*Editor’s Note: This sale has ended. There’s a lot happening on Friday, Dec. 20 with Alaska Airlines. The Seattle-based carrier is giving priority seating to anyone wearing a holiday sweater on Alaska Airlines or Horizon Air flights all day today—National Ugly Sweater Day. And now, it’s offering a BOGO deal that’s spreading even more holiday […]
Good news for the Big Island of Hawaii and its east side city by the bay. Continental Airlines will begin offering the first major carrier daily nonstop flights from the U.S. Mainland to Hilo in more than a quarter century, beginning June 2011. Continental announced this week that it would be adding a daily nonstop
The USS Arizona Memorial Visitor Center was sinking slowly into the waters of Oahu’s Pearl Harbor. Not the actual USS Arizona Memorial, which since its 1962 dedication has rested solemnly in the middle of the harbor above the sunken hull of the famed World War II battleship. But the 30-year-old visitor center on the shores
One-way flights between California and Maui for $139? Round-trip flights between Seattle and Oahu as low as $318? If you can squeeze in a pre-Christmas, pre-New Year holiday vacation in Hawaii, Hawaiian Airlines and Alaska Airlines are posting flight deals you should know about. But you’ll have to book right away. Here are the deals
Hawaii’s big waves of November aren’t here just yet. But that won’t stop the 28th annual Vans Triple Crown of Surfing from kicking off its official holding period today on Oahu’s North Shore. The 38-day, six-event professional surfing competition (three for men, three for women), is the surf world’s most prestigious annual contest. It’s also
The state’s most popular hiking trail is curbing its weekday hours of operation for much-needed improvements, while two other iconic Hawaii scenic trails reopen this month after extended closures. The Hawaii State Parks Division this week began limiting weekday public access of the Diamond Head Crater Summit Trail to 6 a.m. to noon, Monday-Friday. The
Is a Hawaii vacation part of your fall or winter plans? If you like this flight deal you could be getting warm here before it gets too cold wherever you are. Alaska Airlines’ limited time “Hawaii Is Now” airfare sale is offering one-way flights between three Hawaiian Islands and six mainland west coast cities the
Brian Ross’s fine-art photography has been exhibited in galleries nationwide. Ross is the creator of Photo Safari Hawaii, which offers photography adventures on Kauai, Oahu, Maui and the Big Island. His students learn techniques of fine-arts photography as they visit some of the most photogenic natural scenes in the Islands. The following are some tips
The fate of the Waikiki Natatorium War Memorial—the aging salt-water public swimming pool and standing war monument—grows more dubious by the day. Last week, a task force appointed by Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann voted 9-3 to demolish the natatorium’s dilapidated pool and façade, and relocate the memorial’s iconic Beaux Arts-style entrance arch to nearby Kapiolani
laska Airlines, which launched daily nonstop flights between Portland, Oregon, and Oahu yesterday, will also begin seasonal nonstop service between Portland and Kona on the Big Island on Nov. 12. The good news for fall and winter Hawaii travelers flying or connecting from Portland? Introductory airfare deals for both routes. Alaska Air’s daily Portland-Oahu route
First, Hawaiian Airlines struck a deal with CBS to premiere the network’s redux of Hawaii Five-0 on the carrier’s U.S. Mainland-Hawaii flights all this month, before the rest of the country got to see it tonight. Then, at last week’s Five-0 beach premiere in Waikiki, we scoped a prominently placed Hawaiian Airlines jet in the
“Please tell me you are not waking up before the crack of dawn to do a story about sunrise on Haleakala,” warned a friend who lives on Maui. I wasn’t, but I knew why my friend objected. Day to day, Haleakala’s sunrises are every bit as stunning as one might expect of a place whose
