Alii Kai Sunset Dinner Cruise (from Aloha Tower)
Avoid this one.
- Very limited dinner selection. Most of the dinner choices were appetizers and side items, with a couple of entrees at the end.
- Seating was very bad. We were really crammed in and everyone was made to sit with people they didn't know, even though this was supposed to be more of an intimate setting.
- It was VERY hot inside the boat even with all the windows open (I was on the second floor) and there was very little air circulation (which is needed to help digestion on a moving ocean vessel). I know it sounds strange hearing there is no air circulation with all the windows open, but it happened.
- Service was very slow. I think my table got water and our ordered drinks after dinner had been announced, which made the second floor's heat even worse.
- The top floor had very little room for a boat that can hold 500 people. Everyone was trying to get to the top floor because it is a balcony that provides a pleasant breeze, and everyone was trying to get there because of t
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Awesome.
I wanted to do kayaking and my wife wanted us to do that in a two-man boat, which was fine with me. But then she chickened out at the last second and I had to kayak a two-man boat by myself. It was hard and embarassing and the situation sucked.
Despite that, I had a great time. My guide was very understanding of the situation and helped me along the whole way. My group kayaked to a small island a quarter-mile out to sea and he gave us a small tour. Interesting stuff.
When we came back, the manager gave us a partial refund on my wife's payment because she was in the boat for less than five minutes.
It was a good time. If you go to this place, ask for either Matt or Mark (can't remember). He's an orange-haired dude who wears a Gilligan hat.
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Pretty cool visit.
Everyone says that PCC is the #1 place to go when you're on Oahu, but I don't get it.
Yes, there are a lot of things to do there but it's mostly walking around and looking at different artifacts and recreations. It wasn't a big deal to me, especially since most people file all that information under M for "meh" after they leave the place.
One thing that really rubbed me the wrong way was that they kept pushing their $5 "Island Deelite" ice cream bowls on everyone, but only after forcing people to sit in 90-degree weather with no shade.
There wasn't enough of a gap in between lunch and dinner for me... you can't give people a buffet lunch and then expect them to dive into a buffet dinner less than five hours later, with Island Deelite ice cream in between of course. The after-dinner show was pretty good, but kind of cliche for me and had more of the "meh" factor from before.
The main thing that rubs me the wrong way is that the PCC is run by a church, so they don't really co
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