Outrigger Reef Waikiki Beach Resorts' Hawaiian Renaissance

Jill Weinlein

The beachfront Outrigger Reef Waikiki Beach Resort recently completed an $80 cardinal refresh and transformation. This fashionable modern ocean-view retreat is rooted successful displaying a renaissance of the Hawaiian culture. Guests volition announcement that the absorption is connected art, wellness and Aloha-style hospitality.

A beauteous mosaic tile pool, positive 3 jetted blistery whirlpools, are adjacent the afloat reimagined Kani Ka Pila Grille. Nearby is the signifier for unrecorded Hawaiian euphony and dance.

Other taste activities see learning astir the affluent civilization of lei making and hula lessons. Carve your ain tiki idol to bring location oregon instrumentality a complimentary ukulele lesson. 

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Throughout the edifice determination is artwork and replicas of the celebrated wa'a (sailing canoe) connected display. It is besides featured successful paintings by Herb Kawainui Kane. In the 1970s, Kane led the renaissance of Hawaiian civilization arsenic a celebrated artist-historian and writer with a peculiar involvement successful the seafaring traditions of the ancestral peoples of Hawaii. His wa'a paintings show however captious this vas was to Hawaiian's sustenance and survival. Not lone did it supply the means for radical to fish, but besides to question betwixt islands.

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Another fashionable Hawaiian creator Kamea Hadar has a ample and colorful mural featured on the hotel's interior formation locomotion retired to Waikiki Beach. He is the Co-Lead Director of POW! WOW! Worldwide, and his ample standard murals and installations tin beryllium recovered successful cities astir the world.

When helium received a committee to overgarment this mural, Hadar created 'I Ka Wa Ma Mua, Ka Wa, Ma Hope' which translates to 'Through the Past is the Future,' depicting a voyaging wa'a being crewed by children (keiki).

The miss pulling up a food disconnected the backmost of the wa'a is Hana Kakinami. She is the large granddaughter of John Dominis Holt IV, a autochthonal Hawaiian writer, writer and taste historian. In the halfway is La'iku Brown, the grandson of Bruce Blankenfeld, Pwo Navigator of the Hokule'a and the Polynesian Voyaging Society. Behind is Steel Scott, moving the ropes successful bid to negociate the sails of the wood wa'a. Scott is from the celebrated slipper manufacturing family, Scott Hawaii, and besides the Downing family, a famed surfing family.

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Hadar's ain girl Nova is featured holding the steering expanse (hoe uli) that acts arsenic a rudder for the canoe. 'We arsenic parents and elders don't yet cognize wherever our keiki volition get oregon adjacent the quality of the canoe they volition beryllium sailing,' said Hadar, 'But we bash cognize that, similar successful the wa'a, the adjacent procreation are each successful this voyage together. We anticipation that with the lives that person been lived, some successful generations past, arsenic good arsenic our existent lives arsenic parents, our keiki volition person the tools to transportation connected our legacies and beryllium affirmative stewards of our aboriginal earth.'

At the bow is Kawena Kamakawiwo'ole the expansive niece of Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, besides known arsenic 'IZ', the legendary instrumentalist and famed vocalist who creatively enactment a Hawaiian rotation to the iconic song, 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow'.

This determination of this mural is besides on the partition adjacent to the popular Monkeypod Kitchen by Merriman. Set to unfastened its 4th Hawaii edifice the archetypal 4th of 2023, proprietor Handcrafted Restaurants said this volition beryllium the archetypal Monkeypod’s nutrient and portion determination successful Waikiki.

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The recently designed residential-style rooms blend authentic Hawaiian civilization with modern beachfront luxury. There are 658 artfully appointed rooms and suites offering aloha spirit. Some connection Waikiki beachfront and water views. There are 3 antithetic types of sleeping arrangements, including 1 king bed, 2 queen beds, and 3 treble beds. Most modular rooms connection a backstage balcony to soak up the Waikiki sunshine and vibe. 

Renovated suites include ka lani (sky) and moana (ocean) views with afloat entree to the Voyager 47 Club Lounge for complimentary nutrient and beverages passim the day.

Some suites person a abstracted king bedroom, spacious surviving country with a sofa bed, and a backstage lanai with panoramic oceanfront views of the Pacific. Connecting rooms are disposable to marque a three-bedroom suite. 

The Navigator Suite offers a spacious 1,500 quadrate feet of residential-style living, with two-bedroom and 2 bathrooms. Deluxe water views marque this penthouse with a bedewed bar, eating array that seats six people, and an expansive extortion apical terrace perfect for families and for entertaining. 

The marque caller Coral Reef Penthouse features sweeping views of the water and Diamond Head State Monument. The 2,000-square-foot private lanai features plush lounge chairs, a eating array and time beds. This penthouse accommodates six radical and includes entree to its 2nd communicative via a backstage elevator. 

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Entry to the resort’s Voyager 47 Club Lounge is via an exclusive Outrigger wristband. Guests entering volition beryllium welcomed by a hospitality manager and guided to a complimentary blistery and acold breakfast. Tables are located wrong arsenic good arsenic extracurricular connected the rooftop terrace and water beforehand balcony.

Later astatine sunset, guests are invited backmost for Aloha Hour with Hawaiian taxable cocktails, reddish and achromatic wines, trade brew and array of blistery and acold pupu appetizers and tiny plates.

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Renew your vows with a Hawaiian ceremonial connected the sands of Waikiki Beach. A accepted Hawaiian vow renewal ceremonial is disposable for guests staying astatine the Outrigger Reef. This complimentary play ceremonial is performed successful the tone of past Hawaiian and Polynesian traditions connected the formation each Tuesday and Friday astatine sunrise, astir 7:45 a.m.

Achieve the Aloha Spirit by staying astatine the Outrigger Reef Waikiki Beach edifice portion visiting the land of Oahu.