Where to Stay A $27 million makeover has given the 783-room beach-front Renaissance Ilikai Waikiki Hotel, 1777 Ala Moana Boulevard, (800) 245-4524, fax (808) 947-4523, www.ilikaihotel.com, a breezy, tropical feel and spiffy, colorful rooms, many of which overlook the yacht harbor.
These cellular hot spots are fantastic companions on long car rides, offsite meetings, movie shoots on location, trade show booths, hotel rooms, beaches, airplanes stuck on runways and anywhere else where Wi-Fi is costly or nonexistent.
You can choose between beachside rooms, village-side rooms and beach huts, each a simple bed-bathroom-mosquito net affair, retaining the old Goan feel (at old Goa prices) while offering good service, proper coffee and decent food in the charming communal area.
Do you want a traditional living room with beach decorations and colors or do you want the whole thing to evoke a beach?
"He was really on that day," testified Mr. Young, who recalled sitting in the back of the room in beach clothes.
Based on the activity of security personnel, Wolfeboro residents believe Mr. Sarkozy is staying in a lakefront estate that boasts a 15-seat media room, private beach and 11 bathrooms.
The white hotel has 144 rooms for beach lovers, surfers, divers, trail runners, yogis and spa-toners.
In June, the 140-room SLS Hotel South Beach at 1701 Collins Avenue opened in the shell of the former Ritz Plaza, a historic Art Deco structure.
The outlook is bleaker at a landmark near the airport, the 600-room Maho Beach Hotel, where the beach and three beach restaurants were damaged.
Also on the strip is the 433-room Westin Beach Resort, Fort Lauderdale, which was the Sheraton Yankee Trader until 2008, when it closed for a makeover and a name change.
