Summer hasn’t even begun, but a number of air carriers are already looking to capitalize on fall travel plans, offering reduced fares for the autumn months. Continental Airlines is listing a $214 Los Angeles-Honolulu round-trip fare, tax included. Travel deal blog Airfare Watchdog first reported the rate and link to a search page on online […]
Honolulu’s Hawaii Theatre recently signed a 10-year lease renewal with chef Glenn Chu’s Indigo Restaurant. This is a big deal. Why? The two were prime movers in the restoration of Honolulu’s Chinatown and the creation of the Chinatown Arts District. An nonprofit organization saved the 1922 Hawaii Theatre from demolition and painstakingly restored it to
King Kamehameha Day was yesterday—June 11. It was a state holiday. Hawaiian royal societies held tradition-steeped ceremonies in the king’s honor. Schools were closed. State workers had the day off. Street parking was free. So why continue celebrating the holiday into the weekend? Well, we do love a good Saturday morning parade. The annual King
Planning to drive on your next Oahu visit? You should know you that as of July 1, 2009, it will be illegal to use mobile electronic devices such as iPhones, BlackBerrys, digital cameras and iPods while behind the wheel of an automobile on Oahu. The ban intends to reduce the number of traffic accidents linked
So this guy walks into a bar with a bottle of beer in a bag. The guy? Jack Joyce, one of the founders of Rogue Ales in Newport, Ore., who spends four months a year in Hawaii. The bar? Colin Nishida’s Side Street Inn in Honolulu, which has been featured on Anthony Bourdain’s Travel Channel
Here’s a deal for traveler’s seeking an affordable vacation on Oahu this summer, or a reasonably priced Waikiki escape right now. Ohana Hotels & Resorts is offering seriously low room rates at four of its Waikiki properties all summer, and through the fall. Nightly rates start at $79 at Ohana’s Waikiki West, $89 at the
Monday evening marks the return of the annual Lantern Floating Hawaii ceremony—one of Hawaii’s most visually breathtaking and poignant events. We attended last year’s event, at Honolulu’s Ala Moana Beach Park—along with 40,000 Hawaii residents and visitors. As you can see below in a slideshow of photos we took, the sunset ceremony is a sight
You ask. We answer. HAWAII Magazine reader Patricia Renze from New York, NY, writes: What’s the status of the International Market Place renovations in Waikiki? I have spent many a happy day walking around and talking with all of the vendors. I hope the project has been shelved, as I love the Market Place just
This week Oahu holds its biggest culinary festival. If 20 chefs and a dozen winemakers don’t whet your appetite for the fest, there’s also music, fashion and golf. Hawaii Food & Wine Paradise is a four-day culinary gala, held at west Oahu’s Ko Olina Resort and Waikiki’s Halekulani Hotel. The event kicks off Thursday, May
If you’re on Oahu, consider your summer reading list and backyard barbecue soundtrack complete. The Hawaii Book & Music Festival is happening Saturday and Sunday in Honolulu. Looking for a superabundance of literature and music created and published here in Hawaii, all in one location? We’d be hard pressed to think of a better place
Waikiki’s Halekulani hotel celebrated its 25th anniversary last weekend. The hotel is actually 102 years old, having begun life in 1907 as the Hau Tree Residential Hotel, a relatively modest establishment, a beachfront house and five bungalows. No, this is the 25th anniversary of the “new” Halekulani. By the 1980s, the hotel had grown, the
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
