This bar is among the restaurants located in the mall. They make the best Mai Tais I've tasted. The food is very good too. There is live music and there are two happy hour times. A great time was had by all!!

I recommend this shopping center because has lots of Hawaiian stores such as ABC Stores, Crazy Shirts, and Hilo Hattie, and such restaurants as Bubba Gump, California Pizza Kitchen, and Morton's. The center also has such familiar department stores as Macy's, Neiman Marcus, and Sears. In addition, there a lot of buses running between it and Waikiki.

I had been using "the bus" for my destinations this day and had no problems following the numbers and destinations, until I got to the shopping center. I needed to pick up a few things as gifts, and if I happened to find something for myself, even better. I found the shopping center confusing - as a veteran mall-goer, it was disconcerting. There is a staffed post office, so I was able to send a postcard to my mom with a local postmark (she likes these things). From the directory, I could not figure where the people could walk - it is one thing to figure out where the store is, but another to figure out how to get there. The mall felt dirty and dark to me. I really only found one store I came for, but I did manage to find the other items I was hunting for. I know (from a TV show I saw before the trip that inspired me to go to this mall) that the mall is nice, open, and well lit and has nice stores, but I didn't find them. I was a bit short on time, so didn't have the luxury of exploring too much - these nice stores could be there, just not in the part of the mall that I found.

Staying on Waikiki Beach meant that the shopping was targeted to tourists, or very high-end (Channel, Gucci, and Prada), and the prices similar. Did I get what I was looking for at the price I was willing to pay? Sure, but for the effort, I would have spent more time and similar money in Waikiki.

Leaving the shopping center on the bus was also confusing, as the number I was on from Iolani Palace or the numbers that I know drop off next to my hotel did not pick up at the center as far as I could tell - the way directions are given on the island make sense, but only if you know where you are coming from and where you are. So I took a different number (no. 8) and had to walk a couple blocks back to the hotel. (There was no schedule or map, so I didn't know just how close the bus would eventually go - I got out where I recognized the location.) During my stay, I had been walking between my hotel, the convention center, the beach, and the streets in between. Unfortunately, I did not go more inland, so I would not recognize the buildings or street names/numbers. Not all the bus drivers were nice and helpful (some are though), so use caution or find a schedule.

Ala Moana Shopping Center is a commercially successful, popular, busy mall for the tourist as well as the local. Local attractions include the Visitor Information center, lockers, department stores, shops, services, the food court, and restaurants. This location also serves as one of the major bus transfer points so a lot of people go through here.

A wi-fi freespot is located by the Apple store on the second level.

Monday to Saturday 9:30am to 9pm, Sunday 10am to 7pm

The bus: from Waikiki, nos. 8, 19, 20, 42 or 58; from North Shore, no. 52; and from the international airport, nos. 19 or 20.

Take the Ala Moana Shopping Trolley, the pink line trolley with eight stops in Waikiki. It stops every 15 minutes Monday to Saturday 9:30am-9pm and Sunday 9:30am to 7pm. You need the exact fare of $2.

A very large shopping center much like one would find on the mainland. But what we liked was the food selection for travel weary tourists that was affordable and quick. The food court had great selections and lots of room to eat.