Entries tagged 'Hana'
Hawaii Hotels: Great Amateur Honeymoon Video Tour of Room at Hotel Hana Maui
Love this tour. Hope this lady gets very lucky on her honeymoon. This gives you a great idea of what the renovated rooms look like. Also love this hotel -- probably a top honeymoon choice for those who want...
Land of the Lotus Eaters: NYT Does Hana
Sigh. Yet another piece of writing about Hawaii from a Mainland journalist that, to be fair, hits many notes but also falls totally flat on others. For someone purportedly writing about the cultural side of Hana on Maui, you'd think...
Hawaii Beaches: Brouhaha at Hamoa Bay?
Maui Time Weekly (which is a really fun publication) reports that the Hotel Hana Maui, a venerable queen of the Hawaii hotel scene and the only high-end resort in the isolated, lush Hana district, is refusing to let people...
Hawaii Hotels: Child-Free Resorts in Hawaii -- Sorta Kinda
While most of the readers of Hawaiirama have families, some people want to go on kid-free vacations. Thus, the presence and popularity of resorts in the Caribbean where children are banned. Hawaii does not have any truly child-free resorts. But...
Hawaiirama Barack Obama Vacation Tours -- The Platinum Version
Ho, cuz! Barack got some kala! (That's money in Hawaii slang). So now that Barack has raised almost as much money as Hillary Clinton, me thinks he can afford a REAL NICE Hawaiian vacation at this point. Not that I...
Hawaii Beach Guides: Hamoa Bay
Ringed black-lava sea cliffs, Hamoa Bay near the remote town of Hana was a favorite of literary icons and Hawaii lovers Mark Twain and James Michener. It's easy to see why. The soft, dark sands of this gray crescent composed...
Earthquake Update: Ohelo Gulch, Pipiwai Reopened on Road to Hana
Right on schedule, Maui County opened a temporary bridge to replace the Paihi span damaged in the October 16 earthquake. This means waterfall fans can return to Ohelo Gulch (the tourist name for the place is Seven Sacred Pools though...
YouTube Hawaii Video of the Day: The Blue Pool on Maui
This waterfall was mostly popular with locals until recently. You do have to trek across private property to get there, though that doesn't seem to stop folks. Gee, I wonder why? ;) It is a surreal spot, with a...
Hawaii Travel: YouTube Vide of the Day
We've written about the Pipiwai Trail past Hana on Maui. It's currently closed due to quake damage to century-old bridges along the Hana Highway. But here's a taste of what it looks like to whet your waterfall whistle. Related...
Earthquake Update: Road to Hana to Reopen Dec. 1
According to the Maui County officials, a temporary replacement for the Paihi Bridge should be open by December 1, in time to allow Xmas season visitors to the Valley Isle to finish their Road to Hana journey with a dip...
YouTube for Travelers: Travelistic Hawaii
The folks over at Travelistic are churning out short videos that attempt to emulate the style of Web newscastlet Rocketboom and the pop culture phenom YouTube. Of course, bikinis are involved in a lot of the videos – you do...
Earthquake Update: Kipahulu, Ohelo Gulch Still Closed
Quick update on the situation for the Road to Hana on Maui, where FEMA and county officials have closed bridges on either side of the Kipahulu District Area in Haleakala National Park, the home to an extremely popular hike (the...
Earthquake Update: Road to Hana Hammered
The Honolulu Star-Bulletin is reporting that Maui County has shut a two-lane bridge just past Hana town but before the Seven Sacred Pools in Haleakala National Park, which is part of the park's the Kipahulu District. The county estimates...
Awesome Online Highway Guide
I was writing an article on driving the spectacular H-3 Interstate (Hawaii actually has three, all on Oahu) for a magazine and tooling around looking at images online when I stumbled across this site put together by Oscar Voss....
