Continental Airlines is offering round-trip airfare deals to the Islands from more than 20 Mainland cities through a sale dubbed Tropical breezes of Hawaii. Flights touch down on Oahu, Maui, Kauai and the Big Island. The special offer, which took effect this morning, includes roundtrip fares as low as $422 from Los Angeles to Hilo. […]
If you’ll be in the Islands over the Fourth of July weekend, there’s an excellent chance that you’ll be spending time in ocean waters. Before setting out for a swim, snorkeling among rainbow-colored tropical fish, or just bobbing about on waves by the beach, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration asks you to double-check your
You’ve stood on the edge of Waimea Canyon on Kauai. You’ve walked some of the newest land on the planet at the Big Island’s Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Perhaps you’ve even hiked to the top of Oahu’s world-famous Diamond Head Crater … twice. All cool stuff, to be sure. But have you built sandcastles on
Construction of Maui’s first airport hotel, tailored for both leisure and business travelers, is slated to begin next week in Kahului. A groundbreaking ceremony was held yesterday for Maui’s first Courtyard by Marriott, a four-story, 138-room hotel located near Kahului Airport and close to Maui’s business, commercial and governmental center. “With Kahului being Maui’s commercial
The Big Island’s luxe Four Seasons Resort Hualalai, which sustained tsunami-fueled damages and closed last month will reopen for guests this Sat., April 30. Flooding damaged 12 of the oceanfront resort’s 243 rooms, pushed sand from its beach father inland, jumbled landscaping and killed stretches of the South Kohala-area resort’s grass, said Four Seasons spokesman
Next spring, a Disney Cruise Line ship—complete with Donald Duck and nephew Huey on the stern and a Steamboat-Willie bow—will skim Hawaii’s waters for the first time. The Disney Wonder, a 964-foot ship that holds 2,700 guest passengers, will shove off from the Port of Los Angeles on April 29, 2012, bound for the Hawaiian
It’s not a coincidence that manoa, in Hawaiian, means “vast.” Not only is this lush valley on Oahu’s south shore immense in physical size — extending from the emerald peaks of the Koolau Mountains to the coral reefs off Waikiki — but its history, its culture, its people and its offerings are vast, too. A
There’s still much talk swirling in the national and international media about just how much of Hawaii is really open for business in the wake of last Friday’s tsunami-generated ocean surges, spawned by the Japan earthquake. So much talk, in fact, that Hawaii tourism officials and Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie took to issuing multiple media
Think you can squeeze in a week’s vacation in Hawaii between March and December? A new Continental Airlines promotion is touting round-trip airfare deals to Oahu and Maui from 15 U.S. Mainland cities, including New York, Chicago and Dallas. The fare deals, announced this week, are for travel to Kahului, Maui, and Honolulu, Oahu. Roundtrip
So you’re on Oahu, on vacation, and indulging in our incredibly diverse and delicious local dining scene. Chicken katsu. Macaroni salad. Hawaiian plate lunches (with laulau, kalua pig, lomi salmon, poi, haupia, etc.). Ahi and tako poke. Multiple stops at the garlic shrimp trucks. Malassadas. Lunchwagons. Want to burn some calories—so you can keep eating
Alaska Airlines has launched its new daily nonstop route between Bellingham, Wash., and Honolulu, Oahu, with a $149 limited-time one-way introductory airfare. The Seattle-based carrier, which first announced the new route last August, began daily service between the two cities last week. The $149 special fare is applicable for travel between Feb. 14 and June
The months between November and May are whale-watching season in Hawaii. Nearly 10,000 humpback whales make the long journey from the waters off southeastern Alaska to mate, give birth and nurse their calves in warm Hawaiian waters, where they are protected. They linger until late April or early May. They best way to see them
