The Royal Hawaiian Hotel

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The Royal Hawaiian Hotel is a hotel in Waikīkī , Honolulu , Oahu , Hawaii , USA .

The 5-star hotel with 527 rooms is located on Kalākaua Avenue, directly on a private beach. It was built in the so-called "Spanish-Moorish style" with bell towers etc. and opened on February 1, 1927 . The historic building is complemented by a modern tower , the Royal Tower . Because of its bright pink paint, it was nicknamed the Pink Palace of the Pacific ( The Pink Palace of the Pacific ).

It is the symbol of the island of Oahu . Before the Second World War it was a popular holiday hotel for Hollywood stars, during the war it was temporarily the residence of President Franklin D. Roosevelt , which is why it was also known as the Western White House .

The Royal Hawaiian has been filmed in several films and TV series: discovered Hawaii in April 1961 , 1977 in Charlie's Angels and 1986 in Murder is her hobby .

The bar at The Royal Hawaiian Hotel claims to have been the first to prepare Mai Tai in the 1920s.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Western White House would be welcome. In: The Honolulu Star Advertiser. November 7, 2008, archived from the original on December 10, 2008 ; accessed on December 3, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Filming locations for Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961). Retrieved December 4, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Filming locations for "Charlie's Angels" Angels in Paradise (1977). In: IMDb. Retrieved December 4, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Filming locations for "Murder, She Wrote" Magnum on Ice: Part 2 (1986). In: IMDb. Retrieved December 4, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Perfect Drinks

Coordinates: 21 ° 16 ′ 39 "  N , 157 ° 49 ′ 44"  W.