Ilikai Hotel and Suites

A great place it was! I stayed here for ten days on my Honeymoon. The rooms were pretty nice. The best part for me was the Amazing view I had of the ocean and lagoon. The view was priceless! I stayed on the balcony every chance I got. You can even see Luau’s and events happening blocks away. The lagoon was so much fun too! And the firework display was great! It toped off the cake! I MISS THIS PLACE ALREADY!

Our family wanted to do a stay cation, after price checking for the best rate, we went with the Ilikai.
Our room was amazing with a full kitchen which came in handy for a manwich night yum. .The kitchen is fully stocked with anything and every thing you may need… staff was friendly and great, they accommodate your every need. from a dvd kiosk, to beach towels and beach chairs. …very nice size room. I believe we had a standard mountain side room… nothing standard about it!.. we fit 4 in each room perfectly… definitely would like to stay here again… n. Thank you so much Ilikai!

Landmark Review
I was recently in Hawaii for a conference and decided to book my hotel stay here. I ended up staying here for close to 10 days and it was an okay experience. First I’ll go through a couple of the major positives. The newly remodeled rooms are quite nice as you can see from my photos. They include a very large bathroom and kitchen with a nice balcony view. I received a free upgrade to the Mountain View instead of the city view however the Mountain View is obstructed by other buildings. From our vantage point we are able to see the fire works real well and also the beachfront for the Hilton Hotel. You also get a bottle of complementary water and some Honolulu cookies when you first arrive. There is also a nice pull out couch for additional guests. Another positive was a promotion that they ran for our hotel room which made the price very comparable to other nearby larger resorts. There is also the nostalgic factor of this hotel as it was the hotel that was seen in the episodes of the original Hawaii 5 – 0. Those hotel also has its own pool and restaurant on-​site. Now a couple of negative things about this hotel. From our hotel we could hear the luau that is hosted at the Hilton. This does not occur very late at night however due to the time change sometimes it can interrupt with your sleep schedule. Some of the staff’s work ethics are also so-​so. I once went down to the lobby to ask if they sold tickets for the trolley and the gentleman at the desk said no and when I asked where I could buy it he threw me a trolley brochure. He told me that I could find the answer in their but it was funny because it was in Japanese and I can’t read Japanese. This hotel also charges a daily resort fee which covers newspapers, pool access, towel, Wi-​Fi, DVD rentals, and coffee in the room. Although this does not bother me I wish they would just added onto the fee for the hotel room and not charge it separately. The location is nice as you can walk to the nearby mall easily however is a bit far from Waikiki Beach. The only other issue I had was when I got my bill for the room I didn’t realize a charge me for a day of parking. If my wife did not pick up on this I would’ve overpaid. I ended up calling it took a day to resolve but I never figured out where the problem came from. As other members indicated there is no air conditioning in the hallways. This saves power but it is a very unique experience as it is hot outside and quite humid. We didn’t use the maid service during our stay so I can’t comment on how well they’d would perform. I would recommend this hotel if you want something that is moderately priced.
Hidden deals: Check out the website for the Ilikai special deals. Remember there is a resort fee added onto your daily charges. Remember to check your bills for other charges as well.

Stayed here my last time in Hawaii last year. I love this place. Always consistently quality and capture the right vibe. Clean and friendly.

Overall, a great hotel (really great for families too given the suites and kitchen).
Nice touches included a box of cookies from the Honolulu cookie company (amaze!) and waters in the room. Also gave us an upgrade to an ocean view room and a late checkout for 2pm.
Hotel Room is a B+; the newly renovated rooms are great. amazing view if you get ocean side. Nice kitchen. better bedding, mattress, pillows and a tub would have made it an A.
Service is a B+; check-​in was easy. We got an upgrade. Very nice ladies at the front desk. Responsive when you called. Late check out was avail.
The Property gets a B — We didn’t make it to the pool, but the lobby was nicely decorated for the holidays. There are two restaurants on the property– one was an nice restaurants and the other like a Denny’s with slow service (Cinnamons) — but they had a nice patio overlooking the bay. Nice coffee place and store on property.
You can’t beat the location– it’s right next to the Hilton property which has a ton of restaurants and a little shopping village. 5 min walk to the big mall (ala moana).
Morimoto has a nice restaurant next door at the Modern hotel. This hotel is something in between the modern and the Hilton.

