Originally Posted by
Michael El
Agree. However, it's the first trip to Hawaii for my kids and we have a lot of activities planned all over Oahu. Oh and it's a budget trip using HH points and US Airways miles for the flights.
***Nothing wrong with basing out of Waikiki, other than the nighttime street noise, if that bothers you. ES Beachwalk is (thankfully) a bit outside of the busiest/loudest area anyway (I'm tagging the International Market area as impossible to sleep near - I stayed at the Outrigger directly across from that once... continual street performers bongo-drumming and the next-door property so close you could literally hear people talking on their balconies...)
Not so bad at ES.
O'ahu Advice - Traveling Deathmerchant says... get a car, use it often. Bug out each morning to take a leisurely drive up to hit the North Shore and Diamondhead area jaunts every day or two. Then come back to Waikiki-cum-Scottsdale-Fashion-Square-on-the-beach for some night life and sunset pupus.
TDM (who is counting down days til his October return to ES Beachwalk)