The Hawaii Superferry’s back. The ferry resumed interisland service today between Oahu and Maui—departing at 6:30 a.m. from Honolulu to Kahului, and returning at 11:15 a.m. from Kahului to Honolulu. A one-way trip between islands takes about four hours. Passenger fares one-way are $39, and $55 for passenger vehicles. Reservations may be made at the […]
ATA Airlines announced late Wednesday, Hawaii time, that it was shutting down nationwide passenger service. The airline had Hawaii routes from Oahu, Kauai, Maui and the Big Island to Los Angeles, Oakland, Las Vegas and Phoenix. If you are holding tickets for ATA flights, you can contact other airlines here. If you would like a
This is the Konan High School Brass Ensemble from Ashiya, Japan. It’s a rocking ensemble. Check out this clip of the band playing today in Bishop Square, downtown Honolulu, outside the HAWAII Magazine offices. Honolulu has become a crossroads for East and West, so it’s no surprise that Konan High does a yearly band exchange
When it’s a hot day on Oahu’s North Shore, I’d recommend cooling down with a fresh ice-cold coconut. On a road trip to the north shore town of Kahuku last weekend, I stopped at a roadside fruit stand just off Kamehameha Highway near Turtle Bay Resort. Travelers can find many of these roadside stands—offering coconuts
Wish you were here? Can’t blame you. Here’s almost the next best thing. We’ve collected links to a handful of Webcams around the state offering live views of our beaches and—well, pretty much just our beaches. Want to see the sun set over Hanalei Bay on Kauai? Click the Sheraton Princeville’s beach-roving camera below. Got
Aloha Airlines announced this morning it was shutting down passenger service—both interisland and transpacific. Its last day of passenger operations will be tomorrow, March 31, though many of its Hawaii-to-Mainland routes have their last flight today, Sunday. If you are holding tickets on Aloha past that date, you can contact other airlines, including United Airlines,
If you’re interested in Barack Obama’s Hawaii roots, take a look at this story by Honolulu-based AP writer Sudhin Thanawala. The AP story focuses on Obama’s years at Punahou—the private school founded in 1841 by missionaries. The AP article makes a great deal about how the school (yearly tuition $16,000) is elitist. To its credit,
Thought we’d share a couple of kid-friendly packages we recently found out about from the folks at the Big Island’s Mauna Lani Resort and ResortQuest Hawaii. The first is golf. Already home to a couple of top-ranked courses designed by Francis H. Ii Brown, the Mauna Lani resort recently opened a nine-hole golf course for
If HAWAII Magazine took your photo at the Arizona Aloha Festival, the pictures are now posted in our photo gallery. If you had your photo taken at the HAWAII Magazine booth on Saturday, click here. For Sunday photos, click here. The HAWAII Magazine team traveled more than a 1,000 miles to the Grand Canyon state.
One of the state’s signature cultural festivals kicks off in Honolulu this weekend. The annual Honolulu Festival is three days of music, art, dance, games, demonstrations and workshops aimed at spotlighting the cultures of Asia and the Pacific. Artisans from Japan, Australia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Tahiti, the U.S. Mainland and, of course, Hawaii are
If you’re in Phoenix, Ariz., this weekend, look for HAWAII Magazine at the Arizona Aloha Festival. Stop by our booth (near the marketplace stage) between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Our folks will sporting their brand-new “We’ve Got Issues” HAWAII Magazine T-shirts. They’ll be giving away freebies, and holding a drawing for a $500 gift
Just hitting news stands is the April issue of Golf Magazine, with its 20th anniversary list of premier golf resorts, picked with the help of 8,000 readers. Of the 75 resorts, Hawaii has nine. Top rated was the Four Seasons Resort Lana’i at Manele Bay, praised for its “pristine” golf experience. Also receiving honors was