The beach was a small stroll away and the Duke Kahanamoku Lagoon is steps away! Ala Moana shopping center is also a small walk from the hotel as well as Kalakaua Avenue where you can continue your shopping. This hotel has a decent pool but why stay at the pool when there is a beautiful beach at your leisure!

Nice staff. The room was pretty clean except for the shower had some hairs in it upon arrival I had to have the maid come clean them off. Besides that the view was lovely and conveniently close to the beach. The downstairs bar/​grill was yummy. I go to Hawaii often and I would return again.

I ended up staying in room 817 which is privately owned. Apparently this hotel shares many privately owned «condos» but they are just rooms like all the others. The location is decent enough with access to a lagoon/​beach but those are not the best places to visit. On the ground floor a cozy little café called cinnamon which has a pretty decent breakfast selection and on top of the Ilikai is a fancy restaurant with a great view. Aesthetically speaking the Ilikai had a strange and out dated aqua or teal color but while I view it as an eye sore, it did make it easy to see from a distance. The pool is sort of lack luster and lacks a hot tub and bar when compared to other places. The best part about this place is that it was one of the cheaper options so if you are just looking for a bed to sleep on then this hotel may just be the right one for you!

We had traded our time to stay here. What a great surprise. We have never been all that crazy about our current time share company and we’re just totally blown away with the Ilikai. This time share was the Shell Vacation Club Waikiki. Never were we pushed to go to any reviews for their other properties. Whenever we entered their office the staff always stood up to warmly greet us. They were very helpful whenever we asked them for assistance.
Regarding the Ilikai, Cinnamons Resturant had great food and service in a very pleasant setting. The pool was clean and the pool attendants always greeted us with a smile. In fact, EVERY staff member we saw at the resort always greeted us with a smile and a Hello. The restaurant at the top of the Ilikai, Sorrento’s, was fantastic. We were there on a Friday night and viewed the fireworks display put on by the Hilton Hawaiian Village. A nice treat to end our dinner.

The location of the Ilikai Hotel & Suites is amazing. We had ocean views from the 21^st floor and simply the best sight to wake up to every morning. There’s a couple of reasons why I couldn’t bring myself to give room 2124 a five star rating:
1. Mold on the shower curtain liner
2. Dirty (peach & cream colored) «accent» pillows (on the bed)
3. filthy carpet
4. high bath tub
I couldn’t bring myself to go barefoot in the shower and/​or bathroom, so I wore my «house» slippers all the time, including inside the shower. The idea of brushing against the shower liner made me cringe, so I had to push it outside of the shower. Getting into the tub was a bit of a challenge because it was seriously HIGH. When I say high, i mean tall. I needed a stool to get into and out of the tub. Why it was designed that way, I don’t get.
The pictures that were presented does no justice to what the room when first walking in and must have been taken the first day of the completion of the room renovation.
It’s a bit confusing, but to clarify the Ilikai Hotel & Suites, some are privately owned and rented and other rooms are handled as if it were a hotel (cleaning service included) room.
The best part about room 2124 is having a kitchen with utensils, rice cooker, plates & cups.
The beach is a five minute walk and a market located floor level for spam or snacks for the beach.
Do your research… ask for current pictures and don’t be afraid to ask questions.

We have stayed in the privately owned condos a couple times and have been very impressed. We decided to stay with the hotel this time because this stay is shorter. Big mistake! The room is dirty and hasn’t been updated since the 1970s. Extremely disappointed! We will only stay here again if it’s in one of the private condos.

I see a couple different rooms on the pictures, so I wish we would have taken one of our room.
We were on the 24^th floor, which was definitely recently remodeled. Overall, it was very modern and beautiful. Cool décor in the room, pretty big (king bed plus pull-​out couch), and best of all, includes a full kitchen. Yes, microwave, oven, stove, and full-​size fridge! All the rooms also have some pretty large balconies, where my husband and I would hang out and have a beer at night after the kids went to bed.
I didn’t check every night, but a couple times when we came down to the back patio area, there was live music and once there was hula/​traditional dancers.
Our stay included cards to borrow beach towels and chairs whenever we wanted during our stay (which was almost daily), and a redbox-​like place to borrow DVDs, which we used once (there’s a PS3 in the room).
The location is great: next door to the Hilton Hawaiian Village for shops/​restaurants/​fireworks, about a ¼-​mile walk to the lagoon, maybe ½ mile to Waikiki beach proper, tons of shops/​bars/​restaurants within a mile.
Valet was very prompt every day, and cost I think $ 28/​day.
Each room has it’s own wireless router!
I can’t speak for the regular rates, but the Ilikai honored the federal gov rate, which was ~$ 170/​night. For that money, I cannot imagine staying in a better place.

