My First Impressions of Honolulu, Hawaii (Waikiki Beach)
what's up bro there a quarter I don't have a quarter on me Dollar don't have a dollar there's so many people out here right now it's impressive a burger $17.95 that's actually not terrible that's not too bad at all Hawaiian pool pork tacos $16.95 wow these are beautiful oh thank you wow umbrellas and two chairs $30 for 2 hours man makes me miss Thailand what's up everybody Welcome to the beautiful island of Hawaii now I actually got here nice and early this morning um of a well 27-hour journey is what it took us to get here from Thailand and I'm super excited to be here this is the last stat on my list out of all 50 in the United States I can't believe it's taken me so long I've been to 75 other countries but the island of Hawaii is a place that I've been missing and it's quite crazy because I'm from Long Beach California and we got direct flights here it's only about 5 hours away and actually quite affordable to get to and yes it's taking me this long but nonetheless we're here we're in beautiful W Kiki Beach right now there's all kinds of restaurants cafes clothing shops around um the area of my hotel and today I'm going to walk around and talk to you guys a little bit about what's up bro there a quarter I don't have a quarter on me Dollar don't have a dollar oh man you making a video yeah I'm making a little video get the W on it of course are you from Hawaii of course oh okay where you from California bro California yeah I'm from Long Beach yeah Snoop Dog yeah Snoop Dog bro of course well take care man wish I had a dollar take care bro um but yeah what happened here Snoop Dogg is here yeah hopefully we run into him then oh really okay marshan Lynch too take care bro so yeah um this is actually the very first few minutes that I'm walking around here in wakiki I just arrived went straight to bed and well now I'm hitting the streets to walk around for the very first time so I want to show you guys my first impressions of wakiki and of course talk to you guys a little bit of or a little bit about a few of the prices and things that I've come to known just since I've arrived here but yeah I'm realizing that a based off of my drive there's all kinds of international cuisine look Italian restaurant wow this spot looks beautiful Little Italy might have to come there for dinner now um right now I'm actually staying at wakiki Malia oh thank you sir wakiki Malia it's a hotel located well right there actually our room should be somewhere up in this corner and and it's nothing too fancy it's not the Hilton or any of the big Resorts that can be found here in this area I'm not too sure what's going on this week but everything's crazy expensive and we spent $250 $50 a night for that room plus a $50 Resort fee every night I'm not sure why in America Resort fees exist but they're quite crazy and they add up quite fast oh man these are nice dresses shirts I definitely should pick myself up something a little bit colorful for this Hawaii series but nonetheless I'm not really worried about the prices right now this is a destination that I have been dreaming about visiting for so many years and the fact that I'm here right now is quite impressive I remember growing up in Long Beach California um very lower class watching my Mom struggle um not having anything in life and dreaming about one day visiting Hawaii because I seen it all over the the movies all over postcards um on TV commercials and this was actually one of my biggest dream destinations I remember in school we had a question come up I believe it was sixth grade and the teacher asked me in the whole class what is your dream destination and really I didn't know much about the world but I right away wrote down Hawaii and I think I even spelled it wrong but we're here dreams come true but um yeah right now the weather's actually quite nice it's 5: in the afternoon or in the evening better yet sun should be set in here shortly so let's wander around and make our way down to wakiki beach I believe it's straight down this way it looks like there's all kinds of luxury shops here on this street I see a Hermes over in this corner what's up bro hey how you doing good watching your videos Thailand wow thank you guys so much man I didn't I didn't expect to run into anybody here in Hawaii really yeah it's my first day I just got here oh really never been to Hawaii before where you from we live here oh really but actually I'm originally from Long Beach you're from Long Beach too yeah man what's your name bro Larry Larry Chris uh Juliet Juliet Chris man this is amazing so how long you've been living in Hawaii for about six years years wow dude this place is awesome I was just telling everybody that I had been dreaming about coming to this place ever since I was a young kid when I didn't really know much about the world like Hawaii was always on on the TV on movies and now I'm here I can't believe it it's so beautiful how long you guys been living you I mean you've been living here for 7 years but you came from Long Beach well actually actually I grew up in Long Beach and I went to high school went to Milan Milan yeah yeah yeah I went there and but then I went I I later on I joined the Navy okay cool I was in San Diego for while then I got stationed here in Pearl Harbor so I got to see how Hawaii was and stuff so I fig later on hey I like to moood in Hawaii the weather's great and everything's perfect so is this is this cold weather here in Hawaii right now this is normal no this is every oh 365 days a year never gets cold never gets hot wow it's Paradise that's amazing well thank you so much for your service and thank you for watching I was in the YY for 5 years as well but um never made it to Hawaii I was in Seattle at the complete opposite of Hawaii rain GL