HOLOHOLO
Give the gift of flying on Hawaiian
By Advertiser Staff and News Services
Hawaiian Airlines is selling flight gift certificates online, at grocery stores in the Islands and at Safeway stores in the nine destinations served by the airline: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, San Jose, San Diego, Portland, Seattle, Phoenix and Las Vegas. The certificates can be purchased online in amounts ranging from $50 to $5,000 and can be e-mailed to purchasers, printed out as presents or e-mailed directly to recipients with a message. Check www.hawaiianairlines.com/gc.
GOLF AT THE BAY
The Sheraton Keauhou Bay's golf package in partnership with the Kona Country Club includes 18 holes of golf for two for each night booked, plus daily buffet breakfast and a cooler to be filled with lunch from the hotel buffet.Packages begin at $390 per night, through Dec. 15. For more information, call (888) 488-3535 or go to www.starwoodhotels.com/hawaii. Ask for code GOLFPKG.
CHINA AT SEA
The Bishop Museum's groundbreaking exhibition "Lost Maritime Cultures: China and the Pacific," runs Feb. 24 to April 15. The show explores connections between ancient China and islands in the South Pacific and includes rare cultural treasures on loan from China. Recent genetic discoveries have determined that Southeast China is the original homeland of the Polynesians, Melanesians, Micronesians and the indigenous people in Southeast Asia archipelagos. Information: (808) 847-3511; www.bishopmuseum.org.HILTON SPECIALS
The Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa offers a new year kama'aina room special of $165 per night Jan. 2 through Feb. 4.The Mandara Spa in the Kalia Tower offers kama'aina a 20 percent discount on spa services including treatments for teenagers. Atlantis submarines also offers kama'aina rates of $21.54 for adults and $16.16 for children 36 inches or taller.
On Jan. 7, the Hilton Hawaiian Village tees off its annual Sony Open week activities with PGA touring pro Rich Beem offering a free one-hour autograph session from 4 to 5 p.m. Golf pros from the Luana Hills Country Club will be on hand to offer tips Jan. 7-12, between 10 and 11 a.m. on the Village Green.
Reservations:(808) 949-4321, ask for rate code P3; www.hiltonhawaii.com. Proof of Hawai'i residency required.
