The Royal Hawaiian Center is not only Honolulu’s premiere shopping center, but also offers a lot of free cultural activities for locals and tourists alike. Located in the heart of Waikiki, it offers over 100 stores and eateries that are convenient to get to.

Christmas Car Rentals
While it may seem a bit early to be thinking about Christmas, you should know that the car rental companies have already reported that there are NO rentals available for the week of Christmas, except on the island of Oahu.  So, if you are planning an outer-island Christmas vacation, you may not be […]

Kona Coffee
While Kona Coffee is recognized throughout the world as an exceptionally smooth drink, Hawaii offers more than just the famous Kona Coffee. In the last 20 years, more and more growers have turned to coffee to replace pineapple and sugar cane as cash crops. Hawaii has the unique growing conditions that coffee plants thrive […]

Some of the efforts underway to restore and preserve the many islets that surround the major Hawaiian islands and the endemic and indigenous species.

Planning a Hawaiian vacation? Make sure to include a helicopter flight to your list of things to do. Only from the air will you be able to thoroughly see and experience such things as fiery volcanoes, plunging waterfalls, sheer sea cliffs, spouting whales, and lush rainforests. And you’ll do it in less than 60 minutes.

Author: Blake Cole
Kona coffee from the Kona region of the Island of Hawaii is a preferred choice all around the planet, and for great cause. It offers a robust, full bodied flavor that you can’t unearth in any other coffee. Kona coffee is produced on the Island of Hawaii, also recognized as the Big Island. […]

Twenty or thirty years ago, “fine dining in Hawaii” would have probably been considered an oxy-moron.  The only images of eating in Hawaii was of poi served at a luau or the ever present Spam.  However,  fine dining in Waikiki has become as commonplace today as it was lacking back then.  Its a melding of […]

The Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company, better known as HC&S, is the last surviving sugar plantation in Hawaii.   Located on the island of Maui, it was the first business venture of Alexander & Baldwin, in 1869.  That’s when boyhood friends, Samuel Alexander and Henry Baldwin, purchased 12 acres and after adding another 559 acres, […]