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  Waikiki Beach, Waikiki Real Estate, all Waikiki Homes & Condos.
Although Waikiki Beach is approximately two miles long, the heart of the beach fronts four hotels  the Sheraton Waikiki, the Royal Hawaiian, the Outrigger Waikiki, and the Sheraton Moana Surfrider Hotels and Kuhio Beach Park.
Waikiki means spouting water, a reference to the springs, ponds, and marshes that comprised much of the resort area prior to its development.
It was called the Waikiki Reclamation Project and included dredging the Ala Wai Canal and pumping all of the dredged material, mostly coral, into the low-lying areas between the canal and the beach.
www.adrhi.com /waikiki-beach.asp   (463 words)

  
  Waikiki Beach
Known as Hawaii's visitor mecca, Waikiki is the heart if not the soul of the local tourist industry, where a substantial portion of the State's 6,000,000 annual visitors spend their vacation.
During the day time, the beaches draw most of the tourists, and at night the streets close to the beach come alive as discos, bars, and other evening shows are filled with people.
Waikiki is reputed to be the most famous beach and is said to be "among the most exquisite, lively, and overdeveloped tropical beach in the world."
www.angelfire.com /hi4/shelteredbay/topic01.html   (647 words)

  
 Waikiki Beach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Waikiki Beach is located on the sheltered south coast of Oahu a few miles to the east of downtown Honolulu.
Waikiki and the stunning Waikiki Beach, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, face south to the Pacific...
Waikiki accommodation comprises over 100 high rise hotels in the tiny 1 sq mile stretch of Waikiki Beach.
www.dry-suits-uk.co.uk /drysuits/waikiki_beach.html   (564 words)

  
 Aston Waikiki Beach Hotel - Honolulu Hotel Hotline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Aston Waikiki Beach Hotel is located on Waikiki Beach, three miles form downtown Honolulu.
The upscale, urban-Hawaiian themed Aston Waikiki Beach Hotel is setting Waikiki on fire after the recent completion of a $30 million renovation.
Beach chairs will be available for guests who wish to enjoy breakfast on the sands of Waikiki Beach.
www.hotelhotline.com /hotels/hotelinfo.asp?hotelid=131234   (380 words)

  
 Waikiki on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Tourism is the economic mainstay; Waikiki is known the world over for its beach and recreational facilities, especially surfing.
A statue of Hawaiian surfer and Olympian Duke Kahanamoku is on the Waikiki Historic Trail in Hawaii.
Waikiki could be 'yesterday's vacation spot,' consultant warns; image expert urges area to coordinate to prevent further overdevelopment.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/W/Waikiki.asp   (563 words)

  
 State will replenish sand at Waikiki Beach - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
The objectives of the project are to improve the size of the beach between the North Kuhio Beach groin and the Kapahulu storm drain and demonstrate state-of-the-art offshore sand collecting and pumping technologies for future beach restoration efforts.
Fletcher said Waikiki was never a naturally large beach area but was artificially widened and lengthened to support the growing tourist industry.
To maintain the larger beach area, enlarged from about a half-mile in the 1920s to about 1 1/2 miles now, pumping it up is a perfect solution, Fletcher said.
the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2004/Jan/19/ln/ln01a.html   (739 words)

  
 Pacific Beach Hotel - Waikiki Beach Hotel - Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii
Pacific Beach Hotel's 837 attractively appointed rooms are distinguished by their view or by bed type and by their facilities.
As their title indicate, oceanview rooms provide stunning views of the Pacific Ocean and Waikiki Beach and are available with a king or two double beds in either towers of the Hotel.
With unobstructed and magnificent views of the Pacific Ocean and Waikiki Beach, oceanfront rooms are located in the Beach Tower and available with either a king bed or two double beds.
www.pacificbeachhotel.com /rooms.cfm   (355 words)

  
 CNN.com - Where's Waikiki's sand? - Jul. 5, 2003
Waikiki's world-famous white sand beaches have been eroding an average of one foot a year since 1985, experts say.
But aficionados who have made Waikiki's beaches a part of their life, either through their work or recreation, say the area has seen significant changes.
"Waikiki is such a unique spot that when you start to fill the reef contours, the wave takes on a different personality," said George Downing, vice president of Save our Surf, an advocacy group focusing on coastal issues.
cnn.com /2003/US/West/07/05/waikiki.sand.ap   (843 words)

  
 Waikiki Beach Hawaii
Waikiki beach is the most famous of all the Hawaii beaches.
Waikiki stretches for almost four miles in an almost unbroken stretch of soft white sand.
Waikiki has over a hundred high rise hotels to choose from and lots of smaller inns and units for rent but only a few of these are absolute beachfront.
www.oahu.islands-travel.com /waikiki-beach.html   (100 words)

