Hawaiian Marketplace

It should just be called, «Weird abandoned sort of loosely themed Hawaiian homeless hang out».
Unfortunately this where FukuBurger is located, that review coming soon and by the way, FukuBurger killed it! Anyway, this place really is just a shell of what could have been or what is used to be. There are few other restaurants in here and a soon to be tourist trap bar that sells those plastic foot long boozy drinks. Don’t you just love those types of tourist?
Just come here for FukuBurger and maybe to get your day drunk on, Midwest style!

Okay, I’ve never been to the Hawaiian Marketplace until I stopped by just recently with my last trip to Vegas. So I really don’t know what this place was like during its hey day. It’s pretty depressing to see so many vacant shops and restaurant spaces in this area which isn’t such a bad place to hang out and chill. It is nice to see somewhat of a resurgence though with new businesses opening up such as Chili’s, Fukuburger, and Pineapple Park. Not sure if that’s enough to breath new life into Hawaiian Marketplace, but I hope they help kickstart a new era to help out this almost desolate area of the Strip.

Fun area. Fuku Burger makes it.

Nothing Hawaiian about it. The venue has potential but none of the vendors had anything Hawaiian in their stalls. No Hawaiian food no nothing. The ABC store down the street a block was crowded and every customer had a basket of stuff, crazy.

Lame in my opinion.
Super dead, and very few options of food and shopping.
You want a Hawaiian marketplace? Fork out the cash and go to Hawaii instead!

There is absolutely nothing Hawaiian here. Not even a Aloha shirt, hula doll or a Tiki. Just really cheap garbage. I wasted my time thinking there would be at least a bit of Hawaiiana.
Simply do not go here if that is what you are looking for.

So sad. What is the Hawaiian Marketplace anyway? It’s just a few quick serve food joints, businesses out of carts, and a shell of a building with only an Indian restaurant and cobwebs of where other restaurants were. Walking the Strip, you have to go through the outdoor market because there is no sidewalk to go on instead.
Where did they go wrong? There is nothing to draw people to the marketplace except by forcing them to walk through it. Nobody has ever said «hey, let’s go to that cheap Mexican restaurant in the Hawaiian Marketplace and do some karaōke». Yes, they have outdoor karaōke at night. People go to the strip to go to casinos. They are not going to go out of their way for anything the Hawaiian Marketplace has to offer. It’s too bad, because I am sure the real estate is worth a mint.

Why do they call this the Hawaiian Marketplace? Nothing Hawaiian in here. Being Hawaiian born, I was immediately displeased walking into this dump. Old, grungy, with cheap souvenir junk. Stay away. Outside and dreadful during the hot summer months.

I, like most others, didn’t get that this was Hawaiian, after seeing pictures, I thought Oh I’ve been here, walked through every time I was in Vegas actually.
Never bought anything, it’s kind of scattered souveniers, overpriced spray on tattoos, stuff that no one really needs.
Still, it’s a nice break up from walking casino after casino and a part of the Vegas strip, A OK to that.

Kiosk area with random assortment of items. The biggest positives of this area is the Tix4Tonight store and the fans with water misters… Everything else there is just «meh» in my opinion. Nothing to make as a destination.

Went to the foot massage place near the back of the marketplace. The foot massage was really good, but the guy was very very insistent on selling more massages. I don’t have a problem saying no, so I was fine. $ 20 for 20 min foot massage. Very worth it after spending hours walking around.

This is a bunch of little kiosks selling random tchotchkes, knick knacks, and temporary tattoos. Nothing special here. There is a half priced tickets booth here which is probably the most useful thing in the whole place. You can get some $ 2 tacos and pizza too for your post-​drinking binge needs. In general, I’d advise you to avoid it.

Like many others, I don’t get the concept of the Hawaiian Marketplace. The last thing it is is Hawaiian.
It’s a mish mosh of shops, kiosks and restaurants that don’t really belong together. It looks promising from afar like a mirage. Then you get there and it’s a pretty big disappointment.
Next time, don’t cross the street, don’t stop, don’t bother.

It’s right on the strip and it’s outdoors. There’s a karaōke as well if you feel like taking on the creative side. The crowd is very diverse, from drunk tourists to regulars and night workers.
You could talk to Batman or the Joker there, they work just around the corner and go there to have drink break.
There’s a also food offered till late so if hungry you could grab a bite from the fast food menu.

Wow, not sure what the deal is here. It’s effin weird! The vibe, the people, the combination of items being sold… add it all up and you got a strange ass place. A Hawaiian vibe is NOT being projected here at all.
We actually came here to go to an Indian food restaurant inside (never ended up going there). The inside of the building was dead… lots of empty stores and odd outdated Hawaiian decorations around. We ended up leaving since it was so trashy and creepy.
The only pleasant thing was the mist fans outside.

Hawaiian Marketplace needs to change its name. Because it’s not. You’ll see a lot of smaller vendors in the front along with an Indian restaurant in the back building, but there is really nothing appealing or related to Hawaii. Supposedly this takes after the International Marketplace in Downtown Waikiki, but lots of vacancies on the inside and now on the second level in the front building is definitely not a good sign…
They do have some interesting and good entertainment on stage from 1−5pm and again from 6−10pm.
As some of the other reviewers have mentioned, go to the nearest ABC Store and they have even more things that are closer to Hawaiian (at Showcase Mall and Miracle Mile Shops).

This was still kind of a cool spot on the strip. Well at least something to do for the one night you are in Las Vegas and kind of wanna take it easy that night.
–I had done the club things nights and nights before so on the last night basically wanted to just chill in the Marketplace area and enjoy a few beers out in the yard with the family till like 11pm or so. There were some nice cheap T-​Shirt vendors to go to. I stayed right near here at the Polo Towers last June.

Where the fuck are all the Hawaiian shops and stuff?
There’s an indian resto, a Flip resto and a catfish resto up in this bizz.
The closest thing to Hawaiian on the strip is the ABC store.
WTF.

Having just gotten back from Hawaii 2 weeks ago and being asked «what island are you from» from our server earlier that day, we headed over to Hawaiian Marketplace with high expectations. I was also looking for malasadas …
It’s disappointing here. Still, we found a tix4tonight booth so it wasn’t a total loss. For those of you looking for a bit of the island flavor during your visit to LV, don’t bother, you won’t find it here.

The Hawaiian Marketplace is made to resemble International Marketplace in Waikiki, except, they don’t really sell the same stuff as they do in Waikiki. Little kiosks are set up to sell various items and there are girls dressed in hula wear enticing passers by to come in and watch the Polynesian show they have at certain times of the day.
The girls are accomodating and will take photos with visitors. There are restaurants and souvenir stores in and around the area also.