Outrigger Reef on the Beach - Outrigger Hotels and Resorts

The arrival experience is particularly impressive. The hotel’s entryway is a spectacular Polynesian canoe house built of richly-colored woods with traditi<strong>on</strong>al patterns. Restorati<strong>on</strong> of Ho‘aloha Ho‘aloha, suspended in our l<strong>on</strong>ghouse entryway, is a century-old Hawaiian canoe that had <strong>on</strong>ce been used for fishing. The koa-wood canoe had been discovered in <strong>the</strong> late 1980s <strong>and</strong> was restored by noted canoe builder <strong>and</strong> paddler Tay W. Perry, with <strong>the</strong> help of <strong>the</strong> Friends of Hokule‘a <strong>and</strong> Ho‘aloha as well as <str<strong>on</strong>g>Outrigger</str<strong>on</strong>g> employees. After its completi<strong>on</strong> in 2004, Ho‘aloha was paddled across <strong>the</strong> waters of Waikiki, l<strong>and</strong>ing at <strong>the</strong> beach fr<strong>on</strong>ting <strong>the</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Outrigger</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Reef</str<strong>on</strong>g>. Suspended from a towering perpendicular ceiling is <strong>the</strong> century-old Ho‘aloha koa canoe that was lovingly <strong>and</strong> painstakingly restored by volunteers <strong>and</strong> members of <strong>the</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Outrigger</str<strong>on</strong>g> ‘ohana (family).