  
 Aloha-Hawaii.com: Waikiki
Translated, Waikiki means "spouting water," a reference to the rivers and springs that richly flowed into the area.
Waikiki is also home to some of Hawaii’s finest restaurants and hottest nightspots.
Waikiki is yours to discover, block by block, beach by beach.
oahu.aloha-hawaii.com /hawaii/waikiki   (518 words)

  
 eCityofTravel - Waikiki Beach
Waikiki is a crossroads of culture that uniquely caters to tourists offering just about everything under the warm sun to enjoy.
The beach may be the primary call of Waikiki, but it is hard not to be touched by the history and natural beauty of the island when visiting these sandy shores.
Waikiki is world famous for surfing, which was once the exclusive sport of kings.
www.ecityoftravel.com /waikiki/page1.html   (597 words)

  
 Waikiki, O'ahu
Waikiki is best known for its beaches but it is also host to award winning restaurants, world-class shopping, and top island entertainment.
Waikiki is a 0.7-mile manmade peninsula that encompasses 450 acres of vacation paradise.
At the beginning of the 20th Century, Waikiki was mainly swampland, fishponds, and duck ponds.
www.hawaiiweb.com /html/waikiki.html   (118 words)

  
 Waikiki Beach Services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Waikiki is where it all began with only the royalty at first being allowed to ride the surf in outrigger canoes.
At Waikiki Beach Services our mission is to have everyone experience the joy of surfing and canoe rides with the utmost safety and in the perfect setting, at Waikiki Beach with Waikiki BeachboysÂ…where it all began!
This group also wanted to promote the image of the original Waikiki beachboys, which was of men who respected the ocean and mastered the skills of surfing and outrigger canoe paddling, while spreading the Aloha spirit of Hawaii.
www.waikikibeachservices.com /waikiki-outrigger-canoe-rides.php   (339 words)

  
 Waikiki, Hawaii, Seashells on Waikiki Beach
Waikiki sees thousands of snorkelers and scuba divers every day, each one looking for that souvenir seashell, resulting in thousands of people going back to their hotel room every night without have seen one single seashell.
All of the shells in these photos were obtained by walking along Waikiki beach and watching them roll in with the tide.
The most frequently seen shells on Waikiki Beach are of the Cowrie family, especially the Humpback (used by Hawaiians as an octopus lure) Snakehead, Money, and although classified "Uncommon", the Granulated Cowrie.
www.geocities.com /rleffanta/seashells.html   (1297 words)

  
 ASTON WAIKIKI BEACH HOTEL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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 Aston Waikiki Beach
The hotel is located on the most scenic end of Waikiki, directly across the street from the world famous Waikiki Beach.
Breakfast on the Beach" is a full breakfast with American and Asian fare that is served in a portable "to go" fashion on the pool deck each morning from 6:30am - 9:30am (coffee service begins at 6am).
Complimentary beach chairs are provided for our guests so that they may enjoy this "to go" breakfast on beautiful Waikiki Beach.
www.hawaii-aloha.com /html/aston_waikiki_beach.html   (235 words)

  
 Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii - Reviews on RateItAll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
I traveled to Waikiki Beach by myself in 1987 and expected to find a tacky-touristy kind of place.
At one point I took a bus from the beach, around the island to the opposite side of the island (it was a local city bus and cost $1).
The beach on the other side was deserted and beautiful, like those you see in travel brochures.
www.rateitall.com /i-7871-waikiki-beach-honolulu-hawaii.aspx   (237 words)

  
 Beach Activities on the Long Beach, WA Peninsula : Beach activities, Beach attractions, RV park long beach washington, ...
Swimming is strongly discouraged with the exception of Waikiki Beach in Cape Disappointment (formerly Fort Canby) State Park.
Recreational beach fires are permitted 100 feet west (that’s toward the ocean) of the highly flammable dune grass.
The beach is designated as a State Highway, with a speed limit of 25 mph and all the regular rules of the road.
www.funbeach.com /attractions/beach.html   (1063 words)

  
 Waikiki Beach Club
The Waikiki Beach Club is part of the infrastructure initiative of the TCSE Committee on Reengineering.
The Waikiki Beach Club is a forum for discussing tool inter-operability and data exchange formats issues from various CARE tools and for different levels of abstraction.
More specifically, the goal of the Waikiki Beach Club is development of an exchange format for abstract syntax trees, control and data flow information, global code entities and their relationships, and other reverse engineering artefacts in order to allow interoperability of reengineering and reverse engineering tools.
www.iste.uni-stuttgart.de /ps/waikiki   (474 words)

  
 Waikiki Beach, Oahu
Waikiki Beach - Each grain of sand could tell a story for the millions of visitors that walk this beach.
The local beach boys rent the gear–they’ll tell the story of surfing legend Duke Kahanamoku, now remembered with a statue across from the Hyatt at Uluniu Ave.
Waikiki has nearly 1.5 miles of beach, really a series of beaches with their own intriguing names.
www.thisweek.com /oahu/tour/tour-waikiki.html   (311 words)

