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Hawai‘i Island, Kauaʻi, Lānaʻi, Maui, Molokaʻi, Oʻahu, Travel Tips

Hawaii named “Best Value Destination”

The website SmarterTravel.com has just announced something we’ve known all along. Hawaii is currently the best value travel destination on the planet. SmarterTravel’s finalists for its 2010 Editors’ Choice best value destination award were Argentina, Australia, Hawaii, Las Vegas, and Mexico. Hawaii beat all the other contenders based on sales and deals. Said the site: […]

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Culture, Shopping

New iPhone apps help you speak Hawaiian language

For many visitors, Hawaiian place names can be difficult.  Just how do you a pronounce the name of a town that’s spelled Aiea? A road that’s named Kalanianaole? A valley called Hahaione? Now for 99 cents, you can begin to sound like a native Hawaiian language speaker with a new iPhone app called “Speak Hawaiian

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Food, Oʻahu

HAWAII Magazine picks: Six great dinners on Oahu

On vacation, many of us budget for at least one great dinner. You know, the kind that makes you feel you are really living—and sampling the best of the place you are visiting. Of all Hawai‘i locations, Honolulu has the richest supply of outstanding restaurants, many headed by award-winning chefs. If you’re looking for one

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Oʻahu, Travel Tips

Disney’s Hawaii Aulani Resort tops off construction

Aulani, the oceanfront Disney Resort & Spa under construction in Ko Olina in West Oahu, has reached a major construction milestone.  At the end of April, the resort “topped off.” That is, crews recently poured the last section of cement at the fifteenth floor of the resort’s buildings. That doesn’t mean the resort is done. 

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Oʻahu

The HAWAII Magazine Guide to Visiting Kailua, Oahu

HAWAII Magazine’s May/June 2010 cover feature takes you to Oahu’s relaxed beach town of Kailua, which boasts two of the best beaches not simply in Hawaii, but in the world.  Kailua Beach Park is a 2 1/2 mile white sand crescent, with restrooms, picnic tables, a concession stand and lifeguards. Next door, Lanikai Beach has

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Travel Tips

How to mail a coconut postcard from Hawaii. Seriously.

Reader Greg Wasserman e-mailed us with a surprisingly not-so-unusual question about sending a drupe postcard from the Islands to his friends back home: Correct me if I am wrong, but the article said one could mail coconuts from any post office in Hawaii. I will be visiting in May and would like to surprise some

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