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Kona Kai Resort
Key Largo, Florida, United States · Independent · Accessible Luxury
An adults-only, 14-room Keys hideaway on Florida Bay in Key Largo, Kona Kai sits inside a two-acre botanic garden where guests pick tropical fruit from the trees. Joe and Ronnie Harris bought the waterfront in 1991 and grew an ethnobotanic garden around mature mahoganies, gumbo limbos, and palms, plus an art gallery of botanical work. Kayaks and paddleboards come with the stay; the garden is one of only two frost-free botanic gardens in the continental United States.
- 14 rooms
- Opened 1965
- Neighborhood: Rock Harbor
About Kona Kai Resort
- A private Florida Bay beach and a waterfront freshwater pool sit among the bungalows, with yoga on Thursday and Saturday.
- Joe and Ronnie Harris bought the two-acre waterfront in 1991 and opened the Botanic Gardens at Kona Kai as an ethnobotanic garden guests can tour and sleep in.
- Guests can take a self-guided garden walk or a 90-minute ethnobotany tour billed as Transforming Your Understanding of Plants.
Amenities
- Spa
- Pool
- Hot tub
- Tennis
- Private beach
- Water sports
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