Halekulani: Hawaii’s heavenly house

Luxury and indulgence await at the Halekulani hotel in Waikiki

View towards Diamond Head from Halekulani
Diamond Head overlooks the beach at Waikiki
(Image credit: ©Halekulani)

Waikiki somehow manages to be hedonistic and relaxed at the same time. Maybe that’s got something to do with the shaggy-haired beach boys and girls, who have been coming to this golden sweep of sand for decades. They come to the beach fringing the city of Honolulu, on the Hawaiian island of O’ahu, to soak up the rays and ride the waves, their colourful surfboards lined up in the sand like tall picket fences. All of them walk in the sandy footsteps of the great Duke Kahanamoku – the “father of surfing” and an Olympic swimming champion.

Kahanamoku was among the first of the modern era to pick up his giant redwood board and paddle out towards the breakers. He is venerated as a legend in these parts, a place that looked very different when he was born in 1890.

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Chris Carter spent three glorious years reading English literature on the beautiful Welsh coast at Aberystwyth University. Graduating in 2005, he left for the University of York to specialise in Renaissance literature for his MA, before returning to his native Twickenham, in southwest London. He joined a Richmond-based recruitment company, where he worked with several clients, including the Queen’s bank, Coutts, as well as the super luxury, Dorchester-owned Coworth Park country house hotel, near Ascot in Berkshire.

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