Hawaii Experts! - Deb, Help!

[mickeysgal]

Well I found an idol which I thought was cool until bad luck happened.

Greg almost drowned while surfing
A giant spider was in the hotel room

Vincent Price showed up



it was sad and scary

Monkeyboy, that is such an amazing story, they should do a show about it.

 

[Galahad]

We loved Poipu. So many beaches, lots to see. There is the beach so named, but the next beach has something different, the next on up something different again. It was a good place to stay. Easy to drive to various things. The vegetation and terrain is not mountainous like the north shore, but it also rarely rained in the southern part of the island. A sprinkle here or there, but not the sustained rain like in the north. (But not the rainbows either)

No electricity last night (Ike visiting us here in the great corn flats) - so this is my first chance to reply.

Thanks. I read that the southern and western part of each island is dryer than the eastern and northern parts. Just started looking at some of the books recommended here. The big island looks pretty cool too. I like the idea of renting a jeep to mitigate some ambulation problems. DW and I are not the type to split up and do our own thing - we'd much rather do everything together. That often limits what we choose to do. But with a Jeep..... (We did the Fort Wilderness Segway tour at WDW a couple of weeks ago, with "all terain" Segways. It was very cool. Something tells me that all-terain doesn't mean all in this case.

 

[Deb in IA]

Sorry I missed this earlier.

We've only been to Hawaii twice, so I am hardly an expert. But our DD just informed us that she wants to go to Hawaii for her graduation trip next year (she graduates from high school, and I told her that she could decide our summer trip).

Our first trip to Hawaii was for our honeymoon. We stayed at a timeshare called The Makai Club in Princeville, on Kauai. It was beautiful. http://www.timesharegateway.com/timeshare-resorts/The-Makai-Club-at-Princeville.html
We were there in September, and I don't remember too much rain. Some of the places we went to included Waimea Canyon, the Fern Grotto, and the Na'Pali coast, which you will recognize from many movies filmed there, including Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, etc. Also the beach where Mitzi Gaynor sang "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair" from South Pacific is on Kauai. We also took a helicopter tour, which I loved, but made DH sick. If you go during the winter, you can take a catamaran out and see the whales as they migrate past Kauai. Otherwise, you can still go out and see bottle-nose dolphins and take a snorkel tour.

Our only other trip was about 15 years ago, and we went to Oahu and Maui. On Oahu, the Royal Hawaiian is a nice place to stay. It was the first hotel to open on Waikiki Beach, and is still unmistakable as the "Pink Palace of the Pacific". It is currently undergoing a major renovation, and is scheduled to open January 1, 2009.

We visited Pearl Harbor, climbed Diamond Head, and visited the Dole Plantation. We caught an inter-island flight to Maui, where we stayed at Sheraton on Kaanapali Beach. We spent one day driving the Hana Highway, but mostly just relaxed on the beach - this was after DH ran the Honululu Marathon.

We are thinking about the doing the 7 day NCL Hawaii cruise. My in-laws went on this a few years ago, and really enjoyed it.

Have a great time!

 

[Galahad]

Sorry I missed this earlier.

We've only been to Hawaii twice, so I am hardly an expert.

Ah, I somehow thought you had been several times. Didn't you have a tag once about waiting for your next Hawaii trip? .

Anyway, thanks!

 

[Deb in IA]

Wishful thinking, I'm afraid!