For the next few nostalgic Tuesdays, I will post on the best hotels I have enjoyed in the past.  I will begin with the Mauna Beach Hotel on the Big Island of Hawaii because this was the first luxury hotel I ever experienced. Pearl and I got married on 22December1962, and I recall having part of our honeymoon at the  Mauna Kea Beach Hotel . However, my memory must be faulty, because I checked  Wikipedia  and learned that this hotel opened on 2July1965.  So this must have been our second honeymoon. I was then working as a factory engineer at the Hutchinson Sugar Company in Naalehu, also on the Big Island. The Mauna Kea Beach Hotel: Developed and constructed by Laurance Rockefeller, who fell in love with Kaunoa Bay on the Big Island. Secured a 99-year lease for a 500-acre parcel from Richard  Smart, owner of  Parker Ranch , which at one time was the largest cattle ranch in the USA.  This is interesting. 19-year old John Palmer Parker jumped ship in K...