I love a good hike. Fortunately a friend was visiting from out of town. She was skeptical that a solid hike exists in Honolulu. In the city’s defense I quickly pointed out you just need to head up. Up a hill, that is. That’s where you will find the Waahila Ridge Trail: a scenic footpath […]
The W Honolulu Diamond Head will get a name change on Friday when Starwood Hotels & Resorts Hawaii stops managing the 50-room boutique hotel on Waikiki’s Gold Coast. Management of Hawaii’s only W branded hotel will transfer to Castle Resorts & Hotels, which is renaming the property The Lotus at Diamond Head. What does this
So long, 2008! Time to say “Aloha!” to 2009. If you’re lucky enough to be in Hawaii tonight, consider our picks for the prime places to watch the sky light up with New Year’s Eve fireworks. OAHU • 7 p.m., Hawaiian Waters Adventure Park, 91-400 Farrington Highway, Kapolei, (808) 945-3928. • Midnight, JW Marriott Ihilani
This just in: some great airfare deals. The Los Angeles Times reports several carriers including Delta, Northwest and American Airlines are offering round-trip airfares from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to Honolulu (HNL), for as low as $334, including tax, for flights scheduled between January 5 and February 28, 2009. The rates can be found
The “aloha” greeting Pro Bowl players are welcomed with at 2009’s game will also mean goodbye. The National Football League’s annual all-star game, will not be played in Oahu’s Aloha Stadium—its home for the last 28 years—in 2010. NFL officials announced yesterday that the game is headed eastward for the sun, sand and endless neon
You ask. We answer. HawaiiMagazine.com reader Paul Krueger of Baltimore, Md., wrote asking if we could find any Web video of the Kailua home where president-elect Barack Obama and his family are spending the holidays. The Obamas have been vacationing in Hawaii with a small clutch of friends since Dec. 20. Their home away from
You’re on Oahu post-Christmas with a little bit of gift cash. The economy being what it is … do you save it, or spend it? “Recession, shmecession—all you need is a little retail therapy!” writes Honolulu-based writer Kathryn Drury Wagner in her new book, The Ultimate Guide to Shopping on Oahu. Wagner’s prose is sassy
President-elect Barack Obama attended a memorial for his late grandmother Madelyn Dunham yesterday afternoon, later scattering her ashes into the Oahu surf. Dunham, referred to as “Toot” by Obama, died of cancer in Honolulu at age 86, two days before her grandson was elected president. Obama was not able to attend Dunham’s funeral last November
Barack Obama is trading the snowstorms and wind chill of Chicago for a family Christmas in the frothy waves and warm sands of Kailua Beach. Jealous? We are too—and we live here. The Hawaii born-and-raised president-elect arrives at Honolulu International Airport on Saturday for a 10-day holiday with his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia, 10,
It’s that time of the year—when fierce winter winds blow, snow falls (even here in Hawaii) and Travel + Leisure Magazine’s globetrotting staff return from far better climes to bestow its annual gift to hotels, inns, resorts and lodges worldwide: a spot on the pub’s annual 500 World’s Best Hotels list. This year, 23 Hawaii
26 miles. 42.195 kilometers. Runners from all over the world are arriving to run that distance Sunday morning as the Honolulu Marathon fires the starting gun on its 36th year. This year’s marathon has attracted nearly 22,000 participants. That’s nowhere near the kind of record numbers that has made it one of the most popular
With the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor still fresh in the minds of Americans this week, President George W. Bush proclaimed nine historic sites in three states a unified national monument. A number of spots around the Pearl Harbor area are included, along with sites in California and Alaska. According to a White
