Aston Coral Reef Hotel Honolulu

Ok, I'll make it short this time. Lump it all together under one entry. We had a great time in and around Waikiki Beach for the 5 days we were there. Direct flight from Seattle, decent hotel (Aqua Waikiki Wave), sunny and upper 80's. Lots of Mai Tai's, which is a Tahitian word for "good". That's beyond doubt the word that entered my mind too, sitting outside of the Moana Surfrider Hotel watching the sun go down, slurping the golden drops. Sampling floofy drinks was our primary occupation, but...

Aloha!

So Groundhog Day for us, same date but this time we are in Hawaii. Our flight got in at 8:45am, 20hrs behind where we had just come from, something to get our heads around. We got a taxi to our hostel (by the way it was already 28 degrees at this point, lol) but we couldn't check in until 2, so we went for a wonder around Waikiki. It’s exactly like the TV and as I expected, palm trees, bright colour shirts, relaxed happy atmosphere, really nice.

Just a shame the sam...

I’m loving Hawaii!!! Had a fab nights sleep in my queen sized bed and a lovely lie in, to then stroll down to the beach and enjoy the glorious sunshine. It was a tough day but I think I worked the lilo well and participated in some hard exercise splashing around in the warm clear sea. I think it was only 30 today but felt a lot hotter sizzling on the beach. Sorry am I making any of you jealous?!? Hope your all ok in sunny England, lol!!
After dragging ourselves away from the beach wh...

So we got up bright and early to go to Pearl Harbour. It was about 30mins from where we are staying and on the way we had to pick up this rather large American who decided she must squeeze to the back seat of this small minibus. Quite entertaining. We arrived at the Harbour and before we were allowed any where we had to put our bags in storage, you know encase we were carrying a bomb. Funny thing is you can take everything out of your bag and carry it in.

Any how, apart from the $3 fee...

Another early start this morning but this time off to the Sea Life Park to swim with dolphins. It was awesome, brilliant, loved every minute!! They were 3 of us in a group and we had 2 dolphins. We were able to rub their bellies, feed them fish, we had a kiss and gave them a cuddle (you'll have to see the photos when I get home, there amazing!). The best bit by far, was having a dorsal ride. You float in the middle of the pool feet down and arms our and then the two dolphins come up along sid...

Well this is going to be so so brief, cos apart from me having a king size hangover and wanting to curl up and die we didn't really do too much.

After sending out an order for bread and crackers and taking a few paracetamols I mustered the strength to get myself down to the beach. Last day and all that had to be done, but thank god for sunglasses.

Still feeling minging and with a really early start tomorrow (got to get up at 5:30am to go to the airport) I had a plain non-greasy...

So......... our relaxation period in Hawaii begins........On Tuesday 13th January we were up at 4am (supposed to be 3:45am), we quickly put clothes on and headed down to check-out, lucky Vegas is 24/7. The flight for Hawaii left at 6am. We were exhausted from the last few late nights so some time out was great, even if it was on a very boring plane flight! Once we were in Hawaii we got soo excited to be in some warmer weather, it was a very nice day, about 25 degrees. We checked into our hote...

We are finally in Honolulu and in our hotel. The view from the plane as we flew in was breathtaking. I took several pictures of the island as our plane touched down. Brent found his way to the Aqua Waikiki Wave by recalling some of the streets he had been down before. We are in the heart of the city and there are people everywhere. There are lots of buildings surrounding us but we are on the 10th floor and can see Diamond Head and the ocean. Our room is clean and it has A/C! :) We walked up a...