The Palm Suite, a home-away-from-home for the honeymooning characters Shane and Rachel, is one of the resort’s Elite Oceanfront Suites—and was given what Fox called an ‘anti-beach’ makeover with vintage greens, velvet, and hanging lights. The White Lotus’s other honeymoon suite, the Pineapple, is the Lokelani Presidential Suite; at 4,500 square feet, it’s the hotel’s (and Hawaii’s) largest, with three bedrooms, five bathrooms, and two living rooms. This was given a palette of yellow, green, and brown with, of course, pineapple motifs.
For volatile Tanya, played by Jennifer Coolidge, who arrives with her mother’s ashes in a plastic bag, the Hibiscus Suite was created in one of the Oceanfront Prime Suites, with pinks and reds expressly designed to clash with her sartorial fondness for bright prints. Then, for the Mossbacher family, led by tech exec Nicole, the Tradewinds Suite was created from the Maile Presidential Suite, with a range of blues and very ’70s Hawaiian art. This was the biggest departure from the real Four Seasons hotel: In the show’s Tradewinds, the Mossbacher kids sleep in the living room, but the Maile is in fact the Four Seasons Maui’s second-largest suite, with three bedrooms, four bathrooms, and a full sauna included.
Four Seasons Resort, Maui, HawaiiQuentin Bacon/Courtesy Four Seasons Resort Maui
Wailea Beach
Outside the rooms and restaurants, it’s water that matters. Beach scenes focusing on Quinn Mossbacher were filmed on Wailea Beach, just steps away from the hotel, as we see on screen. For the swimming pools, meanwhile, the action focused on two of the Four Seasons’s three, leaving the child-friendly Waterfall Pool in the background. We spend plenty of time at the Serenity Pool, where Shane and Rachel take a cabana, the Mossbacher girls read waterside and Quinn is seen wading to the swim-up bar carrying his phone and console at arm’s length, like holy relics. For Quinn and his father’s scuba lessons, it’s the Fountain Pool, which sits at the center of the property.
Where was season two of The White Lotus filmed?
The second season of The White Lotus was filmed at the San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A Four Seasons Hotel, in Taormina, Sicily. Situated high on the rocks a little inland, it overlooks the Ionian Sea, Mount Etna, and an ancient amphitheater, built in the Greek style by the Romans. The town is famous for its proximity to the still-active Etna, as well as the Isola Bella nature reserve and for its medieval architecture.
