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That's my take on Oahu as well. It's a big city on a beach. For someone living where I do, it's basically like all the same stuff we have here, but it's a long flight and expensive hotel stay for the things I can drive to here.

I think for people escaping places with trash weather, or whose biggest body of water in the near vicinity is a lake or river, Oahu is nice. Waikiki is very "resort" feeling, there are a lot of places to eat and things to do, all within walking distance of your hotel. So I get the draw for many people, but as someone already living in SoCal, I prefer the places that are more of a change of pace.

I'd fly there to have lunch at the best sushi place I've ever been to.

I'd fly there to have lunch at the best sushi place I've ever been to.

If this Honolulu trip for my wife's friend doesn't happen for whatever reason, we're thinking about pivoting and going to Japan instead... I would hope that they've got some good sushi there 

If this Honolulu trip for my wife's friend doesn't happen for whatever reason, we're thinking about pivoting and going to Japan instead... I would hope that they've got some good sushi there

This guy IS Japan!

Probably. From Chicago it was 9 hours going and 7.5 coming back. Jetstream.

yup, flew to Chicago waited a couple hours then flew west to Omaha, then a 90 minute drive home

Rhodes and lindos today 

One hears some about Hawaii and beaches, like this one below:





To look at for a bit is neat, there are a lot of turtles, but it's not for swimming, at all.  And there are private homes right up in that tree line which sort of diminishes the view.  I've been to Hapuna beach a few times, it gets "ranked" by some, to me, I prefer the Gulf coast beaches for beach stuff.  There also is a beach close to where we stay with a long name usually called "A Bay" because of that, it's decent, but nothing spectacular, to me. The sand is quite coarse.