Settling Down for the Night in Waikiki
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canyonwalkerHawaii April Travelog #2
Waikiki, Honolulu, HI - Fri, 8 Apr, 2022, 11pm
Our trip to Hawaii was mostly uneventful, just long. Flying to Hawaii from California is as long as flying to New York. The flight was 5½ hours. It wasn't bad, it was just a bit long. Fortunately I had wifi for part of the trip and napped for an hour at the end. It's a time change of 3 hours to Hawaii, so our 8pm-ish arrival felt like 11pm already.
We picked up our rental car. We had a choice of 7 or 8 convertibles in the garage. There were a few Mustangs and several Camaros. Two of the Camaros were SS models— meaning big engines. I was about to grab one of those, planning to have some zoom-zoom fun this week, but then I remembered that the Camaro convertible has a comically small trunk. We took a more practical Mustang instead.
It was an easy drive in late evening traffic to Waikiki, where we pulled up to the Holiday Inn Express Hotel.
The hotel's tall format and our assigned room on the 36th floor gave us hope of a good view. Alas, it's a view back over the city, not toward the beach. And the room is comically small.
Like seriously, if you walk in the door too fast you'll bang your shin on the bed. "This is like Japan," Hawk quipped. "Yeah, or New York City," I added. Though the small rooms I've gotten in NYC at least had a desk. This one just has that blue thing.
The room's disappointing. The lack of space is really going to cramp us. There's no balcony and the windows don't even open, so we can't even enjoy fresh air. In the Hyatt we stayed at in December we had a much larger room and a balcony. I'd say we can't complain as we're getting this one on frequent flyer points (actually their kin, free night certificates)... but we stayed at that Hyatt on points, too.
Waikiki, Honolulu, HI - Fri, 8 Apr, 2022, 11pm
Our trip to Hawaii was mostly uneventful, just long. Flying to Hawaii from California is as long as flying to New York. The flight was 5½ hours. It wasn't bad, it was just a bit long. Fortunately I had wifi for part of the trip and napped for an hour at the end. It's a time change of 3 hours to Hawaii, so our 8pm-ish arrival felt like 11pm already.
We picked up our rental car. We had a choice of 7 or 8 convertibles in the garage. There were a few Mustangs and several Camaros. Two of the Camaros were SS models— meaning big engines. I was about to grab one of those, planning to have some zoom-zoom fun this week, but then I remembered that the Camaro convertible has a comically small trunk. We took a more practical Mustang instead.
It was an easy drive in late evening traffic to Waikiki, where we pulled up to the Holiday Inn Express Hotel.
The hotel's tall format and our assigned room on the 36th floor gave us hope of a good view. Alas, it's a view back over the city, not toward the beach. And the room is comically small.
Like seriously, if you walk in the door too fast you'll bang your shin on the bed. "This is like Japan," Hawk quipped. "Yeah, or New York City," I added. Though the small rooms I've gotten in NYC at least had a desk. This one just has that blue thing.
The room's disappointing. The lack of space is really going to cramp us. There's no balcony and the windows don't even open, so we can't even enjoy fresh air. In the Hyatt we stayed at in December we had a much larger room and a balcony. I'd say we can't complain as we're getting this one on frequent flyer points (actually their kin, free night certificates)... but we stayed at that Hyatt on points, too.
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