Outrigger Reef Hotel
Jan 12, 2004, 4:13 pm
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Outrigger Reef Hotel
Just want to get some advice from you gurugs. has anyone had any experience with Outrigger Reef Hotel? Thanks!
http://www.outrigger.com/hotels_detail.aspx?hotel=2
http://www.outrigger.com/hotels_detail.aspx?hotel=2
Jan 12, 2004, 5:26 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by sbbi:
Just want to get some advice from you gurugs. has anyone had any experience with Outrigger Reef Hotel? Thanks!
http://www.outrigger.com/hotels_detail.aspx?hotel=2
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Just want to get some advice from you gurugs. has anyone had any experience with Outrigger Reef Hotel? Thanks!
http://www.outrigger.com/hotels_detail.aspx?hotel=2
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Email me if you have any specific questions.
Caroline
Jan 13, 2004, 10:26 am
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I was "supposed" to stay here for Christmas till TRAVELWEB screwed up my prepaid/confirmed reservation 
We did walk thru it tho. It seemed nice enough. Would concur with the above poster. It is a good location and you can find good specials sometimes.
I have stayed at the Outrigger Waikoloa (now a Marriott/Outrigger?), it is terrific and has a more upscale feel to it.
We did walk thru it tho. It seemed nice enough. Would concur with the above poster. It is a good location and you can find good specials sometimes.
I have stayed at the Outrigger Waikoloa (now a Marriott/Outrigger?), it is terrific and has a more upscale feel to it.
Jan 13, 2004, 10:43 am
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When staying at an Outrigger Hotel, I always stay at the Outrigger Waikiki.
It's in the center of Waikiki and is a little closer to everything.
It may be only a few dollars more to stay there, I'm not sure.
The Reef is down by Fort DeRussy Park and next to the Halekulani. Not a bad location either.
Mary
It's in the center of Waikiki and is a little closer to everything.
It may be only a few dollars more to stay there, I'm not sure.
The Reef is down by Fort DeRussy Park and next to the Halekulani. Not a bad location either.
Mary
Jan 13, 2004, 11:36 am
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I've stayed here many, many times since the 1960s and visited again this past August.
Agree with carolinept's assessment. It's nice, but certainly not luxurious. Kinda Holiday Inn-ish, IMHO. In a very busy area, but then again, most of Waikiki is that way.
This used to be the lowest priced hotel you could get right on the beach. Don't know if that's true any longer, but I suspect that it still is.
There used to be a well known and great bar...Davy Jones Locker...underground at the main pool that had one of those great 60's huge windows underwater behind the bar looking in at all the swimmers. Long gone to the public (I believe it closed in the late '80s), but it's still down there beneath the small poolside "Chief's Hut" restaurant/bar. Sadly, the window has been plastered over on the pool side. I had a nice Security Manager take me down there for an "old times sake" nostalgic visit. Some of the bar stuff is still down there collecting dust, and it's just used as a storage room now with boxes and equipment piled everywhere. The Security Manager and I swapped some great stories of our "adventures" down there in it's hey-day. I bet if someone put the window back, and reopened it as a new-age-retro bar, it would be a huge hit with the younger crowd.
Here's a tiny shot of a postcard of it I just found on the web:
http://www.judnick.com/images/Mermai...ones_small.jpg
And a shore leave excerpt from a Submariner's diary (USS Tunny), that pretty much sums up one of the attractions of this once famous, but still infamous bar:
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Agree with carolinept's assessment. It's nice, but certainly not luxurious. Kinda Holiday Inn-ish, IMHO. In a very busy area, but then again, most of Waikiki is that way.
This used to be the lowest priced hotel you could get right on the beach. Don't know if that's true any longer, but I suspect that it still is.
There used to be a well known and great bar...Davy Jones Locker...underground at the main pool that had one of those great 60's huge windows underwater behind the bar looking in at all the swimmers. Long gone to the public (I believe it closed in the late '80s), but it's still down there beneath the small poolside "Chief's Hut" restaurant/bar. Sadly, the window has been plastered over on the pool side. I had a nice Security Manager take me down there for an "old times sake" nostalgic visit. Some of the bar stuff is still down there collecting dust, and it's just used as a storage room now with boxes and equipment piled everywhere. The Security Manager and I swapped some great stories of our "adventures" down there in it's hey-day. I bet if someone put the window back, and reopened it as a new-age-retro bar, it would be a huge hit with the younger crowd.
Here's a tiny shot of a postcard of it I just found on the web:
http://www.judnick.com/images/Mermai...ones_small.jpg
And a shore leave excerpt from a Submariner's diary (USS Tunny), that pretty much sums up one of the attractions of this once famous, but still infamous bar:
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Briefly, the story about pig is that he got some gal naked and took her in the swimming pool at the chief's hut bar. The side of the pool that he backed her up against was glass...In the bar downstairs (Davy Jones Locker) the back of the bar was a glass looking into the swimming pool...need I say more...</font>
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