Going to Oahu for 5 days - please help with hotel - Tiki Travel

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Wed, Jan 20, 2010 8:17 PM I don't know if you are the resort types, the "Island Lifestyle" types, or true Tikiphiles. For the latter, I would recommend this modernist marvel: http://www.hawaiihotels.com/Main/Sub.cfm?ID=200&Ref=RKR ...but then it is THIS kinda stuff there that gets ME excited: ..oh, and their Don The Beachcomber restaurant The Hotel King Kamehameha is an oldie but a goody, you can tell by its 70s font. It is at the tip of Kailua Kona, the town: http://www.konabeachhotel.com/ Now this is not one of those fancy resorts with water park and Dolphin pool, but it has stuff like this: http://www.konabeachhotel.com/historical.htm "Prominently displayed in the lobby area of the King Kamehameha hotel in Kona, Hawaii, is a large and compelling mural painted by renowned artist Herb Kane. The mural depicts Kamehameha, dressed in a simple kapa wrap, in conversation with his son Liholiho, heir apparent who ruled as Kamehameha II." Here is a Herb Kane illustration of the little beach and temple in front of the hotel, in earlier times: "Ahu'ena Heiau: Reconstructed by King Kamehameha the Great between 1812-1813, the Ahu'ena Heiau is on the register of National Historic Landmarks as one of the most important of Hawaii's historic sites. In the heiau or ancient temple, the dominant temple image was of Kalaemoku, a chief deified for his healing of acute diseases. Carved upon Kalaemoku's helmet was a perched bird. Other images in the heiau were of ancestral gods with whom Kamehameha maintained close rapport for the benefit of his kingdom." This is how it looks today (note the bird!): THE Tiki temple to visit down the coast is of course: http://www.nps.gov/puho/index.htm Access it not from the official park entrance, but take a different road to the beach right next to it, and snorkel with the giant turtles to it. :)

I don't know if you are the resort types, the "Island Lifestyle" types, or true Tikiphiles. For the latter, I would recommend this modernist marvel:

http://www.hawaiihotels.com/Main/Sub.cfm?ID=200&Ref=RKR

...but then it is THIS kinda stuff there that gets ME excited:

..oh, and their Don The Beachcomber restaurant

The Hotel King Kamehameha is an oldie but a goody, you can tell by its 70s font.
It is at the tip of Kailua Kona, the town:

http://www.konabeachhotel.com/

Now this is not one of those fancy resorts with water park and Dolphin pool, but it has stuff like this:

http://www.konabeachhotel.com/historical.htm

"Prominently displayed in the lobby area of the King Kamehameha hotel in Kona, Hawaii, is a large and compelling mural painted by renowned artist Herb Kane. The mural depicts Kamehameha, dressed in a simple kapa wrap, in conversation with his son Liholiho, heir apparent who ruled as Kamehameha II."

Here is a Herb Kane illustration of the little beach and temple in front of the hotel, in earlier times:

"Ahu'ena Heiau:
Reconstructed by King Kamehameha the Great between 1812-1813, the Ahu'ena Heiau is on the register of National Historic Landmarks as one of the most important of Hawaii's historic sites. In the heiau or ancient temple, the dominant temple image was of Kalaemoku, a chief deified for his healing of acute diseases. Carved upon Kalaemoku's helmet was a perched bird. Other images in the heiau were of ancestral gods with whom Kamehameha maintained close rapport for the benefit of his kingdom."

This is how it looks today (note the bird!):

THE Tiki temple to visit down the coast is of course:
http://www.nps.gov/puho/index.htm

Access it not from the official park entrance, but take a different road to the beach right next to it, and snorkel with the giant turtles to it. :)

Post #505795 by bigbrotiki on Wed, Jan 20, 2010 8:17 PM