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Live Music: Party with the Locals!
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  • This colorful, but rather small bar features live music and is frequented by super friendly locals! There is a full bar, and a light menu.

    Extremely laid-back & casual; Aloha shirts, shorts, slippers, jeans, whatevahs...

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  • Theme: Live Music
  • Address: 1038 Nu'uanu Avenue; Honolulu, HI
  • Phone: (808) 526-1410
  • Directions: Chinatown

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    Live Music: The Hard Rock Cafe is always a...
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  • The Hard Rock Cafe is always a nice bar!
    The usual food, Elvis Presley's car, nice variety of drinks, and live music! Pic of me and fellow travel partner 'Ole_B' (VT friend as well).

    Casual.

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  • Theme: Concert

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    Live Music: The Wave
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  • A kind of 'underground' place, with original people and music. They have a lot of different live band's playing and jam-sessions. Great rap music when I visited.

    Casual.

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  • Directions: 200 meters from Hard Rock Cafè, direction towards Waikiki.

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    Live Music: Have a drink at the Banyan Bar...
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  • Have a drink at the Banyan Bar at the Moana Hotel. The Banyan tree is over 100 years old, and the bar is under the spreading branches of the tree.
    The Banyan Bar is located right on Waikiki beach, and you can hear the waves lapping against the sandy beach at night. The hotel shines spotlights out onto the ocean, so you can see the waves. Very relaxing. There's also nightly entertainment at the bar, so you get to see some free local talent. You also get those cute little paper umbrellas with your tropical drinks.

    Go up to the second floor of the hotel to look at all the historical artifacts on display. Go into the small room, and a video player kicks on when you enter the room. The video covers the past 100 years in Hawaii, and all the changes that Waikiki has seen. Go up to the top (6th?) floor and on either side of the elevator is a small balcony. You can go there and overlook the Banyan bar. You can hear the waves at night, or listen to the free entertainment. It's like having your own private balcony.

    Whatever. I wouldn't really suggest formal attire since this is an outdoor bar, but anything from a coat and tie or dress to shorts and t-shirts are okay.

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  • Directions: If you're in Waikiki look for a great OLD hotel right on Kalakaua Avenue. It is only about 6 stories high, with a port cochere valet area and great columns in the front of the hotel. That's the Moana

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    Live Music: While there are many clubs and...
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  • While there are many clubs and entertainment opportunities in Waikiki, my favorite thing to do is to visit the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. Nicknamed the 'Pink Palace,' this hotel is one of the oldest in Waikiki, and is still the most luxurious. At the back of the hotel, right next to Waikiki Beach, there is a small, outdoor bar. Most evenings there is live entertainment where one of the local groups will provide the sounds of the islands. The bar serves the BEST Mai Tai on the island (not just my opinion, but also the opinion of the food editors of both the Honolulu Advertiser and the Honolulu Star Bulletin). Sitting there in luxurious settings, sipping a Mai Tai, listening to gentle island music, feeling the ocean breeze, and watching the waves gently lap at the shore just about defined the 'island experience.'
    The whole hotel is bright Pink!!! You can literally feel the luxury as you walk around. The lobby area is open to the public. I highly recommend at least strolling through the hotel. Staying there is even better, if you can afford it.

    Because it is next to the beach, casual attire is permitted and accepted.

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  • Directions: The hotel is located behind the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center just off Kalakaua in the center of Waikiki. Most pictures of Waikiki beach feature the 'Pink Hotel.'

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    Live Music: If you can arrange it, try to...
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  • If you can arrange it, try to travel to Oahu in middle to late August for the Aloha Festival, in late October for Halloween, or in late December for New Years. On all three occassions Kalakaua Ave in Waikiki is normally blocked off and the entire area becomes one big block party!! It's a wonderful experience with all the people, the costumes, the entertainment, and the general revelry. Short of the Mardi Gras, there's not much like it anywhere in the world.
    For the Aloha Festival, there will be stages set up all along the street providing entertainment. There is everything from great local musicians to national stars performing for free. It's crowded, but it's a BLAST.

    As always, on the islands the dress code is very casual. For the Halloween block party, though, a costume of some kind is always acceptable.

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  • Directions: Kalakaua Ave, Waikiki.

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    Live Music: Here's one that's not secret!...
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  • Here's one that's not secret! HAWAI'I THEATRE (downtown) for any Hawaiian music or dance event.
    This is a restored neo-rococo theatre in the grand style. Lots of gold leaf, velvet curtains, and revivalist Renaissance murals. It has become the preferred venue for Hawaiian events, recalling the style of the Monarchy Period. The local audiences tend to dress up, with some older Hawaiian women wearing elegant holomu'u with kick trains and rare Ni'ihau shell lei. These Hawaiian concerts show the Hawaiian and local community at their most dressed up with local customs and social hierarchies in high gear. Check with the Hawai'i Theatre box office or the Honolulu Weekly newspaper for a schedule of Hawaiian events. There is usually something Hawaiian-related every weekend there.

    There is a theatre organ that is occasionally used for silent movie presentations. It is situated next to a nouvelle Island cuisine restaurant, Indigo, which opens its back gate so that concert goers can go immediately to the theatre. Cocktails and soft drinks are available in the second floor lobby.

    To be 'part of the experience,' an elegant aloha shirt for men or a long, fitted mu'umu'u for women is appropriate. No jeans or shorts. Beautiful shell, feather, or nut/seed leis are much in evidence. This is an opportunity to wear a fragrant lei (NO CARNATIONS!).

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  • Theme: Theater
  • Directions: Bethel Street between Hotel and Pauahi Streets, next to a big park with a waterfall.
  • Other Contact: Box Office Telephone: 808/528-05

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    Live Music: Pretty much the only place on...
    Pretty much the only place on the north shore to party at night at besides the beach and houses, is in Halei'wa (i think that's spelled right, pronounced [ha-lay-EE-va), the 'town' in the north. There the best place to go is Halei'wa Joe's. We partied there right after the famous Eddie Aikau Memorial Big Wave Surf Contest at Waimea, with the Long Beach Dub Allstars playing live... it was sick sick SICK!!

    Hawaiian shirt, nice pants, sandals of some kind. Pretty hip

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    Live Music: Anna Bananas
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  • Theme: Concert
  • Directions: In the middle between Honolulu and Waikiki

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    Live Music: Charo
    She's Charo -- is that not unique enough. She's more sexy than Don Ho, anyway. And during one number she came out to the audience and coochie-coochied everyone's heads (though not mine; she said, 'You could coochie-coochie me').

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  • Directions: Charo has her own nightclub or bar in Maui, but here she played at some hotel. We found the info in our hotel's lobby.
  • Other Contact: The food offered in the buffet w

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