is here with you or not yeah she's here she's wandering around somewhere she didn't want to be on camera right now because she's jet lag we we had a 27-hour journey from Bangkok from Bangkok um yeah we flew Bangkok uh 9 hours to Melbourne 7 hours layover there and then 10 hours here wow yeah it was ridiculous yeah we just came from Faya dude that place is amazing well thank you guys so much it was a pleasure meeting you thank you so much I hope you guys enjoy the Hawaii videos fun yeah yeah thank you take care man that is amazing I love the I love YouTube it connects the whole world I didn't think I was going to run into any subscribers here in Hawaii especially on my first walk amazing amazing what life what life brings right guys but um yeah I forget what I was saying this area looks like you know it could be a luxurious shopping district I mean I see a Hermes store over here on this corner what is that a YSL store Tiffany and Co Steve Madden but there's also you know some affordable options as as well Victoria Secret Sephora that's glat is's favorite store but yeah this place is a Vibe I can see why um that lovely couple we just met have stayed here I mean it's it's amazing but I must say I'm kind of thrown off by the prices I'll talk to you guys about how much I paid for breakfast as soon as I arrived here in a second um but let's not dive on into all that um all that stuff right now because you guys want to see the palm trees and hear about other exciting things so this is the wakiki shopping plaza might have to come spend a little bit of time in there Harry winon Tor bir I actually know Tory bir because glattus has some sunglasses from there but um other than that I don't know too much about clothing brands and stuff guys just you know I've come accustomed to re reading or trying to pronounce these names um over time because of all the places that I visit so it looks like here they have the um rent of bike stations where you can actually purchase a bike and rent to walk around or drive around and explore wakiki wow this place is beautiful all right well now since we're stuck at a red light let me just talk to you guys about breakfast so this morning I went to IHOP because there was literally an IHOP hop right downstairs from the hotel and man it was the most expensive IHOP I've ever been to in my life I I I thought that when people were going to say it's going to be expensive I was thinking you know just standard US prices but no for bacon eggs and pancakes and a hash brown I paid $24 so for glattus and I to have breakfast with coffees it came out to $65 quite ridiculous for IHOP even back at home IHOP tends to be a a little bit more on the pricier side of things but you're still spending 13 to 14 us uh per meal not $65 for two people so that was my first like shocker I was like wow this is going to be an expensive week I better start making videos because I need to make some money you know what I'm saying but um yeah I should make a video later on this week where I take you guys on a full day with me around wakiki and just talk to you guys all about prices and how much you could expect to spend in one day here here in Hawaii but yeah I just noticed a ladi's walking around with a surfboard this might be the first place in the United States where I've seen people just walking around with surfboards on the streets now where I live there's not really too great of surf we do have Huntington Beach which is like the surf capital of the US but I don't actually live in Huntington Beach and every time I do go I only see really Surfers in the water not really walking the streets with their boards and often times when the Surfers get out of the water they go straight to their trucks and leave here there's people walking around with surfboards it's crazy all right what is this another big shopping center it looks like actually right here it says they got a Cheesecake Factory Island village a Thai restaurant you know what let's not walk in there just yet because I have a feeling if I walk into the shopping mall then I'm going to end up doing some shopping I actually just purchased these Oakleys in the airport on the way here because yeah I lost my rayb bands once again I left them in a taxi but then I saw these bad boys and I was like man these look fly so if you guys like these style what is it called Oakley hstn I'll leave a link for them down below because you guys always give me good compliments on my sunglasses and you know what I think once I learn to not lose them I think I'm going to start purchasing a couple more pairs that way I can switch them up for the videos and not um wear the same exact style glasses every single time hello everybody's having a good time out here look Lululemon ABC Stores Rip Curl Foot Locker fendy and apple I actually need to go to the Apple Store I lost my Cube my charging Cube look this is what I means surfboards everywhere I heard a lot of good things about about this hotel actually this is what a lot of my friends recommended to me beach wakiki beach comr hotel but it was $450 a night when I was checking it and to be honest I just can't justify that guys especially for it not being allinclusive or anything like can't justify spending that much money to sleep they got a Macy's Jimmy Chu oh man we're in the shopping the heart of the shopping district I feel like I like this Cheesecake Factory you might have to go there for dinner you know what I'm saying oh man feels so good to be back in the US as well and in an island paradise in America most people travel you know 14 15 hours across the world to visit a beautiful island when you know we have Hawaii that is only about a 5H hour flight from California but to be completely honest with you guys my hotel reservation for three nights with the resort fees was $1,100 and