At the Outrigger Reef on the Beach in Waikiki, the rate is usually $450 a night.
Besides the Outrigger hotels, there are eight condos offering this rate on two-bedroom apartments, including the Maui Eldorado Resort, the Lae nani Resort on Kauai and the Outrigger Royal Sea Cliff on the Big Island.
To get to the beach I had to walk across the street and through a narrow, shadowy concrete alley between the Outrigger Reef and Halekulani hotels.
A few hurdles remain, but the kitchen is being rebuilt, and the outrigger canoes and kayaks that were frequent visitors are on their way back.
As of Friday, the Outrigger Waikiki on the Beach had collected only four cans, but the guest services manager, Debbie Murakami, was hoping for more.
Join the sunset celebrations at the Outrigger Beach Resort or dine at Nervous Nellies or Smokin' Oyster Brewery (SOB) at nearby Times Square.
HAWAII IN THE FALL -- The Outrigger Hotels and Resorts are offering reduced prices for fall at two condominium properties on the big island, Hawaii, and on Oahu, through Dec. 21.
"Some see the outrigger canoe as a thing of the past, but it's a tool that has survived 2,000 years and it will survive 2,000 more," he says.
At the Outrigger Luana Waikiki, on Oahu a studio unit without a kitchen is as little as $115 a night (reduced from $210) or a one-bedroom suite with kitchen for as low as $195 a night (usually $325).
The outrigger placement problem is solved using topology optimization.
A parameter called the outrigger efficiency factor (OEF) is defined to quantify the contribution of the outrigger system to the overall overturning stiffness of a SPSW-O.
