Hilton Hawaiian Village

Good place to be from, by the way.

The family lore on my side is that I was conceived at the Hilton Hawaiian village in the rainbow tower in 1969.

Oh my goodness.

And I believe it because my mom and dad were in Hawaii nine months before my birth.

They spent a week at the Hilton Hawaiian village in the rainbow tower.

And I go back there frequently.

I go back there often.

Calling you home.

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I'm in Lillikoi where right now they have got a storefront out at the Hilton Hawaiian Village.

And now I'm with the founders over here.

We have January and Rodrigo.

Really great for our environment.

Now we have a bunch of things that you guys brought.

I mentioned you guys are at the Hilton Hawaiian Village.

That's where your storefront is.

It has been quite a week for conferences in Hawaii.

A transportation summit started earlier this week, and today the Hawaii Tourism Conference kicks off at the Hilton Hawaiian Village.

It runs for two days, and this afternoon there'll be a session on airfares and how global affairs could affect consumer confidence in travel.

Economists are also set to meet at the end of the week to talk about AI and the effect on industries that generate money into our state coffers.

And hospitality is still our bread and butter.

So we were one of our first projects was Hilton Hawaiian Village right after it was built, had some remediation issues with some moisture and some mold.

And that's really funny is that's how we kind of got into the hospitality world is because of a mold issue at Hilton Hawaiian Village.

you know, when it was first built.

So Aaron Kiyohara leads that team.

And you guys are doing it the other way.

So I want to talk about the expansions into the mainland, but in a second.

When I first want to go to, I'm glad you brought up that Hilton Hawaiian Village story because I think in all of our careers...

Round-trip airfare, taxes, and the hotel, $962.

Now, I love the Hilton Hawaiian Village.

That's beachfront.

That's a five-star over-the-top.

It just depends on how desperate they are.

uh to be done with their timeshare and sell it off and find a new owner for it and the latest rentals these are obviously not discounts and they're not in the next couple weeks these are just future timeshare rentals posted by owners themselves week eight uh hilton hawaiian village lagoon tower uh we're 2027 week 5 2027 start the new year off maui banyan vacation club lots of hawaii locations who doesn't want to ring in to 2027 with the january hawaii vacation it's pretty miserable most of the in the northern united states in january I guess that's probably February week eight, but even worse, probably even colder in February.

Wouldn't you rather have your toes in the sand in beautiful Hawaii? I can, again, think of worse places to spend my February than Hawaii.

Disney Animal Kingdomville is a great, great, very, very popular Disney resort to look outside the elephants and the giraffes right after right out your window.

It's an opportunity really to celebrate all of Hawaii's physicians and to honor two in particular.

And we'll be doing it on September 26th at the Hilton Hawaiian Village.

And our two honorees this year, Dr. Corey Liao, physician of the year, neurologist, outstanding.

And then we have Dr. Benjamin Young, a psychiatrist, also just a longstanding physician leader and one who's been a pioneer on so many levels.

Never in her mind would she ever think of doing that.

And so we went and he was in, he used to play the Hilton Hawaiian Village, I think, which is this lush, giant thing.

Now he was in like the Ramada, one of their conference rooms with mostly people on their honeymoon trips.

or their anniversaries.

But what can the attendees expect this year being the 30th anniversary?

We are going to be having it at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Waikiki Beach.

It is, as you mentioned, it's the second time we've been there.

The first time the conference was canceled because of COVID.