Honolulu travel tips and stories. Vacations ideas, cruises spa and resorts

The Waikiki Edition Hotel, which opened in October 2010 and marks the debut of the Edition brand, is mercifully free of the ironic gestures and tongue-in-cheek moves. This highly stylized hotel function as a “home away from home” for leisure and business travelers. In addition, it will also cater to the modern day business traveler by offering functional, technologically sophisticated working environments with the comfort and ease of actually conducting business in an “office away from the office”. The Waikiki EDITION is set in its own private oasis within walking distance to Waikiki’s celebrated surfer’s beach, marina and world-class shopping district.

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Five miles of pristine beaches and 12 miles of ocean trails await you. Turtle Bay Resort is located less than an hour away from Honolulu and only a few minutes from The Polynesian Cultural Center. The resort features two lushly landscaped pools, two championship golf courses, ten tennis courts, horseback riding, hiking and mountain bike trails, a surfing school, world-class dining and shopping. Famous landmarks include Sunset Beach, Banzai Pipeline and Waimea Falls Park, all of which lie within five miles of the resort.

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The Aqua Aloha Surf and Spa is located three blocks from Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii. The hotel a hip budget boutique hotel located 2 blocks to the beach and steps from world class dining and shopping.

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Feel like a trip to London and Paris? You will find both on Kiritimati in mid-Pacific, also known as Christmas Island (Captain Cook arrived on 24 December 1777, in ‘naming’ mood). The world’s largest coral atoll extends to a substantial 640 sq km and makes up 70 per cent of the land area in the scattered island republic of Kiribati. Its villages are London, Tabwakea, Banana, Poland and Paris (now sadly in ruins). And no you don’t have to take a Geiger counter – the radiation from Britain’s 1950s H-bomb tests on Maiden Island, 32o km south of Kiritimati, has long dissipated on the four winds.

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Today if you think of design for sure you will miss Honolulu. But when it comes to modern architecture in 1950s and 60s all eyes were on Hawaii‘s capital city. The building there have highly influence of some kind of ”tropical modernism”. So I would say that the modern architecture is everywhere these days, even in a place like Honolulu.

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Halekulani is acknowledged as one of Hawaii‘s most luxurious hotels. Set on five oceanfront acres on the Honolulu end of Waikiki Beach, within walking distance of shops, recreation, restaurants, and Honolulu nightlife. Halekulani means “house befitting heaven,” an apt choice as 90% of the guestrooms face the Pacific and Diamond Head. The hotel is an oasis famous for gracious hospitality, exemplary cuisine, and prompt, polished service.

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The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands are a group of atolls and reefs in Micronesia, about half-way between Hawaii and Australia. Located north of Nauru and Kiribati, these beautiful islands are a collection of 1,225 islands and islets of which only five are single islands. The rest are grouped into 29 coral atolls which together make up more than one-tenth of all the atolls in the world resembling strings of pearls in a blue ocean backdrop.

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Qantas – Australian airlane has create Qantas First Lounges in Sydney and Melbourne, international airports.

Sydney and Melbourne International Terminals Welcomed first class customers now in the airlane’s new Class lounges in both cities. The clients can experience a range of luxuries from chair-side waiter service to complimentary spa treatments in the airline’s lounges.

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