Opened in 1966, the property has changed ownership a few times, including most recently in 2025 to an entity called Molokai Hotel Group (an ironic name considering it seems to imply the island has more than one hotel).
There were once other hotels, such as Kaluakoi Resort and the Molokai Lodge & Beach Village, but they faced local opposition and closed by the end of the 2000s.
Historically, the main concerns with large-scale tourism are how it would impact Molokai’s water supply, marine animals, and the community’s more old-fashioned way of life. (For example, there are no traffic lights on the island.)
Despite this resistance, Hotel Molokai remains.
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