Sunset Side or Pool Side: How the Ko Olina Beach Villas Face

Two villas can share a floor, a pool and a lagoon and still give you very different mornings and evenings. One lanai catches the last light over the water; another looks across the pool toward the sunrise. If the view matters to your trip, it helps to know how the two towers at Beach Villas at Ko Olina are laid out before you choose.

Start with the west side

Ko Olina sits on the western shore of Oahu, on the island's sunny leeward coast. As our home page puts it, the sun sets straight off the west-facing lanais. The home page also carries a "Sunset tonight" line, so you can plan to be on the lanai for it.

Beach Tower: read the last two digits

In the Beach Tower, the villa number tells you which way it faces. The last two digits are the stack. The floor-by-floor list on our site sets it out the way the developer showed it:

• Even stacks (02, 04, 06, 08) face west, the sunset side.
• Odd stacks (01, 03, 05, 07) face east, the sunrise side, over the pool.
• Stacks 09 and 10 are on the end of the building, facing the lagoon.

So Beach Tower 702 and 804 are on the sunset side, while Beach Tower 303 and 307 are on the pool side.

Ocean Tower: wings and centre

The Ocean Tower is laid out in three parts. The centre stacks, 01 to 06, face the ocean. The west wing holds stacks 10 to 15, and the east wing holds stacks 21 to 26. The home page names the Beach Tower west face and the Ocean Tower west wing as the sunset side. As in the Beach Tower, the last two digits of the villa number give you the stack, so Ocean Tower 1403 is a centre villa on the 14th floor, and Ocean Tower 225 is in the east wing.

Several Ocean Tower villas run front to back with two lanais: the main lanai off the living room, plus a second, private lanai through a sliding door from the master bedroom, on the back of the building. Some villa pages show this in a "Layout" row.

How to check a villa before you ask

You do not need a floor plan in hand to work this out. Our site gives you three ways to see where a villa sits:

• The numbered picture. Every member villa is numbered on a picture of the towers, with views from different sides of the buildings, including the pool side. Tap a number to see which villa it is. An arrow marks a villa whose lanai is on the far side of the building.
• The floor-by-floor list. Every villa in both towers, floor by floor and stack by stack, with a bedroom count where the Association's list gives one.
• The villa page. Each page shows the tower, the floor, the bedrooms, baths and how many guests it sleeps, plus the "Layout" row where one applies.

Which side suits your trip?

There is no wrong answer. A sunset-side villa is easy to love if your group wants to gather on the lanai at the end of the day. A pool-side villa puts you near the morning light and the pool deck. For a group booking several villas, a mix can work well, and it is worth asking the host which side each villa is on when you send your request.

Whichever side you pick, the basics stay the same at every member villa: a 6-night minimum stay, and you book directly with the villa's own host. Groups of up to 150 guests can stay in several villas at the one resort, as close to one another as the calendars allow.

Find your side

Find any villa on the numbered picture and the floor-by-floor list on our home page, then open its villa page for the floor and layout. Planning for a bigger party of family or friends? Start on the group stays page.