The photos you see here nearly wound up in a Honolulu landfill. Along with 800 other turn-of-the-20th-century glass plate photos of the Kingdom of Hawaii taken by Bertram Gabriel Bellinghausen, they were marked for trash collectors by a Honolulu private school in 1964 before someone wisely saved them. Bellinghausen was a young Marianist brother from […]
Big Island luxe resort The Fairmont Orchid, Hawaii is offering two rooms for the price of one. Yeah, you read that right. How can you qualify? Just book a room at the Fairmont Resorts property from now to June 30, 2009 for travel until December 20, 2009 and get the second free. It’s that simple.
Where’s your favorite place to stay on Kauai? The best place for shopping on Maui? Your favorite Hawaii spa to get away from it all? Got a favorite town on the Big Island? We ask these questions—and many more—on the ballot for our annual Best of Hawaii feature. Results will be featured in the upcoming
You ask. We answer. HAWAII Magazine reader Edd Kogan of Oak Ridge, Tenn. writes: Where I can view and purchase the 2009 Merrie Monarch Festival poster online? I collect them, and used to get them at a store in Hilo. While this year’s edition of the annual Big Island of Hawaii hula festival is over,
Celebrities and power brokers looking to get away from it all on their Hawaii holiday have long loved the Kona Village Resort. The reasons for the ardor are many: the resort’s secluded location on the Big Island’s Kona coast, unique beachfront Polynesian-style thatched-roof bungalows, wealth of ocean activities, lack of in-room TVs and A/C, and
This year’s Merrie Monarch Festival has come to a conclusion. Ke Kai O Kahiki walked away with the big prize of top hula halau. The Oahu halau (troupe) won the festival’s overall honor Saturday night thanks to a strong showing in the men’s categories. They won the men’s kahiko (traditional) competition with one of the
During Merrie Monarch, you can hardly get a hotel room or a rental car in Hilo, the Big Island’s biggest city. The rest of year? Hilo’s awfully quiet. Visitors prefer the sun-drenched resorts of the Kona Coast to the sometimes damp environs of the Big Island’s lush windward coast. But Hilo’s a real town, surprisingly
The 46th annual Merrie Monarch Festival kicks off tonight. For many hula halau (troupes), the festival is their Super Bowl. They spend much of the year practicing and preparing for this weekend. Hundreds of dancers from around the world congregate to Edith Kanakaole Stadium in the Big Island town of Hilo for a weekend filled
The good news was that there was no damage from yesterday’s 5.0 Big Island quake, though the island got a healthy shake. Reactions varied. One of our friends on the Big Island was driving and didn’t feel it. Another was in her home office while her husband was engaged in a do-it-yourself project. She ordered
This weekend the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel celebrated its reopening after a $150 million renovation, with not one but two nights of parties. The elegant first night featured dignitaries, including former vice president Dan Quayle, speeches, and the traditional Japanese ceremony of breaking open a taru (wooden sake barrel). Not to mention a concert by
UPDATE, 3/30/2009: Kilauea: Mountain of Fire is now viewable online, in its entirety. Click here to watch. If you can’t go the Big Island of Hawaii to see the current eruptive activity at Kilauea volcano in person, a new documentary airing this weekend on PBS might be the next best thing. Producers of Kilauea: Mountain
The Mauna Kea Beach Hotel got a glorious day for its official reopening, sunshiny, 79 degrees, with pleasant trades. Things are quiet here in the hotel lobby. Everyone seems to be down enjoying the hotel’s most prominent amenity, its crescent white sand beach. Things will light up tonight with a “Cuisines of the World” food
