Kauai

On our way back from Waimea Canyon, we stopped at the Kauai coffee company.  It overlooks the coffee plantation. There are dozens of free samples (including some decaf), and a small museum showing the process.  There is also a coffee counter selling regular sized coffees.  We bought a

A friend recommended that we check out Roy’s during our stay in Hawaii.  So, while in Kauai we made sure to get a reservation.  We wound up eating there twice – it was far and away our favorite restaurant we ate at during our 2 weeks in Hawaii.  The first time we went we s

This restaurant, about a 10 minute walk from the main hotel complex (with its own parking) overlooks the golf course and the mountains.  It is a big open room, nicely decorated, but not as spectacular as Tidepools. The cuisine is Asian fusion. We had some very tasty appetizers.  For o

We went for dinner at the Grand Hyatt.  The Tidepools restaurant is very beautifully set among koi ponds and waterfalls. The restaurant is divided into many sections surrounded by the pond, giving it an intimate feeling.  Many of the tables are right next to French doors that open out

We ate at Shells Restaurant for New Year’s Eve dinner, as well as for their breakfast buffet. The New Years buffet was expensive ($90 pp), but had all-you-can-eat oysters, crab, shrimp, sushi, ahi, champagne, etc. Although there was a lot of choice, none of the main meal options

We spent one week at the Sheraton Kauai. It’s about a 25 minute drive from the airport to the Sheraton. At checkin, we were pleasantly surprised to find out that because of all the problems we’d had in Maui, we got a free upgrade from a partial oceanview (which as it turne