Kama‘āina Deals: Activities, Attractions and More Fun for Locals
Looking for ways to save in this economy? Here are some of our favorite kama‘āina deals on activities, attractions, classes and experiences.
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Best of HONOLULU 2024: Entertainment & Leisure on O‘ahu
Where to staycation, pet animals, take a tour for locals and visitors to enjoy and more of the best ways to have fun on O‘ahu.
Tour the Charlot House, a Midcentury Masterpiece in Kāhala
The private home of Jean and Zohmah Charlot is now open for tours.
We Tried It: Kualoa Ranch’s E-Bike Tour Was The Dream Escape We Needed
Thrilling trails, stunning mountain and ocean views, lush landscapes and the best guides to make it extra entertaining.
The Ultimate Guide to Two Hawai‘i Alcohol Producers: Kō Hana Distillers and Hana Koa Brewing Co.
The two local alcohol producers walked into a bar, and we haven’t been able to keep them straight since.
Get A Free Download Of This Native Hawaiian-Produced Walking Tour App to Learn About Our Islands’ History
Get the Native Stories app and free Downtown walking tour download.
Native Hawaiians Are Taking Ownership of Indigenous Sites and Stories With a New Location-Based and Podcast App
Choose from a hundred free, ethically sourced guided tours thanks to Native Stories. The app’s gone global and adds Japanese-language programming this fall. (And did we mention that we love it?)
Swimming With the Sharks in Hale‘iwa With North Shore Shark Adventures
Don’t let the tourists have all the fun.
You Have Just 10 Days to Visit Waialua’s Sunflower Fields
But there is only one day when you can get in during sunset. So plan accordingly.
The Importance of Sustainable Design is the Focus of Architecture Month 2019
Walking tours, films, sketches and photography celebrate O‘ahu’s vibrant architecture scene.
Horsing Around on O‘ahu’s North Shore with Happy Trails Hawai‘i
Don’t let the tourists have all the fun.
O‘ahu Museum Ideas: Have Lunch with an Artist at Hawai‘i State Art Museum
The museum includes work from the Art in Public Places Program, dedicated to acquiring, preserving and displaying works of art that relate to the Hawaiian Islands or the culture of its people.
Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum Lets You Climb Into Cockpits
Besides model aircraft and exhibits that depict Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, coast through the skies, dogfight in the air and land on the deck of an aircraft carrier in the museum’s combat flight simulator.
O‘ahu Museum Ideas: Sleep Next to a Volcano at Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
The challenge at this museum has always been how to showcase its 26 million artifacts and objects.
O‘ahu Museums Ideas: Dance in Front of Homes at Hawai‘i’s Plantation Village
The village is home to 25 structures that depict what life was like for the ethnic groups that lived and worked on Hawai‘i’s plantations.
O‘ahu Museum Ideas: Listen to Stories in a Cemetery at Hawaiian Mission Houses
The mission houses were a site to create and share culture. Two centuries later, they still are.
O‘ahu Museum Ideas: Have a Picnic in Front of Moving Art at HoMA and Spalding House
The Honolulu Museum of Art is a treasure trove of Asian, European, Hawaiian, American and contemporary art.
O‘ahu Museum Ideas: Have Tea at Queen Emma’s Summer Palace
Inside, treasures fill each room: a friendship bracelet containing a lock of English Queen Victoria’s hair; a fireman’s jacket belonging to Emma’s son, Prince Albert Edward; a cloak that survived a bombing in England during World War II
O‘ahu Museum Ideas: Throw a Pier Party at the Battleship “Missouri” Memorial
Best known as the site of the official end of World War II, the USS “Missouri” makes a perfect bookend to the USS “Arizona” Memorial just a few hundred yards off its bow.
Experience Dec. 7, 1941 Virtually at WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument
Spread over nine sites across three states, the WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument honors the people, places and events of World War II in the Pacific theater.
O‘ahu Museum Ideas: Sit in a 19th Century Trial at Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center
The center brings the law to life in a courtroom restored to what it looked like in 1913, with an exhibit depicting the effects of martial law in the Islands.
O‘ahu Museum Ideas: Take a Train Ride at the Hawaiian Railway Society
You can check out local locomotives; watch model trains zip through an expansive miniature landscape; and buy train whistles or exclusive Tori Richard aloha shirts.
6 Walking Tours That Explore O‘ahu’s Rich History and Culture
Feel like a tourist in your own city by learning about O‘ahu’s historic neighborhoods.
