This is a story about a day on Maui I set aside to do nothing but relax. Over four days, I’d been on 34 ziplines, from the slopes of Haleakala to the West Maui Mountains, all for this magazine. It was seriously fun. But, in the end, it was, well, exhausting. I’d yet to spend […]
The website SmarterTravel.com has just announced something we’ve known all along. Hawaii is currently the best value travel destination on the planet. SmarterTravel’s finalists for its 2010 Editors’ Choice best value destination award were Argentina, Australia, Hawaii, Las Vegas, and Mexico. Hawaii beat all the other contenders based on sales and deals. Said the site:
After four days, my count stood at 34 ziplines—every zipline on the island of Maui. I’d taken a ride on all of ‘em. It was a challenge I’d been anxious to take on. Two years ago, I’d first strapped myself into a harness, clipped to a pulley and zoomed down on a steel cable through
Aulani, the oceanfront Disney Resort & Spa under construction in Ko Olina in West Oahu, has reached a major construction milestone. At the end of April, the resort “topped off.” That is, crews recently poured the last section of cement at the fifteenth floor of the resort’s buildings. That doesn’t mean the resort is done.
In the May/June 2010 issue of HAWAII Magazine, we take you with us on a visit to the beaches, offshore islands, cultural sites, scenery and overall outdoor nirvana of the Windward Oahu town of Kailua. Recently, editor John Heckathorn and photographer David Croxford ducked away from the rest of us at HAWAII Magazine’s downtown Honolulu
Alaska Airlines announced today that it will add daily a nonstop flight between Portland, Oregon, and Honolulu to its ever-expanding U.S. West Coast-Hawaii flight schedule, beginning Sept. 20. Flight times for the new route are: • Portland, Ore. – Honolulu, Oahu Departure: 7:25 a.m. (West Coast time)Arrival: 10:25 a.m. (Hawaii time) • Honolulu, Oahu –
The National Park Service this week shut down all boat tours to the USS Arizona Memorial thorough April 14 to facilitate ongoing construction on the memorial’s new visitor center. The popular boat tours, which escort more than 4,000 visitors each day from the visitor center to the Pearl Harbor-berthed memorial, are being suspended to finish
The Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa will begin construction on two new vacation timeshare towers in 2013, launching an aggressive expansion that will add 550 units to the resort’s timeshare holdings by the end of the decade. Hilton Worldwide officials announced the multi-tower expansion plan this week, along with plans to redevelop the
Reader Linda McMahon e-mailed us with a question about one of Hawaii’s most iconic resorts: Are there any plans to reopen the Coco Palms as a hotel or any other facility available to the public? Is it possible to walk in the coconut palm grove behind the former resort? You ask, we answer. The future
A room at the Ala Moana Hotel in Honolulu for $40 a night? If you can put together plans within the next couple of weeks for a three- to five-night Hawaii vacation on Oahu between April 22 and May 31, you could get a $40 per night room rate at the hotel for your entire
HAWAII Magazine’s March/April 2010 cover feature unveils our “20 Things To Love About Hawaii Right Now.” We’ve devoted several pages of write-ups and photography to Hawaii things our staff is currently fascinated with. Catamaran rides from Maui to Lanai to snorkel in Hulopoe Bay’s clear blue waters. A trio of classic Hawaii hotels, newly remade.
Reader Greg Wasserman e-mailed us with a surprisingly not-so-unusual question about sending a drupe postcard from the Islands to his friends back home: Correct me if I am wrong, but the article said one could mail coconuts from any post office in Hawaii. I will be visiting in May and would like to surprise some
