Makemake ʻia ʻo Kahala Hotel & Resort i kahi e hūnā ai ʻo Hawaii no nā pelekikena a me nā mea hanohano

HONOLULU, HI (ʻAukake 19, 2008) - Ua kipa aku nei ka moho Pelekikena Presumptive Demokalaka ʻo Barack Obama i The Kahala Hotel & Resort, e hui pū ana me kahi hui hanohano o nā VIP i hehi ma luna o ke kapeta ʻulaʻula o Kahala. Mai ka wā i wehe ʻia ai i ka makahiki 1964, ʻo Kahala ka hōkele makemake ʻia ma Hawaii no ke kipa ʻana i nā pelekikena US, nā aliʻi a me nā poʻo o ka mokuʻāina.

Ua noho kēlā me kēia pelekikena ʻo U. mai Lyndon B. Johnson ma The Kahala. Ua kipa aku ʻo Richard Nixon i ka makahiki 1972, noho ʻo Gerald Ford ma ka hōkele e hele ana i Kina, a ʻai pū ʻo Jimmy Carter ma aneʻi. Ua ʻauʻau ʻo Ronald Reagan ma kahakai o ka hōkele ma 1984. Ua hōʻea ʻo George HW Bush ma o ka helikopa ma ke kahua kolepa ʻo Waialae Country Club e pili kokoke ana i ka ʻauamo ʻana i nā kaʻa me kahi kaʻa kaʻa. Ua aloha aku nā keiki o ka hōkele iā Bill Clinton me kahi lei. Ua hoʻomaha ʻo George W. Bush ma The Kahala i kahi manawa kū iki mai ʻAsia mai.

Noho nā VIP i ka 1500-square foot Presidential Suite, me nā manaʻo o Koko Head Crater, ka Moana Pākīpika a me Diamond Head. Hoʻonohonoho hou ʻia ia i kahi kaila nohona Hawaiʻi nani a e loaʻa ana kahi keʻena ākea, lumi hoʻokipa a me kahi lumi moe nui ke wehe hou ʻia ia i Kēkēmapa 2008.

ʻO nā malihini hanohano ʻē aʻe o The Kahala me Queen Elizabeth II a me Prince Phillip, Emperor Hirohito, Prince Rainier lāua ʻo Princess Grace, Indira Gandhi a me Dalai Lama. Ua kākau ʻo Prince Charles lāua ʻo ke Kamāliʻiwahine Diana i 100 mau lumi no ko lāua huakaʻi pāʻina ma 1985

"Aia ʻo Kahala i kahi noho kaʻawale a hanohano, a mahalo nui kā mākou poʻe malihini VIP i ka pilikino a me ka manaʻo palekana i ko mākou hōkele," wahi a ka luna hoʻomalu ʻo John Blanco. "ʻO kā mākou limahana aloha, lawelawe pono ʻole, nā hale hoʻokipa, a me nā wahi kū kahakai kū hoʻokahi e hoʻolilo ai ʻo The Kahala i wahi huna loa no Hawaiʻi."