{"id":22508,"date":"2015-04-09T05:51:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T05:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/welcome-to-lanai-one-of-hawaiis-best-kept-secrets\/"},"modified":"2015-04-09T05:51:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T05:51:47","slug":"welcome-to-lanai-one-of-hawaiis-best-kept-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/city\/hawaii\/welcome-to-lanai-one-of-hawaiis-best-kept-secrets.html","title":{"rendered":"Welcome To Lanai, One Of Hawaii&#8217;s Best Kept Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The island of Lanai is one of Hawaii&#8217;s best kept secrets.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of a smallest, least-populated islands in a Hawaiian archipelago. Few mainlanders even know it exists as it can usually be accessed <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">by packet or tiny craft around Maui or Oahu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Billionaire Larry Ellison, however, did notice this still isle and, in 2012, he <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">purchased 98 percent of it<\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">all of a hotel rooms<\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">environmental Utopia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, what creates this destiny tolerable wonderland so special? For starters, it has both all and zero that you&#8217;d design from a pleasant island. <\/p>\n<p>With a aged nation charm, imperishable terrain, dull beaches and forests of soaring hunger trees, a small island of Lanai feels like someone plopped a old-fashioned Colorado encampment down in a center of a Pacific.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lanai island aerial\" src=\"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/RSSPoster_PRO\/cache\/759ad_o-LANAI-ISLAND-AERIAL-570.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><big><strong>A Rugged  Secluded Paradise<\/strong><\/big><\/p>\n<p>You won&#8217;t find hordes of selfie stick-wielding tourists on Lanai. The Pineapple Island &#8212; that was once home to a world&#8217;s largest pineapple camp &#8212; boasts a series of isolated beaches, hikes and viewpoints that need a 4-wheel expostulate usually to get to.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lanai\" src=\"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/RSSPoster_PRO\/cache\/26452_o-LANAI-570.jpg\" \/><small><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Sweetheart Rock, aka Puu Pehe,<\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Manele Bay<\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Hulopoe Bay<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n<p>In fact, you&#8217;ll need 4WD to get to many of a island&#8217;s attractions. Lanai offers 400 miles of imperishable mud roads that lead we <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">through rainforests<\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Mount Lanaihale<\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">ancient petroglyphs<\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Garden of a Gods<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"munro route lanai\" src=\"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/RSSPoster_PRO\/cache\/acd9c_o-MUNRO-TRAIL-LANAI-570.jpg\" \/><small><\/p>\n<p>The timberland on a <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Munro Trail atop Lanai&#8217;s Mt. Lanaihale<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n<p>If we wish to knowledge a internal island color, conduct to Lanai City, a island&#8217;s usually city and home to scarcely <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">all of a 3,000 residents<\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">eclectic mom and cocktail shops<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lanai city\" src=\"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/RSSPoster_PRO\/cache\/ee7e2_o-LANAI-CITY-570.jpg\" \/><small><\/p>\n<p>Pine trees on Lanai (yes, really, this is Hawaii)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n<p><big><strong>Just The Right Amount Of Luxury<\/strong><\/big><\/p>\n<p>Lanai usually has 3 hotel options: One old-fashioned chronological lodge and dual Four Season resorts. One night in <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Hotel Lanai<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The dual Four Seasons Resorts offer decidedly opposite personalities of a island. <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">The Lanai during Manele Bay<\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">The Lodge At Koele<\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">deer ramble a woods<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"manele bay\" src=\"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/RSSPoster_PRO\/cache\/10157_o-MANELE-BAY-570.jpg\" \/><small><\/p>\n<p>The pool during The Lanai during Manele Bay.<\/p>\n<p><\/small><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"golf march lanai\" src=\"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/RSSPoster_PRO\/cache\/c5c47_o-GOLF-COURSE-LANAI-570.jpg\" \/><small><\/p>\n<p>Cliffside golf march during Four Seasons&#8217; Lanai during Manele Bay.<\/p>\n<p><\/small><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"koele lanai\" src=\"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/RSSPoster_PRO\/cache\/ad5fe_o-KOELE-LANAI-570.jpg\" \/><small><\/p>\n<p>A fast during a Four Seasons Lodge during Koele.<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n<p>With all a isolated beauty, removing to Lanai is no easy feat. If you&#8217;re formulation a outing there, you&#8217;ll have to fly into a island of Maui and <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">catch a packet that leaves from Lahaina 5 times a day<\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Hawaiian Airline&#8217;s daily flights<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also fly <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Island Air<\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">bought by Ellison himself<\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">shuttles to and from Oahu and Lanai 5 times a day<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/04\/08\/lanai-hawaii_n_6972524.html?utm_hp_ref=hawaii&amp;ir=Hawaii<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The island of Lanai is one of Hawaii&#8217;s best kept secrets. It&#8217;s one of a smallest, least-populated islands in a Hawaiian archipelago. Few mainlanders even know it exists as it can usually be accessed by packet or tiny craft around Maui or Oahu Billionaire Larry Ellison, however, did notice this still isle and, in 2012, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-22508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaii","tag-hawaii-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}