The Mauna Kea Beach Hotel on the Island of Hawaii will undergo a $180 million renovation, starting next year. 

Part of Marriott International’s Autograph Collection, the resort will see a full redesign of its 252 guest rooms and suites and four dining venues. Various amenities at the property, including the Mauna Kea Golf Course — one of two 18-hole courses on-site — also will be updated, the resort announced Friday. 

The resort’s signature restaurant Manta, which offers views of Kaunaʻoa Bay, will be redesigned, with Dallas-based Looney & Associates leading on interiors and Honolulu-based Architects Hawaii Ltd. handling architectural work. 

The renovation will also add an “extensive destination spa and infinity pool experience” with 11 indoor and al fresco treatment rooms, a full-service salon and a fitness center to the property. New garden areas, including a chef's garden providing fresh produce for the resort’s kitchens and a botanical garden with indigenous and endemic plant species, will be added as well. 

As part of the renovation, Mauna Kea Beach Hotel will partner with Honoluluʻs Bishop Museum to refurbish a million-dollar art collection commissioned by Laurance S. Rockefeller, American venture capitalist and conservationist who developed the resort property in the 1960s. 

The partnership will work to ensure the art collection, comprising hundreds of pieces, is preserved and thoughtfully displayed throughout the property’s unrestricted public spaces, the resort said. 

The renovation project is slated to commence in the second quarter of 2024 and wrap up in early 2025. 

Other recent hotel activity across Hawaii includes Outrigger Hospitality Group’s acquisition of the newly renovated 11-acre, 432-room Kā’anapali Beach Hotel on Maui. The same island was significantly impacted by deadly wildfires in August.