Lonely Planet Honolulu Waikiki & Oahu
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher

Lonely PlanetHonolulu, Waikiki & Oahuis your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Catch the sunset at Waikiki Beach, snorkel the turquoise waters of Hanauma Bay, or browse the Bishop Museum's Hawaiian artefacts -all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of destination and begin your journey now!

Inside Lonely PlanetHonolulu, Waikiki & Oahu Travel Guide:

  • Full-color maps and images throughout
  • Highlightsand itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests
  • Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots
  • Essential infoat your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices
  • Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
  • Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, people, lifestyle, landscapes, wildlife, cuisine, politics
  • Over30color maps
  • Covers Honolulu, Waikiki, Pearl Harbor, Kapolei Area, Diamond Head, Kahala, Hanauma Bay, Pali Highway, Waimanalo, Kailua, Turtle Bay, Waimea, Sunset Beach and more

The Perfect Choice: Lonely PlanetHonolulu, Waikiki & Oahu, our most comprehensive guide to Oahu, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less traveled.

Looking for a guide focused on Hawaii or Honolulu? Check out Lonely PlanetDiscover Hawaii, a photo-rich guide to the state's most popular attractions; or Pocket Honolulu, a handy-sized guide focused on the can't-miss sights for a quick trip.

About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves. The world awaits!

Lonely Planet guides have won the TripAdvisor Traveler's Choice Award in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016.

'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media

'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times

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Lonely Planet Honolulu Waikiki & Oahu
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher

Lonely PlanetHonolulu, Waikiki & Oahuis your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Catch the sunset at Waikiki Beach, snorkel the turquoise waters of Hanauma Bay, or browse the Bishop Museum's Hawaiian artefacts -all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of destination and begin your journey now!

Inside Lonely PlanetHonolulu, Waikiki & Oahu Travel Guide:

  • Full-color maps and images throughout
  • Highlightsand itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests
  • Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots
  • Essential infoat your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices
  • Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
  • Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, people, lifestyle, landscapes, wildlife, cuisine, politics
  • Over30color maps
  • Covers Honolulu, Waikiki, Pearl Harbor, Kapolei Area, Diamond Head, Kahala, Hanauma Bay, Pali Highway, Waimanalo, Kailua, Turtle Bay, Waimea, Sunset Beach and more

The Perfect Choice: Lonely PlanetHonolulu, Waikiki & Oahu, our most comprehensive guide to Oahu, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less traveled.

Looking for a guide focused on Hawaii or Honolulu? Check out Lonely PlanetDiscover Hawaii, a photo-rich guide to the state's most popular attractions; or Pocket Honolulu, a handy-sized guide focused on the can't-miss sights for a quick trip.

About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves. The world awaits!

Lonely Planet guides have won the TripAdvisor Traveler's Choice Award in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016.

'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media

'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times

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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher

Lonely PlanetHonolulu, Waikiki & Oahuis your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Catch the sunset at Waikiki Beach, snorkel the turquoise waters of Hanauma Bay, or browse the Bishop Museum's Hawaiian artefacts -all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of destination and begin your journey now!

Inside Lonely PlanetHonolulu, Waikiki & Oahu Travel Guide:

  • Full-color maps and images throughout
  • Highlightsand itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests
  • Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots
  • Essential infoat your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices
  • Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
  • Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, people, lifestyle, landscapes, wildlife, cuisine, politics
  • Over30color maps
  • Covers Honolulu, Waikiki, Pearl Harbor, Kapolei Area, Diamond Head, Kahala, Hanauma Bay, Pali Highway, Waimanalo, Kailua, Turtle Bay, Waimea, Sunset Beach and more

The Perfect Choice: Lonely PlanetHonolulu, Waikiki & Oahu, our most comprehensive guide to Oahu, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less traveled.

Looking for a guide focused on Hawaii or Honolulu? Check out Lonely PlanetDiscover Hawaii, a photo-rich guide to the state's most popular attractions; or Pocket Honolulu, a handy-sized guide focused on the can't-miss sights for a quick trip.

About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves. The world awaits!

Lonely Planet guides have won the TripAdvisor Traveler's Choice Award in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016.

'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media

'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781786577078
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Publication date: 09/19/2017
Series: Regional Guide Series
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveler since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travelers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more.


'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times


'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveler's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)


*Source: Nielsen BookScan: Australia, UK, USA, 5/2016-4/2017

Table of Contents

Plan your Trip

Welcome to Honolulu Waikiki & O'ahu 4

O'ahu Highlights Map 6

Honolulu, Waikiki & O'ahu' Top Experiences 8

Need to Know 20

What's New 22

Accommodations 24

Getting Around 26

Month by Month 29

Itineraries 32

Eat & Drink Like a Local 38

On the Water 45

Diving & Snorkeling 48

Surfing 54

On the Land 60

Hiking & Biking 62

Aloha for O'ahu 68

Family Travel 74

Regions at a Glance 79

On the Road

Honolulu 82

Beaches 85

Sights 86

Activities 102

Tours 108

Festivals & Events 108

Sleeping 110

Eating 111

Drinking & Nightlife 122

Entertainment 125

Shopping 127

Waikiki 136

Beaches 139

Sights 144

Activities 148

Tours 153

Festivals & Events 153

Sleeping 154

Eating 158

Drinking & Nightlife 164

Entertainment 167

Shopping 168

Peal Harbor & Leeward O'ahu 174

Pearl Harbor 177

'Aiea 181

Waipahu 183

Leeward O'ahu 183

South O'ahu 196

Diamond Head 199

Kahala 199

Hawai'i Kai 202

Hanauma Bay 207

Koko Head District Park 208

Makapu'u Point 210

Windward Coast 214

Waimanalo 217

Maunawili 218

Kailua 219

Kane'ohe Bay Area 228

Kahulu'u & waiahole 231

Kualoa 232

Ka'a'awa 233

Kahana Valley 233

Punalu'u 234

Hau'ula 235

La'ie 237

Malaekahana State Recreation Area 239

Kahuku 239

North Shore & Central O'ahu 246

Turtle Bay 249

Sunset Beach to Hale'iwa 253

Pupukea 255

Hale'iwa 260

Waialua 265

Mokule'ia to Ka'ena point 267

Central O'ahu 268

Understand

History 278

People O'ahu 287

Arts & Crafts 293

Lei 295

Landscapes & Wildlife 297

Survival Guide

Directory A-Z 304

Transportation 307

Index 314

Map Legend 319

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