Posted on 08/22/2023 9:15:46 AM PDT by algore
Bungling U.S. government bureaucrats dispatched to the Maui disaster zone are shacked up in $1,000-a-night luxury hotels on the Hawaiian island, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have been slammed by locals over their slow response to the devastating wildfires that have claimed at least 114 lives and left thousands of people homeless after their houses were scorched to the ground.
But that has not stopped the under-fire agency from splashing taxpayer cash to put up more than 1,000 of its personnel at four bank-breaking resorts in Wailea after the deadliest wildfire in the U.S. for more than a century that caused an estimated $5billion in damage.
The beachside resorts are popular among the rich and famous and located about a 45-minute drive away from the fire-ravaged town of Lahaina.
FEMA teams have checked in at three five-star hotels, the Fairmont Kea Lani, Four Seasons, and the Grand Wailea Astoria where past guests include members of Hollywood's elite.
Their rooms carry price tags that are well out of reach of most hard-working Americans.
Federal government rates for this week at all three resorts start at an eye-watering $1,000, company sources told DailyMail.com.
The Fairmont Kea Lani, Hawaiian for 'heavenly white', boasts on its website about being the 'only all-suite' hotel in Hawaii that once welcomed ex-Bond star Pierce Brosnan and offers 'gourmet dining' to uber-wealthy guests.
The 780 rooms come with either one or two bedrooms, measuring at least 860 square feet, and have private balconies so that visitors can soak up the sunset views of what the hotel calls 'an oceanside paradise.'
Meanwhile, the Four Seasons, another top resort that once hosted Kanye West, spans nearly 15 acres and has a white fountain pool, green trees, 600 square-feet rooms.
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I can visualize them lying back in their chaise lounges, umbrella drinks in hand.
Definitely a bad look.
They should be in FEMA tents.
Our government needs to be reined in.
But not out of reach for America hating parasites. When will we finally say we've had enough?
Meals included?
That MIGHT pay for one night in Wailea.
Our elites deserve the best the US can offer. They are our superiors.
What is the MSA for Maui?
Spent a few nights at one of the most expensive (as in the top three) hotels in all of London this past spring. Met a woman in the restaurant over breakfast, there in her capacity as part of a federal agency visit of some sort.
So thats where all the money went that should have gone to the victims...
meanwhile the victims are still living in shelters if they can find room in one...
Can Joe really spare that $700 a family for the victims...
Oh how generous ...
...”once hosted Kanye West”
Maybe Kanye can do another “We Are The World” song and donate the proceeds to the FEMA peeps?
When my daughter as an EMT convoyed from Troy, NY, To NOLA after hurricane Katrina——She slept in a TENT for two weeks.
The feds are just rubbing our noses in it.
It’s good to be King.
The Grand Wailea Astoria is the nicest of all these hotels.
It is the only one that gives you a wrist band to identify you as a guest of the hotel. It keeps the riff raff from Four Seasons next door and other hotels from sneaking into the pool area.
“and rooms of 600 square feet...”
So? That’s 20 x 30 feet. Seems fairly average for a hotel room to me.
Maybe they meant 6000?
Democrats and RINOs, and all their little friends burrowed into the hive called government, defended against those who would resent being "ruled."
Past time to "degrow" government, city, county, state and federal....
The Ritz on Maui is really nice.
Stayed at the Ritz in Berlin. That breakfast was worth waking up for. Best coffee ever.
Clear demonstration of the contempt the current administration has for the American people. Disgusting
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