Imperial Waikiki

[DaveNV]

You got lucky with that unit. It looks like it's a Hala? On the makai end of the building? Definitely upgraded since I was there last.

How were the views from the Owner's Suite? Looks like it was a really nice day.

Dave

 

[slip]

You got lucky with that unit. It looks like it's a Hala? On the makai end of the building? Definitely upgraded since I was there last.

How were the views from the Owner's Suite? Looks like it was a really nice day.

Dave

Yes, I agree, we were upgraded. Yes, we are on the Makai side. I’ll have to look at the name of the unit. It has been upgraded since I owned here also. I only owned a studio.


The elevators weren’t slow. They are about the same as our building. Not bad anyway.

I will be posting pictures of the owners lounge. I took a couple short videos out on those Lanai’s up there.

DW decided Denny’s was fine for tonight so I will post those after dinner. We are going to grab a couple things at the ABC store before we head up to the condo.

 

[slip]

Here’s some pictures of the Owners lounge on the 26th floor. I’ll post the videos after I upload them. I may do a video of the inside of the owners lounge tomorrow.

 

[slip]

Here’s the first video of the first lanai at the owners lounge. I will make one of the inside tomorrow. We ended out at Denny’s not the Yard House for dinner.

 

[slip]

Here’s a short video of the oceanfront Lanai in the Owners Lounge.

 

[slip]

Looking at the book in our unit, our unit looks like a Koa unit. The Hala was listed as a two bedroom. This unit has two queen beds in the bedroom though and it has a pull out queen in the sofa so it sleeps six. It does have two full baths.

Either way, we are happy. They had the air on when we arrived and we haven’t needed that in our apartment because of the trade winds that blow right through the unit. Here you don’t get the breezes so we will use the a/c. That’s fine with us because the unit is very quiet. I’m sure it’s quieter now since there aren’t as many people in Waikiki too. Our apartment definitely has more noise since we keep the windows open everyday.

So tomorrow is Ruth’s Chris for dinner. Don’t know about the rest. My wife’s back was bothering her today so hopefully she will get a good nights sleep and feel a little better in the morning.

We enjoyed the lanai tonight and will enjoy our morning coffee out there tomorrow.

 

[DaveNV]

Looking at the book in our unit, our unit looks like a Koa unit. The Hala was listed as a two bedroom. This unit has two queen beds in the bedroom though and it has a pull out queen in the sofa so it sleeps six. It does have two full baths.

Yes, sorry - Koa, not Hala. Oops, my error. I owned a Palm unit, (1br 2ba, sleeps 4) which was a good size for us. We stayed there a number of times, and traded it a few times too. (Got 56 TPU in RCI for a deposited Christmas week. Great trader!)

Nice videos from the Owners Lounge. The views are as great as I remembered. The weather looked to be excellent, too.

Did you ever figure out the name of the building in that one image you'd thought was the Imperial?

Dave

 

[slip]

Yes, sorry - Koa, not Hala. Oops, my error. I owned a Palm unit, (1br 2ba, sleeps 4) which was a good size for us. We stayed there a number of times, and traded it a few times too. (Got 56 TPU in RCI for a deposited Christmas week. Great trader!)

Nice videos from the Owners Lounge. The views are as great as I remembered. The weather looked to be excellent, too.

Did you ever figure out the name of the building in that one image you'd thought was the Imperial?

Dave

No I didn’t look when we pulled up but what I circled is where it is. I just can’t see it from my apartment because of that building in front. I do believe it’s the Wyndham Beachwalk though. I’ll see today.

 

[slip]

Yep, it was the Wyndham Beachwalk. In the picture where I circled the Imperial, that was the Beachwalk with the Imperial right Behind it. Because my apartment building is straight behind it, we can’t see the Imperial but that is where it’s at.

 

[slip]

Here’s a couple of the lobby in the Imperial.

The ABC store in the same building as the Imperial is great like DaveNV said. They even have Dole Whip.

 

[DaveNV]

You can't go wrong with Dole Whip.

Dave

 

[amycurl]

OMG, the Dole Whip machine is AWESOME.

 

[slip]

Ruth’s Chris was excellent. I had the Ribeye and my wife had the Seafood Tower. We are outside and we were the only ones out there. Great evening to eat outside. My wife went in to use the rest room and she said it was busy inside.

Great week so far. We are definitely enjoying the lanai. Tomorrow we may take some drinks it’s to the owners lounge and enjoy the lanai up there.

 

[slip]

Got a quick picture of the sun before it went behind the building.

 

[Tamaradarann]

Ruth’s Chris was excellent. I had the Ribeye and my wife had the Seafood Tower. We are outside and we were the only ones out there. Great evening to eat outside. My wife went in to use the rest room and she said it was busy inside.

Great week so far. We are definitely enjoying the lanai. Tomorrow we may take some drinks it’s to the owners lounge and enjoy the lanai up there.

