They seem to have cheaper prices than other booking companies and supposedly they mail my tickets to me. Are they sly and I really will have to listen to timeshare stuff?? thanks
Any one booked with outriggeractivities.com??
I don%26#39;t know much about them except they are affiliated with Outrigger hotels.
It is not a time share activity center.
Keep in mind that if you plan to use any Entertainment Book coupons or any other coupons, they won%26#39;t accept the coupons if you book through an activity center like Outrigger or any other.
Any one booked with outriggeractivities.com??
I don%26#39;t know anything about the competitiveness of their prices....
But you can depend upon Outrigger. They are quite trustworthy and consumer oriented, afterall they are one of the largest hoteliers in the state and owned by a Kamaaina family.
Outrigger has co-partnered w/ Embassy Suites, Wyndum, and Fairfield Resorts in the new Beachwalk area.
Fairfield Resorts was the major money contributer to the Wyndum Resort formally the Reef Towers Hotel. Embassy Suites now runs the old Waikiki Village/Waikiki Towers. Fairfield Resorts has desks in all Outrigger Properties. Wyndum %26amp; Fairfield are heavy pushers of timeshare.
As a matter of fact ,Outrigger Activties is the ticketing agent for Fairfield for both the Outrigger Reef and the Wyndum Resort for all time share presentations.
The Kelly Family who owns the Outrigger Hotels have lived in Denver for over 10 years. Kamaaina-- not any more.
You can still get better prices from agents in Waikiki.
The reason I know, is I worked for Ourtigger Activities for over 7 years.
And, they continue to be among my best clients for the last quarter-century ...
Dave Carey, CEO, son-in-law and successor to Roy and the Doctor, is out at the family compound in Diamond Head, and many of that huge Irish family are still around. Although, the days have passed when nieces, nephews and others would come in for summer vacation and take over one of their hotels.
They are the most kamaaina of the major hoteliers in the State. Andre Tatibouet is gone as is Aston to mainland ResortQuest, Starwood and Marriott (both mainland) have increased their stakes, Hyatt and Hilton each control thousands of rooms.
You would have to devolve down to something like the Surf-Seaside hotels to find a more ';local'; chain than Outrigger.
it is amazing how many hotel ';managers'; in Hawaii have started at Outrigger in the past twenty-plus years.
Plus, they have shown a willingness to make substanial investment in the urban resort they helped create piece by piece over time....some half a billion in the Lewers St. neighborhood at the new Beach Walk, at the Outrigger Reef, and several other projects in the area. Insuring the success of the most vital asset in the Hawaii economy.
If they ain%26#39;t kamaaina, then no major player in the statewide tourism industry can possibly lay claim to that moniker.
Nice article on this very subject just a couple of weeks ago. See:
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Amberloo,
Outrigger has not helped the local economy. They have put many mom %26amp; pop business who were located near Lewers St. out of business.
Corporate America is loving the new Beachwalk Complex.
Now that the complex is almost complete, the landlords from nearby properties have also increased their rents, so the only companies that can afford to have a store in Waikiki are mainland investors.
Embassy Suites has outpriced the average American from being able to travel to Hawaii.
Lewers Street was the main hub for many school groups and sports teams to be able to afford to come to Oahu to compete. Ask anyone who worked in the area. The Outrigger%26#39;s on Lewers St. were one of the few hotels that would allow 4 people to one room. These same school groups/sports teams are now heading to Mexico %26amp; Florida.
Before this contruction, the hotels on Lewers St were always 90% full. I am speaking of the Waikiki Village, Waikiki Towers, Reef Towers, %26amp; Edgewater.
Now that the Embassy is charging $350.00 per night +, their occupency (during June ) is at 60% if they are lucky. Outrigger %26amp; Embassy Hotels are now charging $25.00 a day to park your car (Valet Only).
Embassy has combined 4 hotels into one - and they are still only 60% full? Last month their occupency was down to 50%.
How is that helping our economy? Let alone all the workers from 4 hotels that were combined into one.
Now the rest of Waikiki is fallen into the ';Beachwalk'; mentality.
Many property owners now believe that we need to make Waikiki into a 3 star shopping resort. These are the same stores you can find in LA, San Francisco, %26amp; Europe etc.. Look at what they did to DFS, they took out the beautiful aquarium to make way for ';high end'; stores.
Walk through Waikiki - it is empty. Talk to business and they will tell you that they have not seen business this slow since 9-11.
In regards to the Kelly%26#39;s property in Diamond Head, do you know that the security guards (employed by Outrigger) who were hired there had to be a ';white male';. No African Americans or ';Locals'; or women were allowed to do duty on their premises.
Old man Kelly (used with affection) was a great a business man who helped Hawaii prosper by leaps and bounds, but that is not the Outrigger of today.
Yes....
Outrigger should have let Waikiki rot on the vine. Thus allowing time and decay to ruin the work of three generations of hard work.
Sure the Lewers Street was funky, quaint and cheap....or to look at it another way, dirty, decaying, dying and non-performing.
Most of those ancient buildings were just plain gross; several of them were vacat and boarded up and none had modern systems or met ADA/Other standards. I was intimately familiar with them all.
Outrigger spent a heck of a lot of time, effort and money over two decade just to prepare for the opportuninty to pour more than a half biliion (with a ';B';) into the revitalization of just a few square blocks of Waikiki. Now, that%26#39;s forward looking.
Interior Waikiki has moved markedly upwards of late. Room rates everywhere have shot through the roof, partly because of the general upcycle in tourism since 9/11 and mostly because so many properties have spent millions on upgrades.
For example, have you seen the remodled Waikiki Wave (old coral Reef) yet...talk about making a silk purse out of a sows ear. And, what happens when you refurbish and ';freshen'; a hotel ? Why the room rates go up.....such is the way of things.
I guess we should have preserved Waikiki like it was when I first moved there in the late 70s. It was quaint and cheap throughout. A dying resort area with hookers and drug dealers running rampant, shabby buildings, dirty streets and sidewalks, dangerous back roads and the ambience of a slum.
And I don%26#39;t know who you are talking with, but you are waaaaaay off in saying Waikiki is slow or in the worst shape since 9/11. No statistics bear that out. Even though the mainland economy is no longer as strong as it was a couple of years ago and jet fuel prices are through the roof, 2007 will still be one of the top few years all-time for Waikiki. All of the numbers support this.
Sorry you have such obvious ill-will towards Outrigger, but they are a great local company who has helped better the economy on Oahu and the islands as much as any in the State.
