My skepticism is waxing quickly vis-a-vis the likelihood of Go!’s continued operation here in Hawaii.  Today’s one-two punch below can only be interpreted as an extremely negative bellwether. We continue the now entirely-too-long saga of Mesa Air Group (Go!’s parent company). This morning Mesa announced the sudden resignation of their interim CFO, William Hoke, effective [...]

Nordstrom recently opened its first Hawaii store at Ala Moana. A flight attendant friend at Hawaiian Airlines sent us there to try the chain’s first gelato bar. We weren’t too difficult to convince. Maurice Grasso has been making gelato in Honolulu for the past 27 years. Nordstrom selected his company, La Gelateria Italian Ice Cream, [...]

As a regular feature at Beat of Hawaii, I enjoy sharing comments I’ve made elsewhere on the web: Day trips from Honolulu.

I usually view museum art behind glass, on one side of a rope and under the watchful eye of a guard. Not so at the Hawaii State Art Museum (HiSAM). Dubbed the “People’s Art Museum,” HiSAM deserves a place on everyone’s Honolulu activity list. First you take a historic building with Italian scrollwork and architectural [...]

A reader asked yesterday: “…Will GO airlines still be flying July 9… as I have tickets for the 8 and 9th. It makes it difficult to plan to island hop this summer…don’t want to get stuck some place.” (Stacy) This great question got me thinking that Stacy is probably not the only person wondering about [...]

I used to monitor popular travel newsletters for the best Hawaii airfare deals. It’s my feeling, however, that these sites are no longer the best resource for today’s fast-changing travel market. The reason is that while Hawaii airfare deals are still to be found, the nature of them and their duration, has completely changed over [...]