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The Food Looks Great. We have walked by there hundreds of times but never ate there. During NORMAL times there is a farmers market on Tuesdays and Thursdays right below where you were on the artificial grass lawn. Also, on the same lawn they occasionally have free music events, and in March during the Honolulu Festival there are music performances all day long on Saturday and Sunday in a tent with a stage and chairs to see the performances.

If you recall the story about the 2011 Tsunami in Honolulu that I previously told on TUG. Well as I said we were staying at the Imperial right across the street at that time. On Sunday night after the Tsunami Jeff Shumubucoro, a world renowed virtuoso ukulele player, organized and performed a free fundraiser on the lawn in the tent that was set up for the Honolulu Festival, for the victims of the Tsunami. We attended and received an autographed CD of his for a donation of any amount. Since then we have seen him perform many times in Honolulu as well as on Long Island near where we live.

 

[Luanne]

@slip did you try the sweet potato casserole at Ruths' Chris? I didn't see it on the table. The few times we've gone that has been a must for us. We even found a copy cat recipe on the internet and younger dd has made it a few times for Thanksgiving.

 

[DaveNV]

Great week so far. We are definitely enjoying the lanai. Tomorrow we may take some drinks it’s to the owners lounge and enjoy the lanai up there.

You can't go wrong with the Owner's Lounge at the Imperial. The individual room views are what they are. That Owner's Lounge being up higher like that give the best views in the building, I think.

Glad you're enjoying yourself. It's a nice place to stay.

Dave

 

[Tamaradarann]

You can't go wrong with the Owner's Lounge at the Imperial. The individual room views are what they are. That Owner's Lounge being up higher like that give the best views in the building, I think.

Glad you're enjoying yourself. It's a nice place to stay.

Dave

I certainly agree with you. It is not only being up higher it is the fact that you have 270 degree views the individual rooms give you maybe 90-150 degree of views.

 

[slip]

Late started to today. Lots of work emails to get through and then had a FaceTime call with my son, so that was great.

Since we have the Stay at home order starting on Thursday. We will just enjoy the rest of our time here at the Imperial. We are both really enjoying the owners lounge and the our lanai. It feels good to get some sun.

 

[slip]

I certainly agree with you. It is not only being up higher it is the fact that you have 270 degree views the individual rooms give you maybe 90-150 degree of views.

It is really nice and we haven’t seen anyone else up there each time we went.

 

[slip]

You can't go wrong with the Owner's Lounge at the Imperial. The individual room views are what they are. That Owner's Lounge being up higher like that give the best views in the building, I think.

Glad you're enjoying yourself. It's a nice place to stay.

Dave

This has worked really nice for us. My wife has been happy on a different view and having a few things really close. We have mostly stayed around here but she is enjoying everything and she doesn’t have to go far.

It has been worth it even though it was only a few blocks away.

 

[slip]

The Food Looks Great. We have walked by there hundreds of times but never ate there. During NORMAL times there is a farmers market on Tuesdays and Thursdays right below where you were on the artificial grass lawn. Also, on the same lawn they occasionally have free music events, and in March during the Honolulu Festival there are music performances all day long on Saturday and Sunday in a tent with a stage and chairs to see the performances.

If you recall the story about the 2011 Tsunami in Honolulu that I previously told on TUG. Well as I said we were staying at the Imperial right across the street at that time. On Sunday night after the Tsunami Jeff Shumubucoro, a world renowed virtuoso ukulele player, organized and performed a free fundraiser on the lawn in the tent that was set up for the Honolulu Festival, for the victims of the Tsunami. We attended and received an autographed CD of his for a donation of any amount. Since then we have seen him perform many times in Honolulu as well as on Long Island near where we live.

We were actually going to see him at the Blue Note but it was canceled with COVID. I have seen some music being preformed in that grassy area but never saw the Farmer Market. I was just probably not there on those days.

I was thinking of going to Roy’s since it is right across the street but I see they are closed. Today, we just grabbed lunch at the deli in the ABC store.

 

[slip]

@slip did you try the sweet potato casserole at Ruths' Chris? I didn't see it on the table. The few times we've gone that has been a must for us. We even found a copy cat recipe on the internet and younger dd has made it a few times for Thanksgiving.

Unfortunately no, I ended out getting one of their specials. They did have a more limited menu. The special was a choice of salad, choice of steak and one side, then a choice of desert. My was $69. I chose the creamed spinach. I had heard good things about it also. I do like spinach and it was good. I would try the sweet potato casserole as I like that too.

We enjoyed it a lot. It was great that it was right across the street so it was great for my wife to walk to. We really like the Aloha Steakhouse which is just down the block on Lewers. It is more of a local business. So I can see us going to another Ruth’s Chris on a different island. Definitely work a trip back.

 

[slip]

We stopped at the ABC store deli for lunch and brought it up to the lanai. I had the French Dip and my wife had the Chicken Curry plate lunch. They have a great variety there.

 

[DaveNV]

We stopped at the ABC store deli for lunch and brought it up to the lanai. I had the French Dip and my wife had the Chicken Curry plate lunch. They have a great variety there.

I think that particular ABC Store is my favorite one of all. Probably the widest variety of stuff of any of them I've been to.

Dave