Price of paradise! Hawaii has always been an expensive place to live so this doesn't surprise me.
And yes, this will support tourists more (although locals like to have dinner/brunch/holo holo there too) which means that they WON'T be using the Pearlridge charger.
You can’t. It’s a different garage/level of the garage. Only accessible to valets. It has been posted previously in this thread.
Just saying, the app changed from Valet to Valet AND pay to park (level 2) so why would they change it? Maybe someone takes the up, who knows but just going by what the app says. Guess will have to go there to try it instead of going off what people are saying who haven't even used it yet. lol
A valet isn't going to delay plugging in your car just to get you to stay longer.
I look on the app occasionally and have yet to see a stall occupied!
I don’t hunk Tesla has referred to any chargers here being self parking. App says valet and pay to park. I think someone else was suggesting you could self park at the superchargers because the main parking garage offers self parking and therefore the superchargers are self parking. This is flawed logic and has been proven false because the superchargers aren’t even in the self parking area.
If that's correct, surely the hotel's benefit should be the increased foot traffic and related business, just like the majority of other Supercharger locations. It's funny (and seemingly always a hotel) when the sites try to over-think it and end up messing the whole thing up. The Stanley Hotel in Colorado tried to charge people to supercharge and it caused chaos and they changed their mind - they still get PLENTY of business from the foot traffic from folks who supercharge there. If Kahala's actual business plan is to support their own fleet, then it would want to be a pretty huge fleet purchase for Tesla to justify footing the bill for providing it practically exclusive supercharger access. A friend has 6 Teslas on Turo, maybe he can call Tesla and ask them to build him a free supercharger in his front yard.
In a few places, Tesla has installed Superchargers that are in restricted space for themselves - in service centers, at the Gigafactories, ... but I'm not aware of Tesla providing Superchargers for any third party's benefit (this rule possibly bent in Europe/Netherlands for an early nosecone Model S taxi service). If the hotel was going to build a Tesla fleet, their chargers would be destination/HPWC and owned by them, installed by them and private or public at their discretion. Even Larry Ellison's Tesla fleet on Lanai have public Urban chargers (and public HPWC as well).
Yep this is a good point - actually the situations where a supercharger would beat a level 2 charger would be fairly rare I would think for hotel guests on the island. You will always be at 100% in the morning and you’re not doing laps of the island every day so you’re never going to run out of charge. If they have a fleet of a dozen teslas, they just need to give them parking stalls with level 2 chargers, the added bonus is once you get back to the hotel and park, you don’t have to mess around with the car anymore getting it back from the supercharger.
