Post #718727 by TikiTacky on Fri, May 30, 2014 1:26 PM

Name:Hilton Hawaiian Village
Type:hotel
Street:
City:Waikiki
State:HI
Zip:
country:USA
Phone:
Status:operational

Description:
I couldn't find an entry for this place doing a search. Did a just miss it, or is it an oversight? This place has a little fame due to the custom ceramics made for them by Terra Ceramics, but that's about all I know.

Edit: Turns out Wikipedia has an entry for them. Here's a little info to start:
"Located on the Hawaiian island of O'ahu, it was built on the former village of Kalia, which was the childhood home of Duke Kahanamoku. It consisted of a private estate with an owners' residence, tenant houses and a salt flat. The portion of the estate nearest the ocean beach was developed around 1900 as a small hotel named the Old Waikiki, then redeveloped in 1928 as the Niumalu Hotel.

The Village was conceived, constructed and first administered by Henry J. Kaiser, the industrialist who built the Hoover Dam and Grand Coulee Dam and founded the Kaiser Permanente health system. Kaiser bought the Kalia estate of 16 acres (6.5 ha) and combined it to construct the Hawaiian Village, converting the flat to a lagoon. Hilton Hotels & Resorts bought the resort in 1961.[1]

Today, the Hawaiian Village Hotel sits on over 22 acres (8.9 ha) of beachfront property, near the Ala Moana Center. It features the largest swimming pool in Waikiki, over twenty-two restaurants, exotic wildlife, and botanical gardens, Duke's Lagoon and a branch of the Bishop Museum."

[ Edited by: TikiTacky 2014-05-30 13:27 ]

[ Edited by: TikiTacky 2014-05-30 13:29 ]