The Best Travel Writing About Hawaii

In addition to our collection of fabulous hotels - and their equally fabulous reviews - Travel Intelligence is built upon some of the finest travel writing on the web. So, to find a range of travel writing about Hawaii and general Hawaii travel tips, you just need to browse the selection of travel articles below...

Articles about Hawaii

  • Rediscovering Maui | Barb Sligl | Hawaii | Hawaii | Maui
    "If the approach to Maui by plane is any indication, something special awaits below. After flying above nothing but water for thousands of miles the island appears, smack in the middle of the Pacific. Out of every shade of blue rise slopes that..."
  • Desperately Seeking Stardom: Celebrity-Spotting in Hawaii | Nick Maes | Hawaii | Hawaii | Hawaii
    "My star-spotting credentials are a little dubious.  I once enjoyed a drink with a nice guy called Johnny; utterly oblivious to the fact that his surname was Depp.  And on a film set I casually asked an actress her name; a puzzled..."
  • Waikiki | Susan Miles | Hawaii | Honolulu Region | Waikiki
    "It’s hard to think of another location in the world where t-shirt and flip flop-clad beach goers stroll past tux-wearing grooms and brides adorned in virginal white gowns; where shopping can be practiced from the high end designer range to the..."
  • Hawaii Style | Tim Elliott | Hawaii | Hawaii | Oahu
    "Forget El Dorado and the Garden of Eden; forget the mythical valleys of Cockayne and the shimmering hills of Galilee. The real land of plenty is Waikiki, on the sun-baked southern shores of Ohau, where along with the proverbial milk and honey you’ll..."
  • Surreal Waikiki | John Borthwick | Hawaii | Hawaii | Waikiki
    "By Waikiki's circus sands the remnants of a surf aristocracy - a statue of Duke Kahanamoku and the cochineal-pink seraglio of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel - gaze wistfully over a mutating empire. Honolulu Lulu "Queen of the Surfer Girls"..."
  • Letter from Hawaii | Norman Miller | Hawaii | Hawaii | Hawaii
    "In 1866 a relatively unknown journalist by the name of Samuel Clemens - better known now as Mark Twain - arrived in what were then the Sandwich Islands to write a series of Letters From Hawaii for the Sacramento Union newspaper. He intended to stay..."
  • Visiting Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park | Susan Miles | Hawaii | Hawaii | Hawaii
    "I am embarrassed to say that it has taken three visits to the state of Hawaii to actually make it out to the island of Hawaii. But, like so many things in this glorious state, it’s not far (less than an hour flight from Oahu), is easy to..."
  • Call of the Gooneys | Richard Newton | Hawaii | Hawaii | Hawaii
    "On an atoll in the Pacific, a five-hour flight from civilisation, I was conversing with the doctor to whom I would entrust my life should misfortune strike. He was stocky and middle-aged, wearing a loud Hawaiian shirt and a ponytail. His..."
  • Ground Shaker | Alf Alderson | Hawaii | Hawaii | Oahu
    "One of the classic images in competition surfing’s relatively short history is that of Californian pro surfer Rob Machado tucking behind the curtain of a perfect ‘tubing’ wave at the 1995 Pipe Master’s Pro in Oahu, Hawaii, blasting out again a few..."