{"id":4060,"date":"2021-08-12T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/?p=4060"},"modified":"2021-10-29T17:53:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T01:53:03","slug":"hawaii-here-we-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/2021\/08\/12\/hawaii-here-we-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii Here We Come – Aug 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday 8\/12 – Monday 8\/16.<\/p>\n

Our summer vacation this year was Honolulu, Oahu, and we were staying for 3 nights at one of the most beautiful hotel on the island, the Hilton Hawaiian Village Resort.\u00a0 \u00a0William is 7 years old now, he’s old enough not to cry and he loves to fly!\u00a0 The only issue during our flight from LAX – Honolulu is that he kept standing up on the chair and touched the lights on the ceiling and often times pulling down\/up the food tray so strong that would shake the seat of the person sitting in front of him.\u00a0 Lucky for us it’s Danny seat so we were not yelled at.\u00a0 He did not want to watch any movie, all he wanted was looking at the map.<\/p>\n

William only slept for about 30 minutes; United airlines did not serve lunch; I brought 1 lunchbox from home so that was William’s lunch.\u00a0 We were late because we had a bit of issue getting the pre-approval of covid-19 so did not have time to buy any thing for lunch; lucky for us aunt Eliza gave me a croissant, which I shared with aunt Julie.<\/p>\n

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Everyone is required to wear mask all the time, except for when eating.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We arrived at Honolulu airport around 11:00 AM, it took so long for the luggage to come out.\u00a0 Then we headed to the Budget rental car to pick up 2 minivans to fit total of 12 of us.\u00a0 Then we headed to Pho Que Huong at China town for lunch; the food here is good.\u00a0 After lunch, we stopped by Costco on the way to the hotel for some water and snacks.\u00a0 Aunt Eliza bought William a set of Beach toys!\u00a0 William enjoyed his churros while looking out the window: it’s his first time here at Waikiki.<\/p>\n

Check in at the hotel took so long: about 1 hour! I already checked in via Hilton Honors app, otherwise it’d take longer because the general check in line was so long.\u00a0 It took so long because they required EACH adult to log in to the Safe Travel web site and show them the trip details.<\/p>\n

But then when we got to our room, the view was spectacular; it was worth all the hassle!\u00a0 After a short break, we headed down to the Hilton Lagoon, William loved it here!\u00a0 We got lucky that someone gave us 3 floats because their trip ended today.<\/p>\n