I came back to Oahu again this year but chose the Ilikai instead of the Hilton Hawaiian next door. I liked my room and my ocean view 100 times better. The Hilton is double the price and you get nothing. At the Ilikai, I was in a large room with full kitchen and the furnishings were modern. I had a large balcony and could see the ocean no matter where I stood in the room.
Housekeeping was excellent. They did a wonderful job the entire 9 days I stayed with them. The hotel itself including the valet, the convenience store, the coffee shop, were all very good. I found the staff to be very friendly and helpful. It was great to have Advantage car rental in the lobby because it made it so convenient to rent and drop off my car. The beach towel and chair service was a great addition.
Unfortunately, I could not give this place 5 stars because… HOW DO YOU NOT HAVE AIR CONDITIONING IN YOUR LOBBY, ELEVATORS, AND CORRIDORS ON EVERY FLOOR??? I was in disbelief. I couldn’t comprehend it. That fact alone shit on my desire of ever wanting to get dolled up to go anywhere. Why? Because by the time you leave your room, walk down the 100 degree and 100% humid corridor, wait for the elevator, step into the elevator which is equivalent to stepping into hell, hope that it makes a non stop trip all the way down to the lobby, or worse hope that it doesnt get stuck because for sure you will die, then make it to the lobby only to be assaulted by more disgusting heat and humidity, you will be sweating and you will be sweating like a pig. And if you’re like me, a head sweater with long ass hair, then you’ll be cursing at everyone in your path. Every time I returned to my room, it was pure AC ecstasy… the kind that makes you stop and go AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH. The AC in the room ROCKED!
This lack of cooling problem alone guarantees I will not be returning to this hotel again. I visited several other hotels during my stay and all of them were air conditoned in the public areas.
I never bothered with their pool because it was small and crowded. Why go to the pool when you have the beautiful ocean?

I booked the Ilikai hotel as part of a package offered on Expedia. My experience is definitely mixed & here’s what I wish I had known if I was going to reserve a room here.
I stayed on the 24^th floor, which looks like it has been totally remodelled. It’s a 1 room suite & quite a bit smaller than what you’d get in Vegas. There is a full kitchen with stove, microwave, fridge & sink with granite countertops. The living area has a sofa that pulls out into a bed, a flatscreen TV & a playstation 3 as your DVD player. The bathroom has a stand up shower (no tub), & enough counter space for 2 sinks but only has 1. There is a WiFi router in each room with the password clearly displayed & the WiFi is really fast. You also get cable TV, but there is a $ 15 per day resort fee. There are laundry machines on each floor. Overall, the remodelled rooms get an A.
Here’s what I didn’t like about the hotel. The downstairs lobby is nice, but the convenience store is not that great. You are much better off going to the ABC Store just a half block to the East. The ABC Store is way bigger & more reasonably priced. The pool at Ilikai is nothing special. Parking at the hotel is $ 28 per day, but you can save almost $ 10 per day by parking at Red Lobster & walking 5 minutes so we did that. There is no business center, but there is a computer on a cart they will let you borrow.
The full kitchen is a little more than you need, because it’s just not realistic that you’re going to go to the grocery store & then spend 1 hour making dinner in your hotel room when you are on vacation. But, since we had Baby C, the fridge was great for storing milk, grapes, & yogurt. They provide beach towels for you to use as you go out during the day, and let you exchange them as you come back. The Ala Moana mall is a 9 min walk, but there’s also plenty of shopping & restaurants you can find in the area. Because the Ilikai is a smaller property, the lobby is never a mob scene. Next door at the Hilton, we must have seen about 50 people waiting to check in on Saturday nite. So don’t expect a full resort experience, but if the price works out for you get a remodelled room & you should be set.

The room works, kitchen, king bed and pullout sofa.
You got the in house restaurant and market.
Outback and Red Lobster across the street.
Mc Donalds for breakfast or ABC too across the street.
Walk to the lagoon or beach as well.

