travel42 Hotel Review: Lotus Honolulu at Diamond Head

Lotus Honolulu at Diamond Head travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

This unassuming whitewashed building is a stone's throw from the emu cages at the zoo and also near the Waikiki Aquarium. Anchoring the south end of Waikiki (a five-minute stroll from the action), adjacent to tony Sans Souci Beach, it is next to the more conservative but overall superior Kaimana Beach Hotel.

The setting is surprisingly residential, quite unlike the Waikiki Beach properties where nightlife and traffic are right outside the hotel. A limited...