more hawaii suggestions

[totient]

• There are lots of locally produced maps. The University of Hawai'i Press ones are the best and cheapest. Look for the blue and green printing on a white cover.
  
• Don't miss the farmers markets and thrift stores. The latter are particularly good places to find an aloha shirt. Don't buy too much local fruit, though: you won't be able to bring it back to the mainland.
  
• I particularly enjoyed our two nights at Hotel Manago in Captain Cook on the Big Island. It's a trip back in time to 1938, with only the barest of concessions to the modern age: no phones or TV in the rather spartan rooms, but a pretty Japanese garden, and the beds were firm and new, easily the most comfortable I've had anyplace that cost less than $50 a night.
  

Comments

[c1.livejournal.com]

Hotel rooms like that are all over Costa Rica, and similarly priced. They're great, aren't they?

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

No phones or TV in the rooms sounds attractive.

[klingonlandlady.livejournal.com]

Manago- was that the one that was an old plantation dormitory or something? I loved the avocado tree visible from the back, and the homestyle cooking. It was recommended to me by an old friend who grew up in Hilo.