Don’t miss out! Turtle Bay in a fully equipped condo away from the craziness and traffic of Honolulu. Doug has provided all you need for fun. Enjoy. Keep it clean, wipe up after yourself, keep it free of bugs that want to join you that Doug battles to stay away. These are older condo’s built in 1970’s. I kept lanai and front door unlocked with only screen locked entire time I was there to keep it aired not musty smell with the trade wind sweet breeze. Super awesome locals are neighbors. The security is top flight and the neighbors who live there keep an eye out. I felt completely safe any time of the day or night wandering around the condo or in at or at the resort. Whereas the rest of Oahu is a crime spree of theft about to happen. Sheesh, one surf break beach in the South past Kapolei actually had signs posted, “High Theft Area”. Wow. But this has always been true of Hawaii since I began going to islands decades ago. The natives are restless and with good reason: read “Stealing A Kingdom” about the white missionaries who were there for property and money and jailed their last queen and destroyed , tried to destroy their loving culture of o’hana , aloha. Sheesh, for a hundred years they punished them for speaking their native language , banned their religion. Most of native Oahu are Asian Filipino Japanese Polynesian. Even if you are one of these but not native Hawaiian with reasonable blood ancestry DO NOT GO TO Waianae side , for sure after dark. For safety reasons, for sure if you are White don’t go. At all times be aware of your surroundings. Do not lock things in a car or bury them at the beach. You are watched. It takes them 90 seconds to pop a lock and climb through your car into trunk to and clean it out and disappear in an old junker with no plates. This I witnessed at the McDonalds next to Polynesian center in daylight . And somehow Hawaii is allowing grifters to operate Truffoire in Haleiwa, some locals call them Gypsies. They are Israeli (I’m not prejudiced cause I’m Jewish). Google it or I prefer non tracking DuckDuckGo it. The locals cringe when they reel in another victim same as they cringe and are amazed SurfnSea schleps out the same old tired chipped board as a rental and are amazed it’s still being brought to Puana by another tourist for a shockingly high price. For board rental go to Volcom across street - brand new shiny boards for $130/week not the crazy $175 Surf n Sea for garbage. Shop Rip Curl where I bought my son the coolest rash guard shirt, Cholo’s for Mexican. Excellent surfing and when we can’t do 15 plus feet waves or even past five feet and it’s fall winter , drive south for the day to surf. Use Surfline.com for reports or Honolulu Star advertiser which I got daily left a door at 6 am from lady who delivers next door- insist to pay her. Ummm, Hawaii is losing its beaches. Last week the paper ran an article stating that in 10 years Waikiki won’t have a beach at all without intervention- they are sandbagging and hauling it in. I wonder if this is where all the sand on the north shore and windward side is disappearing to. Go NOW while Hawaii still has beaches. Doug has made an effort to give you comfort and style and toys and towels and lots of O’Hana items left from others ...I added to cabinet olive oil and bought but didn’t need to buy laundry soap. It’s nice to stop on way up H2 outta airport at Wal Mart in Mililani town to stock cheap but then it’s nice to know what’s needed. Malama grocery store in Haleiwa will surprise you with their upscale items. Always foodland. The one in Laie is cleaner than surfer’s Sunset Beach Foodland. Check out when Hawaiian Host Macadamia Nut, Kona Coffee amd or coconut chocolates on sale for $3.99 at Long’s drigs(they refused to change their names to CVS on Oahu). Get down to Aloha Stadium for their Hawaiian items a sixth or less of the price of all the stiff Hawaiian for sale because I heard from vendors it’s going bye-bye. Am investor developer wants the property. Why pay $20 when u can pay $4, that is if you want those lava lava’s, t-shirts, Hawaii logo luggage, hats, wall hangings, bags, everything touristy you might find in Honolulu or Haleiwa , except the totally cool unique items at some of the North Shore shops that are not any where else. Or best plan, don’t shop , just beach. Be sure to check out the difference of the sand windward (powdery-fine) side versus north shore(courser-bigger bits), for leward side-Waianae side sand I wouldn’t venture to that side but go out past Waialua to Ka’ ena Point state park for rocks and sand - big chunky). I used to take some home and display labels but now that there are almost no beaches, I don’t take any sand home. Kahuku farms side of the road fruit!!! Yum. I’d buy $40 at a time so I got the bags for $4 instead of $5, of fresh chopped up papaya, mango, star fruit, guava, coconut, dragon fruit, leechee when in season, watermelon, amd be sure to eat the local creamy little bananas- these are not the Dole big Mainalnd bananas. Shrimp truck going toward Laie from Turtle Bay. I’m vegan mostly amd for sure don’t eat hamburger meat but my son does: if that’s you don’t miss Seven Brothers on Laie. Don’t miss Sunset Beach’s Ted’s Bakery: as good as anything you will find Montecito, Tivuron CA etc. he’s from Cordon Blu something. Oh dear. I have a lot more to say but my tastes may not be yours and I don’t want...