Moana Surfrider Westin

... , after popping in a few more coins into the meter, mom and I head over to The Banyan Court Beach Bar at the Moana Surfrider (Westin) for a drink. Mom gets the Mango Rita and I have a local (Maui) blonde lager. Totally hit the spot.  We enjoyed the ...

... strip of sand in front  of the resorts that make up the actual strip known here as Waikiki (Halekulani, Sheraton, Royal Hawaiian, Moana Surfrider) as the resorts practically sit in the water.  With a tiny strip of sand, there isn't much room for ...

... our hotel, which is in the middle of all of this!!! The hotel is gorgeous!  We are staying at the Moana Surfrider, a Westin Resort.  It has a luxury plantation type look to it that is really hard to explain.   Huge round, ...

... was straight out of 'The Castle'. I was pleased to note that they were not staying at our hotel.   Our hotel, The Moana Surfrider Hotel is located right on the beach in Waikiki in a grand and beautiful old colonial building right dating back to ...

Yesterday morning we decided to rent a car and make the drive to Oahu's north shore.  We found a car rental place a couple of blocks from us and rented one for the day.  We left Waikiki around 9 in the morning, stopped at Hawaiian Fire to buy ...

This morning we were off to a much better start than yesterday!  When we woke up, we got ready to head out for our surfing lesson with Hawaiian Fire.  Leaving too little time for the breakfast buffet at our hotel (the line was ridiculous), ...

We got off to a rough start this morning after adjusting to the time change (gaining 5 hours = exhaustion since we hit the ground running) and having been overserved last night, and by overserved, I mean we only had 4 drinks over the course of ...