Now that we have experienced a part of the Big Island, I thought it would be fun to create an itinerary for a future trip. How would my trip look, if I were to do it again? Presuming I had a week, with no restrictions on where to lodge and rented a car, then my …
In this, my penultimate post on the Hawai’i trip, I wish to share some thoughts on the Hilton Waikoloa. The biggest draw when I took up this offer with Hilton was its location on the Big Island. I have read so much about the beauty of this place that we just had to visit. (Un)fortunately …
The Hilton Waikoloa Village is set up in an interesting fashion. Its towers are connected to the lobby by a long walkway. The walls of these walkways are filled with artwork from, mostly, Southeast Asia. Its impossible to walk past them without standing to gaze at or admire a few. I found the display a …
Ask any one that has traveled to a Hawaiian island and the most frequently offered advice is to do a helicopter tour of the island. We first heard this from a concierge at our resort in Maui, in 2012. Back then, the children were younger, we were new to traveling and spending so much money …
The fourth morning, we had a meeting scheduled with the Vacations club staff in the first half of the day. The children wished to eat a bigger breakfast that morning, so we went back to the Big Island buffet. It had been temporarily moved to a different ballroom, so the seating was a bit cramped …
The dawn of the morning of Day 3, Missy JJ and I went down to the Waikoloa Coffee Company at the base of the Ocean Tower. The store is open every morning from around 5 am to about 11 am or so. They offer different kinds of coffee as well as bakery products like croissants, muffins …
Following a good night’s rest, we woke up to continued grey skies. But the natural beauty of the resort drew us like a siren’s call. Ready for the day, we first went to enjoy a good breakfast. As a Hilton Diamond member, I thought breakfast would be free for us and we would have to …