Thursday, August 2, 2007

Honeymoon to Hawaii Review






Mindy,
Everything was great!! Time difference takes a bit getting use to but well worth it!!
Oahu:
Hotel (Resort Quest Beach Hotel) was nice, clean, breakfast on the beach was good.
Arizona Memorial, rented a car for two days and did the Aloha Flea Market, then drove up to the North Shore stopping along the way at Dole. Did the Polynesian Culture Center, it was interesting but we felt it was more for the kids. On the way back we stopped at Kahuna's Shrimp truck, OUTSTANDING!!! We both LOVED the shrimp, when we got to Maui we were a little disappointed there weren’t anywhere to be found. On Thursday we did a ride over to Haunama Bay, which was awesome, along the way we drove by some of Oahu's richest, the gates on their "compounds" protecting their mansions were very interesting.
The inter-island flight was a little turbulent, but short & sweet. We didn’t know that your luggage could be sent ahead before you so we were waiting for an hour before we went to lost luggage and was told it arrived on an early flight.
Maui:
After getting knocked around by a rude guy and his luggage who broke my nail, the car rental place gave me my dream car ( made the broken nail nothing LOL). We got a ford mustang convertible. The VIP service was worth it, we just got in the car and went.
We LOVED the Maui prince...it was very relaxing compared to Waikiki and what we desperately needed. Thanks to you we received a $25 resort credit on top of the $100 room/food credit. We bought our own snorkel gear after our experience in Oahu, and went twice right outside our hotel, since the charters just come there anyway. We saw huge turtles and tons of fish, perfect spot and well worth the investment in the gear.
The Luau was Fantastic, we had the most pictures taken there! The road to Hana was beautiful, and the dinner cruise as well. Mike enjoyed the bike ride, I made it 1mile down and gave up, the wind was 30mph and I was afraid I was going to be blown off the volcano, Our tour guides, taught us the most of Hawaii in 5 hours then we learned on our entire trip. The spa at the hotel is just as great as is the room service. There is nothing but smiles from our trip and all 750 photos!!!! We can't thank you enough for an outstanding honeymoon, the honeymoon registry was PEFRECT, we couldn't believe how many wedding gifts we had gotten, and we couldn’t even do them all!
Thanks again, eventually we'll take another vacation and definitely keep you in mind..Till then we'll be the "broke" teachers.
Kelli & Mike

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