Want to be among the first guests at Disney’s Aulani Resort & Spa when its first phase opens on Aug. 29, 2011? Walt Disney Parks & Resorts will begin accepting reservations for its first Hawaii hotel/timeshare property on Aug. 2, more than a year out from the resort’s opening date. The 360 hotel room/481 multi-bedroom […]
The Volcano House hotel has been been open, in one form or another, since 1846, when the first grass house was built on the rim of Kilauea Crater. The first wooden structure went up in 1877—long before Hawaii Volcanoes National Park was even established on the Big Island in 1916—with a stone hearth dedicated to
King Kamehameha Day is this Friday, June 11. It’s a state holiday, honoring King Kamehameha the Great, who unified the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1810 and was its first monarch. Ceremonies statewide will pay tribute to the king’s legacy with lei draping of Kamehameha statues on Oahu and the Big Island, parades and other cultural
The native plants and wildlife of Hawaii’s rainforests will soon be found on letters and packages circling the globe. That is, at least on the U.S. postage stamped on that mail. In September, the newest stamp pane in the United States Postal Service’s Nature of America Series will feature a painting of a Hawaiian rainforest
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:
London. Paris. San Francisco. Florence. Austin. The Big Island of Hawaii. The latest episode of Travel Channel’s Samantha Brown’s Great Weekends—airing Saturday at 10 p.m. (Eastern and Pacific), 7 p.m. (Hawaii)—is showcasing as much of the Big Island of Hawaii’s charms as its über-cheerful, ever-game host could squeeze into one hour of television, and three
Drive a car up to the entrance gate of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and it’ll cost you just $10 to explore the massive Big Island park for the next seven days. Same goes for Haleakala National Park on Maui, except you get three days for your ten bucks. It’s a great value. You, and as
The 47th annual Merrie Monarch Festival kicks off tonight in Hilo. Tickets for the world’s premier hula contest are sold out. But hula aficionados who can’t make it to the Big Island festival can still watch the competition live from around the world on the web, or in high-definition television here in Hawaii. Hawaii TV
HAWAII Magazine’s March/April 2010 cover feature unveils our “20 Things To Love About Hawaii Right Now.” We’ve devoted several pages of write-ups and photography to Hawaii things our staff is currently fascinated with. Catamaran rides from Maui to Lanai to snorkel in Hulopoe Bay’s clear blue waters. A trio of classic Hawaii hotels, newly remade.
Hawaii is the only U.S. state where coffee is grown. You’ll find coffee farms on five Hawaiian Islands—Maui, Molokai, Oahu, Kauai and the Big Island of Hawaii. But the Big Island lays claim to the Hawaii-grown bean that is one of the most in-demand and most expensive in the world. Kona coffee is that prized
The cover feature of HAWAII Magazine’s March/April 2010 issue is all about the “20 Things To Love About Hawaii Right Now.” Among the list of things we currently love here in the Islands, you’ll find our favorite place to see the Hawaiian night sky without a multimillion-dollar telescope. A Big Island of Hawaii ocean industrial
In HAWAII Magazine’s January/February 2010 issue feature article “Untouched Hawaii,” we took readers to four stunning little-known and rarely visited Hawaii landscapes that will remain forever as they have for eons: preserved and unspoiled. We share the story here with our online ohana. Much of Hawaii has been adapted for human habitation—towns, roads, farms, cities,
