McCoy Pavilion

New home of the Scottish Festival held every April. Great location plenty of room for retail vendors in the halls. Festival uses the main room for the Highland Dancing competition, the Dining room for the cultural clans displays, kids games go in the grass by the dry fountain. Food vendors & the main stage go in the large courtyard. Water & electricity is available as are some tables & chairs. Highland Athletic Games & sword fighting reenactments go in the grass outside the walls. Its a fun place, right across the street from the water. Parking is limited but then were in Hawaii so where isnt it…

Free parking, but may need to walk far. Nice air conditioning; clean; safe and centrally located. No food or beverages allowed in the hall. Flies hovered around us as we ate our bento meal at the picnic tables. Good sound system and elevated stage. Great facility for our annual meeting of the Credit Union!

This is for the Greek Festival at the McCoy Pavilion every August which we love to attend annually. Great information about Greece, movies and entertainment as well as the local cuisine. It’s fun and the outdoor atmosphere makes it one big party. If you like to dance and join the crowd, this is for you. My husband chats with friends as I dance the night away with new and old friends. Once in Chicago’s Greek district, I bought an entire bakery box filled with Melomakarona Greek cookies to bring home. Unfortunately, by the time I flew back home, they were pretty much consumed. God, they were so delicious and addictive. Thank goodness I won’t bake them otherwise they’d be the death of me! Some things are just meant to be enjoyed. OOPA!

McCoy Pavilion
Didn’t even know this place existed…
It’s basically a Hall at a beach. I came here for the first time for the Greek festival. Place is spacious with an open lanai which had couple of lily ponds and outdoor picnic tables. There seemed to be one large dining hall with a stage. This place would be great for large formal gatherings such as weddings and Bar Mitzvahs.
The goods… ample parking and venue is spacious.
The meh… bathrooms are shared with beach goers.

I think this is one of the more underrated venues in the Ala Moana/​Ala Moana beach park area. Its conveniently located right across from the beach and right next to the tennis courts over there. I came here several times for mini festivals and events such as the Greek festival. Its definitely an interesting place to hold events. They have a couple of conference rooms including one where they have a projector and mini stage are for showing films. The outside area is pretty nice. Near the entrance, they have some outside grass and table areas. The main outside area by the pond/​lake is pretty interesting. The surrounding pond area makes it all intertwiney which is almost like a maze. The restrooms are alright. If someone who wants to organize an event here and really knows how to utilize the space that they have and offer here then they can pull out a really great event. The parking is always doing to be iffy depending on the situation and circumstances because you are sharing with park users and beach goers. It might not be the biggest venue location out there but it is definitely an option. If you haven’t been to an event here I suggest you go check it out. There’s also entrance from back sides of the pavilion by the keyhole parking and park side of Ala Moana beach.
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I have come here on numerous occasions for different reasons of course. It has changed a lot over the years and now they have a snack bar. It’s nice if you want an ice cold beverage and not one that has been sitting in the sun all day. They also host the Greek festival here but it’s not the best location since everything seems so packed together.
Location is nice and central but parking sucks unless you park at the mall and walk over. It probably needs some fixing up but alas there’s no money in the city budget for such a luxury.

Today GREEK festival was held there and I have to say that it is a nice outdoor venue however it was bloody HOT there were trees there to provide some shade but we oriental people do not like to get dark! So all the corners of the shade was already spoken for. :(
There isn’t much room to roam around the venue when it is packed, the whole time I was there I kept looking at the water filled with little fishes swimming around and how dirty it was and scared that clumsy me would fall in there. it was a distraction I mean if the water was nice and clean then I wouldn’t have been worrying so much about the falling part but just the embarrassment part. Seriously even the fishes look deprived in the ponds. There isn’t much sitting area in there, there were stairs to sit on but no benches. I think that they should have a huge tent up to prevent the sun glowing in our faces…
I really hope this place stays open but they definitely need to revamp it, dazzle it up a little, maybe even make it a bigger place where there is actually enough seating for a concert, wouldn’t that be nice??? yes it would be. :)

I haven’t been here in nine years, since a Pau Kahana closing ceremony that I was in, back in spring of 2001. Today was my students’ Martin Luther King Jr. Internation Peace poem awards ceremony.
We carpooled and got here an hour early. It is Friday and it seemed like students were furloughed, not doing their homework, and out at the beach with the families. Parallel parking seemed scarce and we were lucky to find a parking space. We were following the truck of one of my student’s families.
There seemed to be one major room with a stage, red curtains, chairs set up, and lots of air conditioning (it was 87 degrees outside). The ceremony was nice, with students from grades K-​10 being honored for their award winning poems. Mayor Hanneman was en route from the U.S. mainland and was not available to hand out award certificates.
This is a pavillion near a beach and provides public restrooms to beach go-​ers. I was waiting to use the restroom when three women, returning from the beach were speaking very loudly, often times swearing amongst themselves and between the bathroom stalls. There were also mothers with their very young children, parents of the students being awarded today, waiting to use the bathroom. After listening to these other women and I was done with the bathroom, I went back to the awards ceremony and told my friends about how these other women were shouting at each other, over the bathroom stalls.
I figured I’d wait for another bathroom break instead of going back into this public beach bathroom today.
My students and I took a lot of photographs after their poetry recital was over. It was a good day, besides the shouting in the bathroom.

I think this is one of the high lights of Honolulu. Just walking through the ponds and the pavilion is a nice retreat from the buildings and traffic of downtown just across the street. I just came from the Story Telling Festival there last night, and I had a pretty good time there. Just a nice and peaceful place.