then for the next three nights I believe it was $1350 with that $2,700 that I spent just on accommodation you can literally fly to a place like Thailand go to an island stay in a resort for 10 days you know get massages every single they eat amazing food and you'll probably still come back with some money in the bank so I see why a lot of people prefer taking those long flights but man this place is awesome I have a feeling I'm going to be coming back here a lot a lot more often Balenciaga Rolex Tesla building and I was actually talking to the Uber driver on the way here this morning and he was actually telling me that here on aahu on the main island that we're on right now the Big Island there's primarily a huge um Asian population that a lot of people that live here on the island are primarily Asian and mainly Filipino he did say there was a couple um well a bit of Thai people a bit of cambodians but here what you're mainly going to find is Filipinos and I found that quite interesting and he also so what else what else did you what was I going to oh and he also told me that there's not many um African-American or Mexicans that live here on aahu he said you'll find um those demographics more so in Maui so interesting just thought that I throw that out there because you know the beautiful thing about living in the United States is when you're walking around the big cities or the streets um it's hard well you look at everybody and everybody looks so different but everybody's American you know what I'm saying just from different um Multicultural backgrounds but here in Hawaii I can't tell who's a who's a local or who's a tourist I have a feeling that most people are tourists though that you're seeing here on these streets so yeah I learn more about this island about um Hawaii in general throughout the week and a half that I'm here oh this place looks awesome the Moana Surf Rider a Weston Resort ooh that place looks fat guys I feel like the the damn president walking up into there can't wait to try myself some you know some Hawaiian uh barbecue spam what is it called spam masubi everybody was telling me about we're going to be doing some serious eating and the Uber driver that brought me here since he's like the only real local I've had an interaction with today um he actually told me that here in W Kiki Beach they actually have a big street food truck scene so we're going to have to dabble in that as well throughout this week like everybody's walking around with their floaties yo man it's good vibes out here let me know what you guys think of these streets so far what are your first impressions and if you've been to Hawaii drop all your recommendations down below don't be selfish drop all your recommendations down below and uh leave recommendations for hotels beaches to visit other Islands to visit because a lot of people are going to be watching these videos planning a trip to Hawaii and it's selfish to withhold all that information all right guys especially cuz I'm no expert I'm only sharing with you guys oh was loud I'm just sharing with you guys um yeah everything that I'm seeing for the first time oh man all right and here we are this is the beach this is what everybody comes to Hawaii for are the beautiful beaches so let's walk on up there and get our first Glimpse at what a beach looks like here in Hawaii and I must say after being in Southeast Asia excuse me for 3 months This breeze this nice cool weather is exactly what I was needing these must be surfboard rentals oh man the beach is packed today it's popping look the life guard towers are out all kinds of uh surfboards people chilling on their towels man this is a Vibe look it looks like this gentleman right here probably rents out beach chairs it's hard not to walk around here and not smile wow this is amazing you can see all kinds of cargo ships sailboats out into the distance yeah the beach is full and you can actually see where it bends on over and comes to an end and from what I was reading online this is actually a a man-made Beach it's very cool okay so this must not be the right on way let's walk let's actually just crush on through here we'll crush on through this way oh you know what I'm going to walk in a puddle if I do that let's not do that actually let's make our way around this way yeah this looks like it could be a small little cafe of some sort haiki Beachside beastro but yeah look a burger 1795 that's actually not terrible that's not too bad at all Hawaiian pool pork tacos 1695 that's not too bad but it does look closed at the moment maybe it was open during the during the uh middle of the day yeah maybe that's exactly why all of the chairs are stacked now maybe as Sunset starts approaching they start closing down the beach wow there's a lot of police officers as well so yeah it has to be a pretty safe area oh here here we go guys look dive aahu and surf surf lessons $149 each for a private session $125 semi-private $99 for a group but you got to have four people board rentals $20 1 hour $30 2 hours canoe rides $30 uh paddler you can get umbrellas wow umbrellas and two chairs $30 for 2 hours man makes me miss Thailand yo Thailand you could pay $3 for an umbrella and a chair the entire day and um when I was in Sri Lanka actually they do private surfing classes plus a full day surfboard rental for $20 crazy how expensive the US is but I mean this is beautiful it's special and I have a feeling that a lot of people probably end up coming here or come here you know as a onetime thing it's a one it's a dream vacation that they come to you know once in their life so you have to splurge but yeah don't think I'm taking any surfing lessons in Hawaii let alone even I might not even have I might not even rent an umbrella not for $30 man crazy but man look at this guys this is