Post #605814 by Bill5925 on Wed, Sep 7, 2011 10:12 AM

On 2011-08-16 13:13, Koitiki wrote:
Even the hotel pools inexplicably close at 7pm. Gotta love the conversation I had with the pool staff. Me: "Why does the pool close at 7?" Staff: "It gets dark." (Not really until after 8, and the wonderful invention of electricity makes it possible to light thigs after dark!) Me: "What are the kids supposed to do?" (Even tho mine is a teen, there are a MILLION little kids here.) Staff: "Go shopping." Hahahaha.

I took my 75-year-old mother to Waikiki a couple of years ago. She was on chemotherapy drugs that made her very sensitive to cold, so she insisted that her hotel have a warm heated pool. She also likes a pool deep enough to swim in and that is open late enough to enjoy after dinner. And she doesn't tolerate children well. And it had to be affordable. I called nearly every hotel in Waikiki before finding the Ilima Hotel. It was a small pool, but warm, 6' deep and open to 9 or so. She was pleased.

Yeah, I told her the ocean was very comfortable in Hawaii, but she also has bad knees and can't walk well across sand or stand for very long in the surf.