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The Bliss List

Morimoto Asia is Waikiki’s hottest new restaurant

  Seated on the veranda of the newly opened Morimoto Asia Waikiki, I have an hour until sunset and an unrivaled view of Waikiki Beach. On the corner of Kalakaua Avenue and Liliuokalani Avenue, the restaurant, spearheaded by “Iron Chef” Masaharu Morimoto, is the Alohilani Resort Waikiki Beach’s premier dining experience. An over­easy egg, which

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The impressive Four Seasons Lanai airport lounge in Honolulu

If you didn’t know what you were looking for, you’d miss it completely. I’m talking about the Four Seasons Resort Lanai’s guest lounge in the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu. The luxuriously posh lounge is tucked between gates 24 and 25 in the Oahu airport, adjacent to a large, colorful mural. The lounge is

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The roomiest rooms at Maui’s Westin Nanea Ocean Villas

It was bigger than my Honolulu apartment. Three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a living-dining room, kitchen and a lanai (patio). This is the Westin Nanea Ocean Villas, located in Maui’s beautiful and luxurious Kaanapali. There’s room to relax everywhere at Westin Nanea, from the rooms to the swimming pool and wandering the manicured grounds that lead

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This Wailea hillside chateaux is your new favorite hideaway

For another side of Wailea—an experience further removed from the luxury resorts strung together like priceless pearls on Wailea Beach—Hotel Wailea, Relais & Châteaux is an oasis in the hills where you can stretch out with the same degree of splendor and sophistication. Aspen-level lodge vibes greet you the moment you step into its swoon-worthy

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Sleep on the rim of an active volcano at Volcano House

Rust-colored with a clapboard exterior, baseboard radiators and cozy furniture, the Volcano House is more ski lodge than sunny resort, defying typical Hawaii hotel expectations. Yet its superlative location, overlooking the park’s molten lava lake within Halemaumau Crater, is quintessentially Hawaiian. At 4,000 feet and surrounded on three sides by rain forests filled with 10-foot-tall

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