Sorry not too many pictures on this point, just the tale of our last, very
disappointing night on Oahu
Everyone was having a good time on the ship. They were doing cups of margarita mix for 50 cents, but since Kris and I dont really drink we were laughing at some of the antics of our fellow passengers who were obviously started to become under the influence. As the boat was circling out in the water, a guy came up on a Ski-Doo and started talking to the captain. Apparently he is one of the guys that works on a lot of these types of boats in the area. As he is stopped by us suddenly one of the drunk women on our boat asks him for a ride. Our captain said, sure no problem, have a good time. So, the guy takes off with this girl on the back of his ski-doo. Side note, the captain did give her a life jacket before she got off the boat. This was weird to me, but I wasnt too upset yet. Kris was starting to get a little mad though because this was turning into a party night for some friends and not for the enjoyable cruise that we had all paid for that evening.
A few minutes later the ski-doo races back with a quick stop spraying most of us in the boat. The drunk girl climbs back into the boat giggling and then her friend proceeds to ask for a ride too. This time instead of taking her out further in the water the guy starting circling the boat spraying all of us in the process!
Now, we had out our video camera and regular camera, so I quickly duck and try to cover them with my body. This literally continues for 5 minutes and we were drenched. I swear the guy circled the boat 5 or 6 times. Our video camera ended up with some water on it (in the end it dried okay and works fine) but thankfully my body had shielded most of our electronics. Needless to say we no longer had these smiling faces that we had started with at the beginning of our cruise
Kris was fuming at this point v If we were close enough to shore I think he would have made us jump out and wade back to the beach. Unfortunately we were still pretty far out, so we had to sit there drenching on our ride back to the beach. The captain was joking and laughing and everyone on the boat who was intoxicated was having a good time, the few of us were not and were just there for the scenery were not happy at all.
When we got back to the beach we started to walk away and then Kris turned to go back to chew out the captain. I talked him out of it and said lets talk to the hotel to see what can be done. Normally, I wouldnt have cared but there were like four big guys hanging out with the captain at this point (including the idiot with the jet ski) and even though Kris is a bigger guy hes still pretty small (only like 58) so I didnt think he could take all these guys
We then went up to our room where we had to completely shower and change all of our clothes since we had been drenched. Kris called to the front desk and he told them that the boats are independently operated, so they gave him the phone number of our captain. Kris called that number immediately, but got voicemail and left a not too nice message requesting him to call back the next day
So, I will continue that story later.
We learned this lesson, never take these boats just on the beach. Spend the extra for one of the dinner cruises that you book in advance. I think the captains of these boats are people that can't hold a regular job, so they have no sense of how to properly do business.
Lets just say the night didnt get better after that incident. We walked a few blocks to this restaurant that people had said was good. It was a smorgasbord place and was packed with locals. It was super crowded and hard to find a clean table, plus the food was not good at all.
After that we walked around a little bit picking up some last minute souvenirs since this was our last night on Oahu. We were flying to Maui the next afternoon. We walked down and got some photos by Duke who was a famous surfer.
We got to our room and then started to pack up our stuff for our departure. We had still been falling into bed pretty early because of the time change and were getting ready for bed around 11 pm. Before I laid down I decided that I would never get any rest and couldnt take it any more; we could hear the word for word conversations of our neighbors plus they had music blasting in addition we could hear a baby screaming from across the hall.
Im not kidding each and every night there we had these noise issues and at this point I had it. The first two nights it was an older couple that was screaming now it was music blaring. Im assuming they have different building codes there because I swear there is no insulation between the walls. Im not talking about hearing muffled voices, you could repeat the entire conversations that people were having with each other.
I called the front desk demanding a different room
I told them that I couldnt take it anymore between the time difference and the noise from our neighbors I hadnt slept well the entire time we were at the hotel and we had a long day ahead of us tomorrow with our transfer to the other island. At first, they wanted to come tell our neighbors to quiet down. I said no, that wasnt going to help anything we could hear anything and everything going on with our neighbors. I asked to be moved since our stuff was already packed up for Maui I knew it wouldnt be that big of a deal.
I asked for a room without any neighbors on either side. At first he said he couldnt find any, but after a few minutes the desk clerk was able to find one in the entire hotel, but it was several floors down and had two queens. I said thats fine well take it. One catch was that he was working alone, so we had to come to the lobby to get the keys. I dragged Kris with me and we got the new keys. They then told us it would be about 20 minutes before the bellmen could move us. Just some of our luggage piled up:
By now, I was tired and getting more irritated by the minute after the evening we had just had there. When we got up to the room I said forget it were carrying everything ourselves. So, Kris and I proceeded to lug our three suitcases, souvenirs, carry-ons, purses, etc. all in one load. Our new room:
It was so peaceful in our new room and we collapsed on the bed relishing the soothing silence.
How exciting, you will hava blast! Which islands will you be visiting? I'm pretty sure we had the Deluxe Ali'i Luau and we added the transportation from Waikiki. Our tour bus guide ended up giving people the option of a guided tour with him, so I'm not sure that's standard procedure or not because I know the higher package automatically include the tour 
I'm curious to hear what happened, though!
