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...Minutes Away. Yet Waikiki can be a disappointment. The beaches are getting crowded. Some of the new hotels (such as the 535-room Outrigger, opening this month) are designed to be low on price and sparing on service. The shops and sightseeing in Honolulu itself are still the most varied, and new attractions, such as the performing dolphins at Taylor Pryor's Sea Life Park at Makapuu Point, draw enthusiastic visitors. But the visitors do not necessarily return to stay at Waikiki. Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. are now moving out to the sleek, discreet...
...sure, no place shows signs of the current expansion more obstreperously than Honolulu's Waikiki Beach. The vast majority of Oahu's 109 resort hotels lies along the graceful crescent that stretches west from Diamond Head. Henry Kaiser's 900-room Hilton Hawaiian Village on Waikiki boasts the best bikini watching in the islands; just beyond it, the ebullient Chinese-Hawaiian multimillionaire Chinn Ho has erected the slender, glassy new $27 million Ilikai, with condominium apartments, shops, offices and a rooftop lounge that draws even the kamaainas (oldtimers) from Honolulu...
...wave of tourists is now heading for the island resorts. Long Island Banker Patrick Clifford and his wife Mary are typical. They have made four trips to Hawaii in the past four years, and not once left Oahu. But, says Mary, "I'm so disappointed at the way Waikiki's been built up." This year, they will see all three of the major outer islands...
House of Happy Talk. Kauai ("The Garden Island") likes to think it has best safeguarded the ancient Hawaiian traditions of hospitality. The "Aloha spirit" has been adulterated on bustling Waikiki with too many cheap grass skirts and plastic leis. But it still thrives on Kauai, where farmers tend their lush taro patches and fish with nets from the reefs much as their forefathers did. Local boys and girls mingle with the young crowd of guests in the Prince Kuhio piano bar of the new Kauai Surf, at Kalapaki Bay, whe ~e the waves come in just right for beginning surfers...
...make way for the enormous entourage at the staid, pink stucco Royal Hawaiian Hotel, 40 disgruntled guests were hustled off to other rooms, while 140 other patrons arriving over the weekend were lodged elsewhere. Workmen swarmed over the pentagonal three-room King Kalakaua Suite-overlooking Waikiki Beach to ready it for the President. A seven-ton air conditioner, a monarchic double bed, and several cases of Tab and low-calorie Dr. Pepper were sent up. An ancient freight elevator was refurbished for the President's use with red carpeting and plywood paneling from the Philippines. Signal Corpsmen from Pacific...