Archive for July, 2009

Living Local with the Baraquios opened their latest season, filmed at Turtle Bay Resort, on July 26, 2009. The opening episode featured Turtle Bay’s fine dining restaurant, Twenty One Degrees North. In the restaurant named for its location (21 degrees north of the equator), Chef de Cuisine John Armstrong has created the finest in contemporary [...]

You decide to make Twenty One Degrees North your choice for fine dining. You park (free with validation) in Turtle Bay Resort’s parking lot. You walk through the lobby and turn left through a walkway. You experience the breathtaking waterfall and the lush oasis of tropical trees and plants that line the walkway to the [...]

The Tennis Center at Turtle Bay Resort, listed as one of Tennis Magazine’s “Top 50 Tennis Resorts”, is conducting a Junior Tennis Camp this week to the delight of 25 young players, ages 12 to 17, who are participating in the program. Under the management of Peter Burwash International, this Junior Camp is helping players [...]

Grant Kawasaki, host of the local television show Hawaiian Grown, recently met  Turtle Bay Resort’s Executive Chef Hector Morales and with the help of 21 Degrees North’s Chef de Cuisine John Armstrong,  they demonstrated how locally grown Waialua Chocolate is used to create delightful desserts. Your dining experience at 21 Degrees North begins as you [...]

MC Hammer brought his entire family to Turtle Bay Resort this past spring, where he got down on one knee at the Ola Restaurant and asked his wife of 23 years if she would marry the same man that she married 23 years ago. She agreed. The family got to learn the “haka”, a Maori [...]

Turtle Bay Resort has again made Travel+Leisure Magazine’s list of top hotels in Hawaii. For the past 14 years, Travel + Leisure Magazine has presented the “World’s Best Awards,” asking its approximately 1,000,000 subscribers to select their favorite hotels, spas, airlines, cruise lines, outfitters, cities and islands around the globe. This year, for the second [...]

Grant Kawasaki visited Turtle Bay Resort’s Executive Chef Hector Morales and Twenty One Degrees North’s Chef de Cuisine John Armstrong this week to film an episode of Hawaiian Grown TV, a program that features products grown and prepared in Hawaii. Nutrient-rich volcanic soil, abundant rainfall and plentiful sunshine make Oahu’s North Shore a perfect location [...]

Another fantastic 4th of July celebration was experienced at Turtle Bay Resort. Gates opened at 3:30 pm. The Marines brought in a K-9 unit that entertained the crowd as the dogs showed their phenomenal training in response to their handler’s commands. The Marines also brought in a landing raft that kids were allowed to crawl [...]