It’s very easy to overlook how businesses are ran when their marketing strategy is on point
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Erin Maidlow
8 years ago
Save The Beach Boys! Don’t let dive Oahu ruin this tradition and culture!
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Andrea D Grabow
8 years ago
Give the Hawaiians back their beach boy contract!! Tourists do not want cabana boys like Cancun or the Caribbean! They want local boys, the REAL people, the same Hawaiians that have been doing the job perfectly for years and years! They are skilled watermen and women that take care of the tourists, ocean, land and our beaches! Tourists want the culture of Hawai'i not the same homogenized service they can get in the rest of the world. Hawai'i is special and made that way because of it's Hawaiian people and culture! This new mainland ompany will not do Waikiki beach justice.
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Eli
8 years ago
I learned how to surf from beach boys. They are invaluable to anyone who wants to learn - culture included. You can't lose the beach boys of Waikiki or you lose part of Hawai'i.
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Jenna Smith
8 years ago
Keep Waiks Waiks
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Anonymous
8 years ago
CHEEEE! NO COME OVAH HERE AND TINK YOU CAN JUST COME TO OUR ISLAND AND TO TAKE OVER A SPECIAL PLACE THAT LEGENDS HELPED AND TEACH PEOPLE TO SURF!
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Brent
8 years ago
Unreal what’s happening. Haole doesn’t know what he getting into.
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Elene
8 years ago
Waikiki Beach Boys forever!
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James Zanoli
8 years ago
Locals only
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Diane Takayama
8 years ago
TRAGIC!!
Please save the beach oys and their Mana!! That is what people have come to experience for generations!! My late husband Donald, Rabbit Kakai, Cowboy, the Duke and all the Watermen inshrined ar the Waikiki Canoe club would be mortified!! Please don't ihui the whole operation!! Many people have made a living in many ways from surfing lessons, diving, fishing, and the longing to live this kind of life. Over the past 50 years, it has become a bargaining chip for big business and moved the native Hawaiians to places that are in some cases uninhabitable, to grow the tourism industry .Why do the islands and it's Ohana keep being pushed further and further away to accommodate more and more businesses not in best interests of everyone. Compromise. Greed is the epitome of not being or seeing beyond yourself by exploitation! Please keep this heritage alive!
Many Mahalos for reading!!
Diane Sidwell-Takayama
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Jay Drake
8 years ago
The Beach Boys are some of the original Surfers going way back. They are a large part of the reason that surfing is so popular in Waikiki. They are an intricate part of the fabric of Waikiki. Replacing them with corporate haole operation is a bad idea. I am amainland haole and even I recognize this. Whoever awarded this contract to the new guy is making a bad mistake. It will have long-term negative consequences.
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sean rolland
8 years ago
what is waikiki, more importantly, what is HAWAII without the presence of NATIVE HAWAIIANS & their CULTURE ???
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Reggie Padillo
8 years ago
Keep Hawaii Hawaii.
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Jun Jo
8 years ago
what makes hawaii hawaii? the people , stories , knowledge , history. slowly the ones in power are taking this away in return they are killing the spirit of the islands and the aloha spirit that has been passed since day 1.
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Loretta Martinez
8 years ago
Stop changing Waikiki! The high end shops, International Market Place now the BeachBoys! No!
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Bruce Smaha
8 years ago
been coming to Hawaii (Waikiki) every year since 1982. The Beach Boys are a vital reason for our visit. They have been our Ohana for many many years and have become very close and personal friends. Please retain their culture and way of life foe friends like us and new daily tourist. They are a big part of Hawaii's Aloha.
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Daren martin
8 years ago
Don't award this new contract
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Hilary Alexander
8 years ago
Please support and keep our beach boys. This is an important part of Hawaiian history and culture.
Hewa!!!!
Stop Stealing My Culture!!!!!
It’s very easy to overlook how businesses are ran when their marketing strategy is on point
Save The Beach Boys! Don’t let dive Oahu ruin this tradition and culture!
Give the Hawaiians back their beach boy contract!! Tourists do not want cabana boys like Cancun or the Caribbean! They want local boys, the REAL people, the same Hawaiians that have been doing the job perfectly for years and years! They are skilled watermen and women that take care of the tourists, ocean, land and our beaches! Tourists want the culture of Hawai'i not the same homogenized service they can get in the rest of the world. Hawai'i is special and made that way because of it's Hawaiian people and culture! This new mainland ompany will not do Waikiki beach justice.
I learned how to surf from beach boys. They are invaluable to anyone who wants to learn - culture included. You can't lose the beach boys of Waikiki or you lose part of Hawai'i.
Keep Waiks Waiks
CHEEEE! NO COME OVAH HERE AND TINK YOU CAN JUST COME TO OUR ISLAND AND TO TAKE OVER A SPECIAL PLACE THAT LEGENDS HELPED AND TEACH PEOPLE TO SURF!
Unreal what’s happening. Haole doesn’t know what he getting into.
Waikiki Beach Boys forever!
Locals only
TRAGIC!! Please save the beach oys and their Mana!! That is what people have come to experience for generations!! My late husband Donald, Rabbit Kakai, Cowboy, the Duke and all the Watermen inshrined ar the Waikiki Canoe club would be mortified!! Please don't ihui the whole operation!! Many people have made a living in many ways from surfing lessons, diving, fishing, and the longing to live this kind of life. Over the past 50 years, it has become a bargaining chip for big business and moved the native Hawaiians to places that are in some cases uninhabitable, to grow the tourism industry .Why do the islands and it's Ohana keep being pushed further and further away to accommodate more and more businesses not in best interests of everyone. Compromise. Greed is the epitome of not being or seeing beyond yourself by exploitation! Please keep this heritage alive! Many Mahalos for reading!! Diane Sidwell-Takayama
The Beach Boys are some of the original Surfers going way back. They are a large part of the reason that surfing is so popular in Waikiki. They are an intricate part of the fabric of Waikiki. Replacing them with corporate haole operation is a bad idea. I am amainland haole and even I recognize this. Whoever awarded this contract to the new guy is making a bad mistake. It will have long-term negative consequences.
what is waikiki, more importantly, what is HAWAII without the presence of NATIVE HAWAIIANS & their CULTURE ???
Keep Hawaii Hawaii.
what makes hawaii hawaii? the people , stories , knowledge , history. slowly the ones in power are taking this away in return they are killing the spirit of the islands and the aloha spirit that has been passed since day 1.
Stop changing Waikiki! The high end shops, International Market Place now the BeachBoys! No!
been coming to Hawaii (Waikiki) every year since 1982. The Beach Boys are a vital reason for our visit. They have been our Ohana for many many years and have become very close and personal friends. Please retain their culture and way of life foe friends like us and new daily tourist. They are a big part of Hawaii's Aloha.
Don't award this new contract
Please support and keep our beach boys. This is an important part of Hawaiian history and culture.