OHANA Waikiki Malia, Honolulu

Super Stay at Sea Shore Sheraton

Advantages: Good location, Friendly staff, Great room, Ocean view was wonderful
Disadvantages: Expensive!

According to my guidebook, there are around 60,000 hotel rooms in the Waikiki district of Honolulu, an area that houses virtually all of the hotels on the island of O'ahu, despite being only two miles in length. Just think about how many hotels that amounts to; there are literally hundreds to chose from, all crammed into a relatively small area of land, and many built like skyscrapers to compensate. Thankfully, Thomas Cook had handily whittled this smorgasbord of options down to something a bit more manageable for us, and were also able to offer rooms at a little more of an affordable price than the eye-watering rack rates of many hotels (plus extra for that ocean view room, of course). While we decided we could live without the ocean view, we did want to stay in a nice hotel (this trip was our honeymoon, after all) and preferably one in ...

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Review of Sheraton Waikiki, Honolulu

Not as bad as I expected.

Advantages: Central location
Disadvantages: the lifts

We booked to stay at the Ohana Waikiki West through our travel agent as part of our honeymoon package. I had checked out some hotels prior to booking but had not come across this one. We thought we would give it a try as it looked nice in the brochure. However when I got back home and looked it up on the internet I was not looking forward to our stay at all. There were horrer stories about the leanliness of the hotel, the rowdyness of the hotel and the nightmare lift situation. We arrived late at night and went straight to check in, where we found there had been a mistake with the booking and the room was booked only for my (new) husband. I was very disappointed but in fairness to the staff on reception they were most apologetic and sorted out another room for us, located on the first floor - the smoking floor. as nonsmokers we were ...

cathtucker06 22.11.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Ohana Waikiki West, Honolulu

Manic Malia

Advantages: Hot, Great nightlife, Lots to do.
Disadvantages: Scary Greek men, quite expensive in some places.

Whether you have noticed or not, I have been away from Ciao for 2 weeks, and I’ve been on holiday. It was a bit of a last minute thing. I’ve just split up with my long term boyfriend and I needed to escape for a while, so we booked a fortnight of fun in the sun in Malia. I wasn’t particularly looking forward to it when I went, but I enjoyed it so much! ~*~IN GENERAL~*~ Crete is approximately 100 miles away from the mainland of Greece. Create is about 150 miles across and 50 miles wide, and is the largest Greek island. The Euro is now used in Greece instead of the Drachma, and therefore prices have increased quite dramatically. Quite obviously the main language spoke in Greece, is Greek, although the shopkeepers and suchlike are usually quite good at giving English a go. The land in Crete is pretty mountainous ...

MurkyDismal 01.07.2003 (09.12.2003) · Read full review
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Review of Malia, Crete