Honolulu in July 2011: Day 6

July 7, 2011

We visited Outrigger Reef Hotel to have a buffet breakfast provided by Club Wyndham; after that, their Japanese sales rep, Mitue, explained the system and took us a tour for their time-share. Since I have the time-share of the Hilton Grand Vacations Club, she recommended to purchase a smallest share of their Waikiki condo near Trump. Hilton's point is also transferred to Wyndham's point (Hilton 7,200 → Wyndham 77,000). They call it PIC or rescue. It turned out that Wyndham is the pioneer of the time-share business. It costs 1.12 million JPY in total, including all the discounts, taxes, and expenses. Their management fee is also cheap, 24,000 JPY or so per annum. That said, I thought I should make full use of Hilton Grand Vacations Club, I decided not to buy it.

Then we went to DFS to purchase souvenirs.

We got back to hotel around 3PM and met our friends, a man and his wife, who are almost the same age of our parents. The man who talked to my wife at Haneda Airport happened to sit next to us and we promised to meet while in Honolulu. His wife flew from D.C. to Honolulu. We were invited to their 2LDK room of Lagoon tower; they originally planned to share the room with their friends, but their friends did not come due to the earthquake and turmoil in March 11, 2011. We had a nice talk and his wife showed us a great hula dance. After my wife and our daughter going back to our room at 6:30PM, I remained in the room and continued to talk to him until 9PM. We both were drunk and really enjoyed it. We promised to meet back in Japan because we are living in cities, which are 30 min drive distance.