What you see at Waikoloa Beach Resort today — bustling hotels, shopping centers, golf courses, entertainment and cultural centers, dining options of all kinds — was merely a vision back in 1968, when developers began planning how they would bring…
Lehua Alapa`i can trace her family’s history on the land just south of Waikoloa Beach Resort back almost 2,000 years. “Pretty much from 900 AD on, 18-plus generations lived there,” she says. “My aunties have it all written down and…
Just as Hawai`i is so much more than awe-inspiring sunsets draped upon dramatic landscapes, Waikoloa Beach Resort is more than its luxury hotels, dreamy beaches, tempting restaurants and shopping centers. If you want to delve deeper in the area’s history,…
Juicy mangos and ripe avocados the size of softballs grow wild! Enormous banana bunches hang from trees. Exotic fruits such as rambutan, lychee, dragonfruit, papaya and star fruit are plentiful. The largest tree fruit in the world, jackfruit, grows like…
Most family vacations require little more than a swimming pool to please the kids. But add dreamy sunsets, dolphin encounters, unlimited shopping, long stretches of white-sand beach, golf and a warm ocean, and you get a vacation the entire family…
Hilton Waikoloa Village Completes First Phase of Major Renovation When the Hyatt Regency Waikoloa first opened its doors in 1988 as part of the Waikoloa Beach Resort, the sprawling 1,240-room resort was the most expensive hotel ever built in the…
Looking back over the past four decades At many vacation destinations, hotels and timeshares compete on who can sell the most room nights or achieve the highest RevPAR for the quarter. Not so on Hawai`i Island’s Kohala Coast, where representatives…
The Hawai`i Keiki Museum at the Kings' Shops Aspiring to make learning fun, The Hawai`i Keiki Museum (HKM) allows children to learn about island science through hands-on experiences at a new interactive discovery center that opened at Kings’ Shops in…
Each evening at sunset, visitors and locals alike line the beaches at Waikoloa Beach Resort for front row seats to watch as the brilliant hues of pink, orange, red and gold fill the sky. Just before the sun dips below…
Celebrating UCPA of Hawai`i’s 65th anniversary `A`ohe hana nui ke alu `ia — No task is too big when done together by all. A rubber duckie race sounds so … frivolous … on the surface. But considering all the good…