Started off the day with getting a ham quiche from a pastry / drip coffee place at the hotel, plus a latte from Lappert’s.

After took a long and non trivially priced uber to the north side of the island to Kualoa Ranch.

I ended up booking the Jurassic Adventure tour. Here are the highlights:

-Kualoa ranch has Kualoa Mountain behind it (hence its name).

-First stop was Jurassic World (the gate where the two kids in a jeep crash through).

-Second area pointed out the bunkers used in WWII by the military.

-The third area pointed out was the u-shaped military tunnel that goes through the mountain.

-The fourth stop was another Jurassic World scene.

-The fifth stop was from Jurassic Park (most of it was shot in Kaui, but this particular one was shot in Oahu).

-Sixth stop was Godzilla foot prints (they were 8 feet deep originally, but they filled them up since).

-There was also a shot in Pearl Harbor that was shot here that we drove by.

-The next stop was an area also from Jurassic World

-The final stop was also from Jurassic world

Overall I liked the tour as it gives you good coverage of the ranch and the movies that were shot there. Also great views! However I think it could have easily been under 2 hours instead of 2.5. Also waiting for an uber to pick me up took 30 minutes!

After decided to finish the Pearl Harbor Musesum (so yes Ubers there from Kualoa Ranch) and go to the USS Bowfin. Took only 20 minutes to go through the sub. 

Afterwards we explored around the Waikiki resort area (where our hotel is located. I will say that there are really nice resorts in the area. One of them is the Sheraton. We walked through it to get to cocktail bar called Mai Tai bar. Details can be found here:

https://food.johnmatienzo.com/2025/11/27/mai-tai-bar/

We then headed to another resort I would consider staying at, the Outrigger Reef Waikiki Beach Resort, which had the restaurant we were getting dinner at, called Monkeypod. Details here:

https://food.johnmatienzo.com/2025/11/28/monkeypod/

And that pretty much wrapped up the day. Next time would try to find maybe a rooftop bar in the Waikiki resort area.