- the food was absolutely wonderful.