What hotel has the best location in Hawaii to Wakiki Beach?
Kalakaua Avenue is the main street along the beach in Waikiki, it runs east to west, not north to south. There are also hotels on the far western edge of Waikiki along Ala Moana Blvd (the Hilton Hawaiian Village for instance), but the main central and eastern portions of Waikiki is along Kalakaua Avenue. Beachfront resorts are totally dominated by Starwood Resorts (Sheraton, Westin), Hilton, and Outriggers. There is one 5-star resort called the Halekulani (but it has no beach directly in front of it, and is also a bit far to the west). The Starwood hotels line the beach in central Waikiki, anchored by the Royal Hawaiian hotel, and they just remodeled the street access to the hotel, looks fantastic (used to be hidden by the shopping mall in front of it). The Moana Surfrider is also part of the Starwood chain, is the last hotel going east directly on the beach. Both of these hotels are historic and the first hotels in Waikiki and as you can imagine are on the best part of the beach. Both
