Combined lodging tax: ~18.5% of headline
The stack as of January 2026: the General Excise Tax of 4% plus the 0.5% Maui County surcharge (4.5%), the state Transient Accommodations Tax of 11% (raised from 10.25% on 1 January 2026), and the Maui County TAT of 3%. On a $44,000 weekly headline, the combined tax line is roughly $8,140. On a $160,000 holiday-peak headline, roughly $29,600. All three lines are itemized and legally passed through to the guest.
Departure cleaning fee: $800 to $2,800
A one-time departure cleaning fee is standard and itemized, scaling with the house. A six-bedroom villa runs $1,200 to $2,000; a 10-bedroom estate runs up to $2,800. Most editorial-list Wailea and Makena villas include a daily or every-other-day housekeeper in the headline, which is a genuine point of difference from the Cape Cod model.
Staff: housekeeper included on most editorial-list villas
The standard Maui luxury villa includes a daily or every-other-day housekeeper, a houseman or groundskeeper, and pool maintenance in the headline. The Makena and Wailea trophy estates also include a property manager and a concierge, and some include a daytime cook. A villa attendant or butler runs $400 to $700 per day if you add one. Verify the staff bench in writing.
Evening chef: $700 to $1,400 per service plus food at cost
An independent evening chef runs $700 to $1,400 per service plus food at cost for ten, the highest chef line in this guide. Maui imports most of its protein, the chef bench is thin, and the strongest cooks book out months ahead. The best are alumni of the Four Seasons, the Montage, Merriman’s, and the Mama’s Fish House kitchens. Food cost lands at $110 to $220 per person depending on protein (local ahi, ono, opakapaka, Maui Cattle Company beef, imported wagyu). The holiday lead time runs eight to twelve weeks.
Restaurant nights: $90 to $260 per head
Mama’s Fish House (the canonical Maui dinner, in Paia) runs $130 to $220 per head before wine and is the single hardest reservation on the island. Merriman’s Kapalua runs $110 to $180. Morimoto at the Andaz Wailea runs $140 to $230. Ka’ana Kitchen at the Andaz runs $90 to $150. Nobu Maui at the Ritz Kapalua runs $160 to $260. A family of eight at Mama’s with wine lands between $1,800 and $2,600. The Mama’s reservation lead time runs the full sixty days the system allows; book it the minute it opens.
Boat, whale-watch, and water: $1,200 to $7,500 per day
A snorkel-and-Molokini catamaran charter runs $1,200 to $2,800 with crew. A whale-watch charter in February and March runs $1,400 to $3,200 and is the single best use of a Maui morning in season. A 45 to 55-foot sport-fisher for an ahi or mahi day runs $2,400 to $4,500. A luxury motor-yacht day along the Wailea coast runs $5,500 to $7,500. The Molokini crater snorkel is the canonical south-shore charter; the whale-watch is the canonical winter one.
SUV rental: $90 to $230 per day
An SUV rental runs $90 to $230 per day, higher in the holiday and whale-season peaks when island inventory tightens. Maui distances are real (Wailea to Kapalua is an hour, Wailea to Hana is most of a day), so most groups keep a vehicle even when the villa includes transfers. A second SUV for the week runs $500 to $1,400. Book the rental early in peak; Maui runs out of cars at Christmas.
OGG (Kahului) transfers: $140 to $240 each way (SUV)
OGG sits in the center of the island. A private SUV from OGG to Wailea or Makena runs $140 to $240 each way (35 to 50 minutes). OGG to Kapalua runs $180 to $300 (55 to 75 minutes). OGG to Hana runs $400 to $700 (2.5 to 3 hours). A Sprinter van for groups of eight or more runs $260 to $440. Most luxury villas include the arrival transfer.
Pre-stock and provisioning: $900 to $3,200
Arrival provisioning runs $900 to $1,400 for a family of six and $1,800 to $3,200 for a group of twelve, coordinated through Foodland Farms in Wailea or the Times and Mana markets. Maui’s import dependence makes groceries the most expensive in this guide; plan a 20 to 35 percent premium over mainland prices. The farmers-market and Maui Cattle Company lines are the local exceptions worth using.