  
 Waikiki Beach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The most famous part of Waikiki is, obviously, its eponymous beach.
Along Waikiki's main street, Kalakaua Avenue (which runs along the beach), Rebekah and Deborah came across several friendly parrots.
The beach is one block behind the ladies and their birds.
msu.edu /user/rayburn/hawaii/waikiki_b.html   (144 words)

  
 waikiki beach: essaysdoctor.com- the essays, term papers, research papers doctor
Both ocean beaches and mountains provide most vacationing people with beautiful surroundings, a change in climate, and new things to do.
Some beaches are smooth, with calm, low waves that gently lap on the shore, providing a soothing background sound that emphasizes that the person is no longer at work.
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 Surfline | Waikiki Beach Boys
While the current version of Hawaiian beach boys, the Hui, is notorious for sending haoles to the beach, their predecessors were renowned for just the opposite -- helping them into the lineup and onto waves.
Around 1901, when the first tourist resorts were being completed at Waikiki, these men found their calling.
It became the clubhouse and the storage facility for the Waikiki beach boys.
www.surfline.com /surfaz/waikikibeachboys.cfm   (473 words)

  
 Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa: Hotel specials, rates and availability in Waikiki - Oahu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Retreat to a brilliant tropical playground at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa - situated only steps from world-famous Waikiki Beach and the Pacific Ocean.
Spanning 5.2 acres of picturesques beauty and splendor, this spectacular Waikiki Hawaii hotel resort blends the spirit of "Aloha" with an atmosphere that is warm, comfortable, and inviting.
The Resort is located across the street of world-famous Waikiki Beach.
marriott.com /hotels/travel/hnlmc-waikiki-beach-marriott-resort-and-spa   (239 words)

  
 Waikiki Beach Outreach Ministry
The Waikiki Beach Outreach Ministry is a ministry dedicated to providing food and ministry for the homeless who live or work on the streets in Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii, to let them know that God will help them with all their needs.
Waikiki Beach Outreach Ministry was initiated as a committee under The Body of Christ Jesus Fellowship July 4, 2003, when food was first distributed.
As the outreach and food supply grew, the Waikiki Beach Outreach Ministry became independent and was registered in Hawaii as a Domestic Non-Profit Corporation on March 1, 2004 by Robert E. Erb, Jr.
www.waikikibeachoutreach.com   (1535 words)

  
 Beaches
This beach is a favorite for its clear waters, soft sand and numerous picnic facilities in the adjacent park.
While the beach is a suntanner's paradise, the warm waters are perfect for snorkeling, surfing or just floating on an inflatable mat.
This beach is great for learning how to bodysurf or boogie-board because of the small, gentle waves that roll in here.
planet-hawaii.com /spot/Beaches/beaches.shtml   (344 words)

  
 Waikiki Activities Beach Information
The fertile reefs off Waikiki Beach provided an endless supply of fish and even lobster but the waves of Waikiki were reserved for the nobility, the Ali'i.
Challenge matches would arise as young Ali'i struggled to ride the largest waves, demonstrating their bravery and prowess while the common people watched in awe, for to even attempt to stand and surf as the Ali'i on their sacred waves was an offense punishable by death.
Waikiki and Kalia were also playgrounds for Hawaiians and many new residents who moved to Hawaii from Japan, China, Russia, Portugal and America.
www.waikikibeachactivities.com /beach.html   (606 words)

  
 waikiki beach scuba diving
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 VIA Online: The Rejuvenation of Hawaii's Waikiki Beach
The battle to regain Waikiki's soul—sold in the 1970s for the dubious reward of nonstop tourist arrivals, a haphazard high-rise jungle, and a sea of tiki tchotchke emporiums—has been a hard-fought one.
Opened in 1901, the colonial Moana recalls Waikiki's golden age, when guests arrived by Matson steamship and danced the night away in ballrooms; even today, visitors walk through hallways that were built extrawide to accommodate hoopskirts.
And therein lies the secret to Waikiki's timeless appeal, which is not in the novel or undiscovered, but in something so familiar yet so dazzling that we are helpless not to wonder at the sight of it.
www.viamagazine.com /top_stories/articles/waikiki_awakens02.asp   (2126 words)

  
 ResortQuest Waikiki Beach Hotel Reviews, Features, and Discounts from Travel Hawaii
The ResortQuest Waikiki Beach Hotel was recognized in the March 2004 issue of Travel & Leisure magazine as one of 50 affordable beach resorts in the world.
Hotels were selected by their locations near or on the beach, and room rates under $200 per night without sacrificing style.
The Waikiki Aquarium and Honolulu Zoo are both facinating to explore, and an easy 10 minute walk from the hotel, or just relax in the hotel's own sun-drenched swimming pool.
travel-hawaii.com /ASTON_Waikiki_Beach_Hotel.html   (668 words)

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