Michelle Winner was at a writer's retreat on Maui at Haiku ( Hi Koo) House, a privately owned 20 acre estate in Haiku, Maui. This rare gem, a historic house built in the 1860s, has been restored to its original beauty with polished Koa wood floors and Hawaiian antiquities of the period, but with modern amenities. It is now open to the public to rent the entire estate for vacations, corporate retreats, workshops, and couples and families to use as a home-base while hosting their wedding elsewhere on Maui. Here Michelle talks with top-tier travel and culinary writers about their impressions of Haiku House.