• High hotel costs • Accident waiting to happen • Number One • Card everyone • Simple luxury High hotel costs Ever wonder why the hotel occupancy is very low? I’m in the car rental industry, but yet all rental
• High hotel costs • Accident waiting to happen • Number One • Card everyone • Simple luxury
High hotel costs
Ever wonder why the hotel occupancy is very low?
I’m in the car rental industry, but yet all rental cars are pretty much sold out on a weekly basis. That is a fact!
Hotel room rates are completely out of control. Then add the various room taxes and more costs for the visitor at the hotel, except for the very rich who don’t care. So, the tourists are looking to cut costs and stay at bed & breakfast places or even someone’s house, rent a room only. Even a condo is cheaper. I know, I ask the visitors. The younger tourist camp at beaches or even mountains. Visitors complain of high hotel costs.
Ben Castillo, Kapa‘a
Accident waiting to happen
Regarding the ‘Oma‘o head-on vehicle accident that happened on Friday, it’s very sad when lives has been taken. Deepest sympathy goes out to the families.
How true it is what KPD traffic officer Mark Scribner said in The Garden Island that people should be more attentive while driving and vehicle operators should not be on cell phones, eating or tuning the radio.
However, could it be one of these two men was having a heart attack or some kind of medical problem when the accident occurred?
That area of ‘Oma‘o seems to take lots of lives in the past and present. Maybe the state traffic engineers should look into another alternative of traveling through that area. Perhaps a bypass road would be sufficient. There is available land upper north side of Kaumuali‘i Highway.
Let’s look into correcting the problem area before more lives are taken. It takes only seconds to lose control of a vehicle in that area because when heading westbound to the bridge it’s downhill and the bridge is narrow. At the bottom past the bridge there is a curve in the highway that a vehicle operator has to redirect and correct his or her westbound vehicle. Then on the other hand eastbound travelers are entering the bridge at high speed to go uphill.
That area of Kaumuali‘i highway will always be an accident waiting to happen.
Howard Tolbe, ‘Ele‘ele
Number One
I would like to respond to Michael Rothman’s recent Feb. 20 letter about the poor service he recently received at a restaurant.
I have not gone to a sit-down restaurant in over two years because of the poor service in general with wait staff at every restaurant I have been to on Kaua‘i and to out-of-sight prices.
Here’s my recommendation for Mr. Rothman for some high quality gourmet cheap local grindz.
I have found that the local grinds eateries like No. 1 BBQ & Chinese Restaurant in Kapa‘a next to Kojima offer some of the best Chinese local food on the island. For $5.99 including tax you get a two entree plate with fried rice or chow mein, or you can go half and half, with 12 buffet items to choose, coconut shrimp and shoyu chicken are amongst the best.
They also have an extensive menu besides the buffet line. Food is excellent, portions are generous, price is remarkable and the girls behind the counter treat everyone with the same aloha, no prejudice.
There is outdoor and indoor dining, seating is spacious so you’re not right on top of one another, and if you want to bring your own beer or wine no problem, and best of all no need to tip, although there is a tip jar at the register.
There is a reason that the No. 1 restaurant is called number one. Broke da mout, wop da jaw for da kine No. 1.
James “Kimo” Rosen, Kapa‘a
Card everyone
Although I feel sorry for the persons arrested for selling liquor to underage persons, there is a very simple solution which is already practiced at the airport and some other establishments in Tucson, Ariz.: check the identification of every customer.
By doing this, the server has no need to second guess anyone to determine if they are old enough to drink. Every customer is carded, no matter how much gray hair they show!
It works in Tucson. It would work on Kaua‘i.
Annelle Hazlett, Waimea
Simple luxury
As a senior citizen and a resident of Kaua‘i for the last 30 years I am often asked what I like best about Kaua‘i and what brought me here.
I suppose most people initially mention the tremendous beauty but for me the top of list lies elsewhere and I was reminded if it just the other day.
I attended a midnight showing of “The Wolfman” at the cinema. By my own choice I have not owned a car in the last eight years. At 2 a.m. I began to walk home, a distance almost to Wal-Mart.
I am not naive when it comes to street-smarts being raised in East L.A. Accessing the walk I found it safe, refreshing and free from any anxiety.
In today’s world, where can you find a place where such a simple luxury should be everyone’s right. Thank God we live Kaua‘i.
Eduardo Valenciana, Lihu‘e