beautiful wow this boat's pretty impressive too yeah this is awesome everybody's just out here living their lives should have definitely put on some sunscreen before coming out here though all right let's continue on with our little walk let's walk down down the coastline of this beach and see where we end up there's actually a statue of someone up here the surfboard behind him it says Duke paa Kahana moku it says that raised in wakiki Duke was a full-blooded Hawaiian who symbolized Hawaii to millions of people he developed into an Olympic champion and the world's fastest swimmer between 1912 and 1932 he won three gold medals two silver and the bronze and four Olympics he is well known as the father of international surfing wow sounds like a legend he sounds like a legend all right let's continue not so yeah it looks like this area is you know pretty much dedicated to the um shop oh we got some vendors out here oh did you just make a mess I saw that wow these are beautiful oh thank you I make these myself you make these yourself how long have you been making the jewelry for a few years now oh okay are you from Hawaii I love here this place is beautiful it's my first day here oh have fun how much are your bracelets uh that's a 30 30 $ yeah they're real pearls oh they're real pearls wow these are beautiful thank cute I like these where do you get the pearls from here oh no there's no pearls no I don't really know much about pearls to be fair wow this is beautiful also is this for a wrist it's wrist yeah man it's kind of I think it's kind of small for for you no for my girlfriend I thought extension with her you can how much are these ones um 30 these ones are 32 field beads and the real shell you don't have anything for a 20 around here no change this and 20 these ones are 20 that's way like way nicer yeah this one's beautiful okay okay well you know what let me get some cash and then I'll make my way back sure thank you so much man beautiful jewelry you seen that takes a lot of hard work but yeah I only have a $20 bill on me I got to get some cash before I start walking around and trying to um make some purchases but yeah that little bracelet man was Tiny it's a tiny little thing but I'll be back I'll come back and support her local business it's nice seeing all the surfboards on the beach man it's a Vibe all right I don't really know where I'm going with this video but I hope you guys are enjoying this walk because you know I was looking up all kinds of content on Hawaii all kinds of stuff about the big island that I'm at right now and to be honest the videos really didn't show too much about The Vibes they didn't really um show too much uh about what the streets are looking like just throughout the day so I was like you know what let me change that so I hope you guys are enjoying this but look at what I just stumbled across how impressive is this tree it looks like it's a whole bunch of trees mixed together and they just somehow got yeah mixed up cuz I mean look at that piece up there it looks like it's a tree that's chopped impressive that is a nice tree if I've ever seen a nice tree that is a nice one all right how many minutes are we at now 25 minutes of of talking Chris what do you do like what do you talk about in 25 minutes bro but you guys love these long videos so I figured why not let's make them even longer but yeah the tree is impressive imagine that you come all the way to Hawaii and you're Blown Away by the tree that's my life in a nutshell okay this is awesome look we got another lady out here making a vlog this beach actually looks a lot more um better for the swimming that one looks a bit rougher but I think this is all W Kiki Beach if I'm not mistaken wow there's so many people out here right now it's impressive all right well you know what guys I'm not really sure um what else I'm going to come across maybe I'll turn the camera back on as we make it further down the beach but yeah overall I'm pretty blown away by this place it's super beautiful and I think I'm really going to come to love it here and it might turn into one of those places that I come and visit quite often I really got to bring my mom here I wish my grandma wasn't scared of flights because I'd love to bring her here to see this beautiful this beautiful island but um definitely going to have to bring mom's out here for a nice little getaway in the near future especially with all those direct flights oh wow look there's an egg in things I love that restaurant I tried it in Japan for the first time but it's actually from Hawaii well you know what guys this is going to this is going to be the end of this little video if I see something else interesting up the road I'll tune back on and you know show you guys that but for now look forward to the rest of the series here in Hawaii we're going to be getting into some pretty interesting things over the course of the next few weeks uh over the course of the next few days but the series should run about 2 weeks and yeah I look forward to showing you guys what this island has to offer oh and look at this they got a Mickey D they got a McDonald's and it's the first McDonald's I've ever seen without a golden arch it's not yellow I know that there are some places in the world where McDonald's is actually not allowed to put their big yellow M um like in a lot of old towns in Europe where else have I seen that in Peru and the and the in Cusco and the old Square they're not allowed to put their big uh McDonald's logo so maybe that's um the reason why this one here is not yellow maybe for that same reason but yeah guys this here is wakiki Beach I hope you enjoyed this video let me know what you guys thought of it down below and I'll see you guys again soon for another one from here in Hawaii later guys take love
2024-01-08 07:04
