Aloha, Bruce here again! Friday night we had an opportunity to stay at the Sheraton Waikiki and to tell you the truth, I really didn't know what to expect because it's been a while since I've actually stayed at the property. It's taken a while to get all of the renovations done and recently a friend of mine showed me one of the rooms on the lower floors and quite frankly I wasn't impressed probably because they weren't renovated yet. (Note to Sheraton management -- glad you are killing the extremely dated floral patterns). Of course when we checked in with got the same floor and I was very worried I was Going to experience the same exact thing and then have to give not such a great review of this property and have the Sheraton all mad at me. LOL! I can honestly say that they did any really great job with this hotel.

We had an oceanfront room and it really was just gorgeous and wit that view you really can't get much closer to the ocean.They have a few things they need to work on still. For example -there are not that many restaurants to eat at on the property. They're adding a couple but they haven't been finished yet. When we got there we were starving and the buffet which is the main restaurant downstairs didn't open until 5:30. I thought the buffet was excellent as far as buffets go. I know the hotel is opening a new restaurant bar, RumFire, which has a well-known chef from Hoku's at the Kahala Resort. That might be the place to go in the hotel (stay tuned ). The person who oversaw the redesign of these hotel rooms really needs to be commended. Caveat -- they are pretty tight rooms, narrow in many cases. But there is great utilization of space here with flat panel TVs, nice shelving options, and a nice modern color scheme that is muted but still somewhat beachy (perhaps a little bland but a vast improvement over the screamingly ugly floral prints that swallowed the whole room). Having read things about problems with lower floors, I was particularly worried but actually staying on the fourth floor was pretty good because the balconies are twice the size of the normal ones. You also get to hear the music from the pool downstairs which goes on till about 10:30 at night (note: if you like to sleep with lanai doors open, ask for a higher floor). Yaling (my wife) did a nice little video showing the room which you can see on our podcasts page http://www.hawaii-aloha.com/podcast
I would definitely recommend this property to all types of travelers staying in Waikiki. It’s worth the little extra money for an oceanfront property with an oceanfront rooms. When they have promotions on their oceanfront rooms they are really a steal.

I give the Sheraton Waikiki 4 Shakas! A hui hou from Bruce at Hawaii-Aloha.com!

—Bruce F., 01/03/08