5 Day Week Long Trip to Beautiful Honolulu

1st Day

• 9:52 am: Fly from SFO to Honolulu
• 3:45 pm: Arrive in Daniel K. Inouye International Airport
• 4:15 pm: Pick up car rental from Hertz
• 4:30 pm: Go to Costco to pick up eats
  • Eggs
  • Breakfast meats
  • Beer/sake/alcohol
  • Random Hawaiian snacks
  • They also have poke… POKE!
• 6:00 pm: Check into Wyndham @ Waikiki Beach Walk
• 7:30 pm: Have dinner at Mitch’s Fish Market (they close at 8:30pm)
  • BYOB so you can bring your own beer and sake
  • Get the spiny lobster sashimi
    • They turn this into a lobster miso at the end of the day or sashimi sampler
• 9:00 pm: Drop by Foodland grocery store
  • Ginger ale
  • Spam
    • They SO MANY flavors

Day 2

• 5:00 am: Eat Breakfast
  • Cooked garlic spam
  • Garlic rice
  • Made some of the local coffee
• 10:30 am: Pick up lunch at Ono Seafood
  • They have so much poke that’s equally delicious
• 11:00 am: Malasadas at Leonard’s Bakery
  • They also have a lot of different flavors
  • But be warned they are heavy (I wasn’t able to finish all of it)
• 3:30 pm: Hike Diamond Head
  • Can take 1-3 hours depending on how many photos you take
  • Cost: Parking $5 and Walk Ins $1
  • This moderate 1.5-mile round-trip hike starts from the middle of the Diamond Head volcano crater
  • Climbs about 560 feet up the side to the top of the rim
• 4:00 pm: Eat at Pioneer Saloon (they close at 8pm)
  • Miso butterfish (amazing)
  • Garlic ahi- medium rare
• 5:00 pm: Diamond Head Cove Health Bar
  • Get the “MANA BOWL”
    • Acai topped with Granola, Bananas, Strawberries, Blueberries, Bee Pollen & Honey
• 6:00 pm: Hang out at condo
  • Drink wine
  • Eat the mana bowl
• 8:00 pm: Walk around Waikiki Main Strip
  • Check out the Halloween fun!
  • Who knew that there would be so many people dressing up?
• 9:00 pm: Eat udon at Marukame Udon
  • Surprisinlgy there wasn’t a long line
• 10:00 pm: Head back to condo to rest

Day 3

• 11:00 am: Eat lunch at Yama’s Fish Market
  • Get the “lau lau combo”
• 3:00 pm: Snorkel at Hanauma Bay
  • Initially we went looking for a trail but couldn’t find it
  • Saw that we were nearby and decided to go swim instead of hike
• 6:30 pm: Pick up some spam musubi from Iyasume Musubi
• 7:00 pm: Go back to hotel
  • Shower
  • Drink
  • And get ready for dinner
• 8:00 pm: Have dinner at Alan Wong’s Restaurant
  • Very fancy dinnger
  • Very delicious dinner
  • And even though there’s a dress code that I tried to follow, I still felt overdressed

Day 4

• 8:00 am: Eat breakfast
  • Cooked at the condo
  • Made fried rice with eggs, spam and leftover rice
• 9:30 am: Drive out to North Shore
  • It was a longer drive than anticipated
• 10:45 am: Eat at Giovanni’s Shrimp Truck (Haleiwa location)
  • They have a great shrimp plate
• 11:20 am: Go have shaved ice at Matsumoto’s Shave Ice open from 9-6
  • Maybe it was a bad day but I found the shaved snow very course
• 11:40 am: Go to Lanikai Beach to try to find sea turtles
• 12:30 am: Take 2 hr Stand Up Paddle lessons with nature/turtle tour with Sea & Board Sports Haleiwa
  • I suck at Stand Up Paddling
  • Nadia is AWESOME at Stand Up Paddling
• 2:45 pm: Check out sea turtles near Baywatch office house
• 3:00 pm: Have a second lunch at Macky’s
  • It was a good shrimp plate but not as good(?) as the other one
• 4:30 pm: Go to Electric Beach for some more snorkeling
• 6:15 pm: Eat loco moco/mixed plate at Rainbow Drive-In
  • So good
  • Ate our plates outside at an available picnic table

Day 5

• 10:00 am: Eat at Sweet E’s Cafe
  • Kalua pork eggs benedict with herb roasted potatoes
• Hang out and get lost in Waikiki
• Walked along the beach
• Ate snacks up and down the strip
• Had  drink at a beachside bar
• Get cookies.. lots and lots of cookies!
• Returned the rental car
• 10:27 pm: Flight back to SJC

Things to Bring

• Sunscreen
• Snorkel gear

Price Breakdown | $540 Per Person

United Round Trip Flight to Honolulu from San Francisco for both of us came to about $440 USD.

The entire stay, after points, in Honolulu came down to about $300 USD for the 2 of us minus airfare.

You and another could do our entire trip for less than $1,080 USD plus food and drink.

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