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From Travel + Leisure , FEB 2003

John and Michele Gamble held nothing back in creating a paradise at the end of a palm-lined drive, 15 minutes north of Hilo on the Big Island. The eight-room Victorian sits on a 100-foot cliff overlooking Pohakumanu Bay, and has jaw-dropping views of the blue breakers and—on clear days—snowcapped Mauna Kea. Hike down the jungly Akaka Falls Trail beside twin 400-foot cataracts to secret swimming holes, or lounge the afternoon away on the wraparound lanai, watching whales play against the...MORE>>

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From Travel + Leisure , JUN 2002

On the eastern shore of the Big Island, 13 miles north of Hilo and 100 years back in time, stands the Palms Cliff House. Built on a former cliffside plantation, the inn still maintains an unhurried gentility. Each morning, you'll climb from your Italian lace—trimmed sheets to watch from your lanai as the sun rises over migrating humpback whales, and then sit down to a breakfast of fruits plucked from the adjacent gardens: rambutan, breadfruit, mango, six kinds of banana...MORE>>

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Last updated February 2003