Booked two weeks in a ocean view hotel room with full kitchen via the hotel’s online website, based on the online description and interior photos of a sample hotel room. At check in, we were very disappointed to find the room that we were provided was very inferior to what is show in the photos online. Furniture, carpeting, kitchen facilities, bathroom, and window coverings were poor to average condition compared to what is shown in the web site photos.
We asked the front desk to find us another room, but none were available. We moved to the Hilton for our two week stay where the actual hotel rooms you are given look like the photos posted on the website.
The Ilikai front desk staff were very cordial and service oriented. Unfortunately, It is poor business for the Ilikai hotel owners to show nicely renovated rooms with attractive looking furniture in the website photos, and then they provide rooms that are in poorer condition than what you saw in the photos when you check in. I’m sure that they have rooms that are very nice, still they should not be renting these rooms using the photos shown at the website.
Be forewarned, this almost looks like false advertising.

We are Elite Shells Vacation Owners and booked 3 studios for the whole family. The views were so beautiful in all three room. I just wish there were 2 bedroom units but we were mainly out and about. Oh and the fireworks every Friday night (watching from our patio) was awesome! Wish they would upgrade the showers though.
Warning all — parking is $ 27 dollars a day. Across the street above Red Lobsters the parking is $ 18 dollars a day.

I loved staying at this hotel! The unit (#1817) that we had was a condo, and it was fully stocked with everything in the kitchen that we needed. The lanai looked out onto the whole city, and even out onto the hills in the distance, so the views were awesome at any time of day or night.
The bed was huge and really comfortable, and though the wifi here was spotty, the big tv was nice to have, and (with the right cable that we brought) we were able to hook up our laptop.
The valet was $ 24/​day, which considering the only other parking option is a choice of the meters along the road that borders the back of the hotel, or longer term parking lots, is a convenient choice.
The beach is walking distance, and there’s an ABC Store conveniently located across the street. Even more convenient is the coffee place Aroma Caffe that’s on the property, the restaurant at the very top of the hotel with great views and good food, and the Morimoto’s near the bar and pool.
The location is walking distance to the mall, and lots of shops and restaurants.
I’d gladly stay here again!

This was the 2^nd time my gf and I stayed in the Ilikai, although this time we stayed in condo #912. This condo was a 1 bed 1 bath and as anything it has its pros and cons:
Pros:
1.) Awesome view of the beach. It’s simply amazing.
2.) Ample cooking supplies, pans, dishes, glasses.
3.) Bed was super big and comfortable.
4.) Couches were comfortable.
5.) Chairs and table on the balcony, so you can enjoy the great scenery.
6.) Oven top burners heated up really fast, which made it easier to make multiple meals
7.) Close to the elevators and trash room (believe it or not this makes a huge difference, saves time, since the trash bin in the condo is a little small).
Cons:
1.) No vent in bathroom. This gets tricky when you get sick and need to use the bathroom.
2.) Some of the buttons on the tv remote didn’t work, which made it a challenge to change channels, turn off the tv, etc from a distance.
3.) No beach towel, so we had to pick some up at Walmart.
4.) AC was a little noisy and placed over the bed which made it a little hard to go to sleep and stay in a deep sleep.
Overall, the pros significantly outweigh the cons, this condo was just awesome! We’ll definitely be staying here going forward.

My Golden Girls Hawaiian Nightmare Suite that I stayed for a week was old & dingy. Yes I know the suites are privately owned & yes the view was beautiful from the balcony but I was very glad when I finally moved across the street to discovery bay condo. If you’re here as a tourist, the Illikai is a cute place to stay because you’re here for a week tops. But if you’re here for work, like I was (month & a ½ on a work contract), I don’t recommend this place because all the tourists will drive you insane. Not to mention that you have to valet your car & it’s $ 28 a night.
I also recommend staying in the hotel rooms instead of the privately owned suites because it sucks to go out & come back to an unmade bed since you don’t get daily maid service in the private suites. Also the privately owned suites are very old & dated while the hotel rooms are maintained a little better. You might get lucky & get a more modern private suite but most of them look like Jimmy Buffet puked his Mai Tai all over with the dated Hawaiian beach décor.
Look, it’s an old hotel with a lot of cool history on Waikiki. That’s cool, I guess.