mahinui na lani in Volcano, United States
| Languages: | English |
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| My Website: | http://www.mahinui.com |
| I’ve traveled to: | Hawaii, British Columbia, France, England, Switzerland, Japan, California, New England, New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, New Mexico, San Juan Islands, Seattle, New York, Mazatlan, all around California and the west coast of the US from Baja to BC |
| About me: | Aloha from the Big Island of Hawaii where my husband Robert and I, Gail, live & work. Mahinui na lani consists of a private venue for intimate celebrations and a treehouse for vacation accommodations, on separate properties. Our specialty is small weddings with honeymoons in the treehouse. We are adjacent to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Our visitors are from all over the world, and many are first time visitors to the island. I am happy to participate in this website for the chance it gives me to share with them and anyone else who comes to this website enough information about my favorite places to give you all an appetite for more! I love our island, and especially this unique volcano, home to Tutu Pele. To find wonderful places to visit on the Big Island, look at the places we have reviewed. Most are readily accessible, others not as much so. If you would like a tour of less accessible places, or simply to be driven about and taken to our favorite spots on the island, let us know. much aloha! |
| Location: | Volcano, Hawaii, United States |
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mahinui na lani
We offer an intimate venue for private parties and celebrations, just outside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Our specialty is small weddings with a honeymoon in our genuine treehouse. Our costs are deliberately low so you can enjoy an ultimate amazing wedding or other celebration with an elopement budget. Photos of the treehouse and pavilion and grounds are in the slide show you can view from the link above. We also offer island photography in special locations around the island. This allows your wedding or honeymoon to be recorded professionally with results you cannot expect to do through getting fellow travelers to snap your photo.
Offered Services
Photography & Portraits
We offer wedding, honeymoon, and family photography and portraiture. Hawaii offers remarkable context and scenery that lets you tell your story in pictures. Unlike formal wedding photography, our plein air style captures the mood and the sense of place.
Prices vary according to time alloted to the photo shoot. A full hour of shooting begins at $250, where all travel is limited to Volcano. To get an idea of the versatility of place, mood, and capture, please look at the photo album published to this site.
If interested, please contact us via email or phone.
mahinui na lani rainforest celebrations
Our weddings include leis, blowing of the triton shell, over 100 photos on disc, edited, cake, music, private romantic location, wedding toast, and treehouse stay
You may choose our private secluded wedding pavilion up a forest path for your celebration, or an island beach or waterfall location. Other locations may involve additional expenses or fees.
Hale Mahinui
This house is on the grounds with the wedding pavilion. It is available for honeymoon stays, friends & family of the wedding party stays, and as a private rental.
mahinui na lani treehouse
This is a real treehouse suspended from the ohia trees in the rainforest of Kilauea. It sleeps two and was conceived as a honeymoon locale. Romance at treehouse includes a cedar hot tub, dreamy memory foam bed, music by candlelight, and a view from the treetops. Rate is for minimum two night stay. Single nighters welcome - $295. Price shown is effective calendar year 2011.
mahinui na lani
Our treehouse in the forest of Kilauea is built from recycled materials and is off grid. This is an opportunity to experience off grid living including a composting toilet. Price shown is for minimum two night stay - single night is $295. Price shown is effective calendar year 2012. For more images, click on "see more images" above. Treehouse has been chosen by TripAdvisor as one of the ten romantic places to stay. It has been featured on Extreme Cribs, the Today show, and in travel articles around the globe.
Tiki Parties!
Our private party pavilion is equipped with a bar for drink service, and can be lighted even in daylight hours in a fashionably tiki style. We have our very own tiki mug that can become the signature mug for your special event.
Prices will vary depending on the details of your party. We do not vend alcohol, so you provide the rum and other alcohols and we provide the rest. We can either use bar mix or fresh juices made from island grown tropical fruits including pineapple, starfruit, tangerines,limes, lilikoi, mango and papaya. Drinks will be topped with fresh fruit slices and fresh orchids.
Music in the style of Martin Denny and Don Tiki combines with the trills and calls of the birds of the rainforest.
Our pavilion is suitable for intimate gatherings of up to about 24. Your special party, your special island. Unforgettable, as magical as Disneyland could ever have wanted to be.
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