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Royal Hawaiian Hotel

Posted on: March 4, 2009 at 1:00 a.m.
Royal Hawaiian remains a community icon
Waikiki's original luxury hotel � the Royal Hawaiian hotel � closed for seven months � and reopened $60 million later with updated bathrooms, a darker shade of pink and a focus on preserving a slice of a more elegant era of travel.

Posted on: March 4, 2009 at 1:00 a.m.
Royal employees are happy to be back to work
When The Royal Hawaiian closed for seven months of renovations last year, work stopped for 471 people � 418 of them unionized employees � and when the resort re-opened, an impressive 93 percent of the workers returned.

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Story of the Pink Palace: A timeline of the Royal Hawaiian (Mar 04, 2009)
1924: Castle and Cooke pledged $200,000 for construction of luxury resort in Waikiki in partnership with Matson Navigation and Territorial Hotel Co. The New York firm of warren and Wetmore was hired to design the hotel.

The Pink Palace has role in Hollywood history, too (Mar 04, 2009)
Look through a guest list of the Royal Hawaiian since 1927 and you'll find movie stars, millionaires and presidents.

Royal Grove coconut trees reborn into 'functional art' (Mar 04, 2009)
Even the trees of the Royal Grove told a historic story and some will live on � shaped into pahu drums by a master Hawaiian craftsman.

Grandmother Robins' visions of grandeur still resonate in song (Mar 04, 2009)
Roy Robins strolls the grounds of the Royal Hawaiian three days a week knowing that his grandmother � composer Mary Pula'a Robins � walked the same paths while writing the “Royal Hawaiian Hotel” song for the 1927 opening.

Employees key to success for Royal's first woman GM (Mar 04, 2009)
The first woman general manager of The Royal Hawaiian is a Kailua native with more than 25 years of hotel industry experience.

Royal employees are happy to be back to work (Mar 04, 2009)
When the Royal Hawaiian closed for seven months of renovations last year, work stopped for 471 people � 418 of them unionized employees � and when the resort reopened, an impressive 93 percent of the workers returned.