Word: waikoloa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feeling slightly ridiculous as I sit on a dock that juts into an artificial lagoon and stroke a dolphin's nose with my feet. The stroking is a handshake of sorts, a way of introducing me and four other people at the Hyatt Waikoloa in Hawaii to the dolphins with whom we will be swimming. We are the latest of roughly 15,000 customers who have paid $55 for half-hour frolics with six dolphins since the Hyatt program began a year ago. The enterprise, one of four operating in the U.S., is so popular that spots have...
Times must be tough for jaded travelers. There are not many places left on this earth that still confer bragging rights now that Katmandu has as many package tours as Atlantic City and darkest Africa is bright with flashbulbs. So just in time comes the spanking-new Hyatt Regency Waikoloa on the lee shore of the Big Island of Hawaii. At $360 million, it is the most expensive resort ever built. But that's not, even nearly...
...memory, and are willing to pay $265 a night for the average room to $2,500 for a presidential suite in order to find it. From that belief was born their Fantasy Resort, which promises to change the way many superluxe hotels do business. After much campfire brainstorming, the Waikoloa staff came up with a menu of activities, priced them fantastically and still cannot always keep up with demand. Though roughly half the guests at any given time are there on business, they still seem willing to spend whatever free time and discretionary income they have on making their trip...
Although Ricardo Montalban and Herve Villechaize, were not on hand, the posh Hawaiian resort that opened last week could well be named Fantasy Island. The new Hyatt Regency in Waikoloa on the main island of Hawaii offers luxury accommodations for $195 to $375 a night. For $325 extra, guests can train for a day under a professional driver, then suit up for a mock Grand Prix auto race along the coastline. Those who seek Hemingway-style adventures can hunt wild Russian boar and Longhorn bull on an island safari...
...part of a resort-industry trend toward offering action-oriented vacations, the Hyatt-Waikoloa boasts a fleet of paddle boats plying a four- acre lagoon and trams traveling over wildlife preserves. For the less adventuresome: seven restaurants, twelve bars and a mile-long gallery of Oriental art. The resort cost more than $360 million to build, including $2 million for a 77-step, pink-flagstone grand staircase...
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