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OCC Member Profile: Members Alana Kobayashi Pakkala and Jonathan McManus have transformed an Outrigger neighbor.
03/01/2021
The Kaimana Beach Hotel opened in 1963, one year before the Outrigger Canoe Club settled into its new home a few doors down.
Designed by Detroit-based architecture firm Laucomer Associates, which had an office in Honolulu, it has long been a refuge from the hustle and bustle of Waikiki, set on an historic slice of land. Its venerable hau tree, with its branches creating a green canopy, famously shaded a lounging Robert Louis Stevenson (he completed his novel The Master of Ballantrae while in the islands), when he was a guest at the modest, ramshackle San Souci Hotel that operated there from 1893 to 1895.
After a recent change in ownership, the hotel reopened as the Kaimana Beach Hotel on Dec. 22, heralding a new era for the Club's iconic neighbor--with an all-local team, including two Club members, behind it's rebirth.
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